Archbishop Hughes attended by Secretary of State William H. Seward pays a morning visit to White House. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 23 August 1862, 2d ed., 2:1.

Lincoln answers Horace Greeley's editorial, "The Prayer of Twenty Millions": "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it." Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862, CW, 5:388-89; National Intelligencer, 23 August 1862; Evening Star (Washington, DC), 23 August 1862, 2d ed., 2:1.

Lincoln informs Secretary of State Gideon Welles that a record is kept of recruits answering late call. Over 18,000 reached Washington in one week. Welles, Diary.