President interviews Col. George Crook representing Irish regiment being organized in Pennsylvania. Stuart to Lincoln, 24 August 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Addresses two letters of congratulation to Queen Isabel II of Spain on births in family. Abraham Lincoln to Isabel II, 25 August 1862, CW, 5:392; Abraham Lincoln to Isabel II, 25 August 1862, CW, 5:393.