Senators Lyman Trumbull (Ill.) and James R. Doolittle (Wis.) interview Lincoln regarding appointments. Lyman Trumbull to Abraham Lincoln, 18 July 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, 18 July 1862, CW, 5:332.

[Mrs. Lincoln, Robert, and Tad return to Washington from their northern tour. National Republican (Washington, DC), 21 July 1862, 2:2.]