Sens. Wade (Ohio) and Chandler (Mich.) again call on Lincoln demanding removal of Gen. Meade. Thomas Harry Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), 340.

Lincoln sends note to Gen. Schenck (resigned) as explanation of embarrassing incident at reception last evening. Abraham Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck, 23 March 1864, CW, 7:262.

Answers request of Gen. Schurz for permission to join political campaign: "Nor could I be justified to detail any officer to the political campaign during its continuance, and then return him to the Army." Abraham Lincoln to Carl Schurz, 23 March 1864, CW, 7:262-63.