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Friday, June 10, 1864.+-

Washington, DC.

President hands John Hay note for Gen. Rosecrans at St. Louis, before Hay is out of bed. Hay, Letters and Diary.

Issues order: "Major John Hay, Assistant Adjutant General, will repair at once to St. Louis Missouri, and having executed my verbal instructions will return to his station here." Order to John Hay, 10 June 1864, CW, 7:386.

Interviews O. H. Browning at night relative to appointing Mrs. Abraham Jonas postmaster of Quincy, Ill. [See June 2, 1864.] Browning, Diary.

Sends Prof. Henry results of efforts to get pardon for Pvt. McCarthy. Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Henry, 10 June 1864, CW, 7:385.

Acknowledges receipt of Triennial Congregational Convention resolutions regarding day of national prayer, and atrocities committed on colored troops. Abraham Lincoln to Julian M. Sturtevant, 10 June 1864, CW, 7:388.