President recognizes Friedrich Kuhne as consul of Principality of Reuss-Greitz at New York. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 13 August 1862, 2d ed., 2:4.

Judge Christian Roselius, Louisiana Unionist, consults with President, Secs. Seward and Stanton and Postmaster Gen. Blair regarding conditions in Louisiana and conduct of Gen. John S. Phelps. Butler, Correspondence, 2:207.

Lincoln writes Stanton : "Gov. Morton is one of our best Governors, but I do not think he would be the best Military commander" for Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 11 August 1862, CW, 5:367.