President appoints general officers for new Kentucky brigade under command of General William T. Ward. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 18 September 1861, 3:6; National Republican (Washington, DC), 19 September 1861, 2:1.

Minister for Denmark pays visit of ceremony at 12 M. Seward to Lincoln, 18 September 1861, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Cabinet meets morning and afternoon to hear reports of Gen. Meigs and Postmaster Gen. Blair, who have studied conditions at St. Louis under Fremont regime. N.Y. Times, 19 September 1861.

Miles J. Fletcher, superintendent of public instruction, hands Lincoln report from Gov. Morton (Ind.) on Indiana regiments. Morton to Lincoln, 16 September 1861, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

President alerts secretaries of war and navy that joint expedition agreed upon "must be ready to move by the first of, or very early in, October." Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron, 18 September 1861, CW, 4:527-28.