| Monday, October 7, 1861.Washington,
DC. | President asks Gen. Samuel R. Curtis to answer
question: "Ought Gen. Fremont to be relieved from, or retained in his present
command?" Abraham
Lincoln to Samuel R. Curtis, 7 October 1861,
CW, 4:549-50. Calls
special meeting composed of several cabinet members and asst. secretaries of
war and navy. N.Y. Times, 8 October 1861.
In afternoon confers with Secs. Seward and Cameron. Abraham
Lincoln to William H. Seward, 7 October 1861,
CW, 4:551. |