| Sunday, July 31, 1864.Fortress Monroe, VA and En route
to Washington, DC. | President at Fortress Monroe to confer with General Ulysses S. Grant. Welles, Diary, 1 August 1864. Waits at wharf for Grant to come from Gen. Butler's house. Mrs. Butler does not see President or Mrs. Lincoln and ladies.
Butler, Correspondence, 4:566. Lincoln receives Grant aboard U.S.S. Baltimore at 10 A.M. for conference. Begins return trip to Washington at 3 P.M. Washington Chronicle, 2 August 1864. Grant and members of staff accompany President to Norfolk, where they spend some time at the Navy Yard. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 1 August 1864, 3d ed., 2:1. |