President calls conference with Secs. Seward and Welles regarding British vessel "Arago." Later reads two confidential dispatches relating to Chickamauga. Welles, Diary.

Alerts Gen. Rosecrans that two small corps are on their way under command of Gen. Hooker. Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans, 28 September 1863, CW, 6:486.

Receives invitation to opening of new Grover Threatre with privilege of setting date and play. Grover to Lincoln, 28 September 1863, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Mrs. Lincoln and Tad arrive home in afternoon from New York. Washington Chronicle, 30 September 1863.