March from Beardstown begins. Some 150 soldiers without horses are ordered to go by boat to Yellow Banks. Gov. Reynolds and 1,500 mounted militia camp for night three miles east of Rushville.Reynolds Order and Letter Book, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.

[William F. Berry gives Eli C. Blankenship conditional deed for $250 to west half of Lot No. 1 south of Main Street in New Salem. "The condition of the above deed is such. If A. Lincoln shall satisfy the demands of a note by him executed and endorsed by J. R. Herndon bearing date April —, 1833, payable to E. C. Blankenship, the above to be null and void." Deed is acknowledged by Berry May 23.Deed book F, 440.]

[The Sangamon County Circuit Court hears Van Bergen v. Lincoln et al.. Green, the only defendant whom the sheriff has served with a summons, fails to appear, the court orders a judgment by default and awards Van Bergen $204.82 with $18.42 in damages. The court orders a "scire facias issue to the said Abram Lincoln and William F. Berry requiring them to show cause . . . why they should not be made a party to this judgment."Photocopy; Record B, 336.

Only $154 of the $204.82 and $18.42 damages awarded against Green is due Van Bergen, the remainder is due Reuben Radford.]

[Stuart & Lincoln represent Daniel Beeman in Beeman v. Thompson, a debt case in the McLean County Circuit Court. They dismiss the case and Lincoln notes the case in firm's fee book. Record; Fee Book owned by Mrs. Edna Orendorff Macpherson, Springfield, Ill.]

[Champaign Circuit Court convenes for two-day term at Urbana.]

Lincoln buys half-pound gunpowder tea (75¢), and 31¢ worth of whalebones, hooks and eyes.Irwin Ledger and Journal.

Lincoln writes, and evidently mails to Pekin, bill of exceptions in Stevenson and Wardwell v. Garrett and wife, petition to enforce mechanics lien.Photocopy.

DeWitt County Circuit Court convenes. Lincoln and Stuart file defendants' plea in Moore v. Grosh et al.Bushnell et al. v. Knapp, chancery, is continued on motion of Moore, defendants' attorney. Lincoln is for complainant. Record; Files.

He writes and files, for defendants, plea in Moore v. Sampson and Sampson. Photocopy.

Lincoln lays on clerk's table memorial of heirs of Abraham Tipton, previously presented to House in 1835 and referred to Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.Journal.

[Judge David Davis opens the two-day De Witt County Circuit Court with forty-eight cases on the docket. Orders and Decrees, 29-30 April 1852, Chancery Record 1A, 433-54, De Witt County Circuit Court, De Witt County Courthouse, Clinton, IL.]

In Stephens v. Veimont & Whisler, in which Lincoln and Parker represent defendants, jury finds their clients not guilty of forcible entry and detainer. In criminal case—People v. Shaffer & Shaffer—Lincoln obtains order setting aside defendants' default and forfeiture of bond on payment of all costs to date. Defendants post new bonds of $500 each for appearance next term. Indictment is for cheating and fraud. Record.

Lincoln writes and signs replication and amends bill in Davenport v. Sconce and DonCarlos. Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln returns from circuit, and deposits $100 in Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Marine Bank Ledger.

In People v. Abraham Nash, alias Yankee Sullivan, change of venue from Logan County, Sangamon Circuit Court overrules motion of defendant's attorneys, made April 27, 1859, that case be stricken from docket. Defense then moves indictment be quashed. Record.

Lincoln writes to U.S. Senator Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, regarding the upcoming presidential election. Trumbull asked for Lincoln's opinion on the Republicans' chances of carrying Illinois against the Democrats' presumptive nominee U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln responds, "I will be entirely frank. The taste is in my mouth a little; and this, no doubt, disqualifies me, to some extent, to form correct opinions." Regarding U.S. Supreme Court Justice John McLean, Edward Bates, of Missouri, and U.S. Senator William H. Seward, of New York, Lincoln writes, "I think McLean is stronger . . . than either S. or B; and I think S. the weakest of the three." Lyman Trumbull to Abraham Lincoln, 24 April 1860, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of the Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, 29 April 1860, CW, 4:45-46.

Congressman Charles H. Van Wyck (N.Y.) asks Lincoln for temporary active duty while awaiting arrival of regiment. Van Wyck to Nicolay, 29 April 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

New York committee calls upon President to state "with great clearness that the people were absolutely determined on maintaining their Government." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 May 1861, 5:1; National Republican (Washington, DC), 30 April 1861, 2:3-4.

Mayor Berret (Washington) makes formal call at White House. National Intelligencer, 1 March 1861.

Lincoln has picture made on White House lawn with citizen-soldiers of Cassius M. Clay Battalion. LL, No. 1450.

Borrows from Library of Congress "Placier Times and Transcript, part 2, 1855." Borrowers' Ledger 1859-62, 350, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. [San Francisco, Daily Placer Times and Transcript, 16 June 1851-17 December 1855.]

Writes Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles: "You will please to have as strong a War Steamer as you can conveniently put on that duty, to cruise upon the Potomac, and to look in upon, and, if practicable, examine the Bluff and vicinity, at what is called the White House [Va.], once or twice per day." Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles, 29 April 1861, CW, 4:348-49.

President "withholds" from House of Representatives reasons for evacuation of Jacksonville, Fla. Boston Advertiser, 30 April 1862.

President requests former Gov. Newell (N.J.) to adjust trouble about provost marshal or come to Washington. Abraham Lincoln to William A. Newell, 29 April 1863, CW, 6:191.

President Lincoln writes to the commanding officer at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, and requests consideration for John B. S. Todd, who is related to Lincoln's wife, Mary. After recently completing a term as delegate in Congress, Todd prepares to return to the Dakota Territory. Lincoln directs, "[G]ive him & his family such protection as you properly can in the event it becomes necessary. You will also afford them such facilities for crossing & recrossing the river there as are usually employed." Abraham Lincoln to Commanding Officer at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, 29 April 1863, Inserted in John Fiske, The Presidents of America, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.

President forwards to Senate information on affairs in Nevada Territory. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, 29 April 1864, CW, 7:322-23.

Tells Sec. Welles circumstances of his giving pass to Martha Todd White, half-sister of Mrs. Lincoln. Welles, Diary.

Spends part of evening at War Dept. Browning, Diary.