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Tuesday, June 25, 1861.+-

Washington, DC.

President, Mrs. Lincoln, and party attend, by invitation, funeral of a private conducted with military honors and Hungarian obsequies at camp of Garibaldi Guard. National Republican (Washington, DC), 26 June 1861, 2:5; Evening Star (Washington, DC), 26 June 1861, 3:2.

With Mary Lincoln reviews the Thirty-Seventh New York Volunteer regiment, encamped near the Garibaldi Guard. National Republican (Washington, DC), 26 June 1861, 2:5; Evening Star (Washington, DC), 26 June 1861, 3:2.

Lincoln notifies Marshal Ward H. Lamon that companies recruited from Virginians will be mustered in immediately. Abraham Lincoln to Ward H. Lamon, 25 June 1861, CW, 4:416-17.

Calls conference with Generals Winfield Scott, Montgomery C. Meigs, and John A. Dix, and cabinet to consider military situation. "The President expresses a strong desire to bag [Gen. Thomas J. ('Stonewall')] Jackson [(CSA)]." Extracts from Montgomery C. Meigs Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.