It took hours of time each week committed by the president to sit for portrait artist Francis Carpenter as he prepared his canvas rendering of the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to Lincoln's Cabinet.. Young Tad was no longer getting in the artist's way and in general, seemed to take a liking to the long term visitor at the Whited House. Tad was also excited to learn this week that a gift of a new pony was being sent to the White House.
In several meetings this week with Secretary of the Navy Giddeon Welles, it was determined that the Union Navy needed more sailors. By week's end, the president had signed an order for 12,000 of the army's men to be transferred to the navy.
The Lincolns hosted a splendid White House reception well attended by the general populous in spite of a snow storm. He also informed Congress of a new treaty with the Shawnee Indians.
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