<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-01'>Sunday, March 1, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "Whig prospects were never so bright as now," writes Lincoln to Stuart.
            Lincoln fears he may "not be permitted to be a candidate" for legislature, but is
            jubilant over subscriptions to "The Old Soldier." He lists Van Buren men who have come
            out for Harrison.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A216' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T.
                  Stuart</xref>, 1 March 1840, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:206-7.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1840-03-02'>Monday,
  March 2, 1840.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Sangamon Circuit Court opens for 14-day term. Lincoln
  represents Rhoda Hart, executrix in three cases against Penny &amp; Co.,
  Harrison &amp; Co., and McIlvain &amp; Co. All are continued. 
  <name type='case' key='L03742'>Kendall v. Hardin &amp;
  Reagor</name> is continued with summons to defendants. Bond in 
  <name type='case' key='L04847'>Tydings &amp; Widney v. Hathaway
  &amp; Fullenwider</name> is filed, as is affidavit written by Lincoln in 
  <name type='case' key='L04358'>Ragsdell &amp; Ashbury v.
  Spear</name> that plaintiffs are unable to pay costs. 
  <name type='case' key='L02685'>Bevans v. James N. Brown et
  al.</name> is dismissed by agreement at defendant's cost. Lincoln is appointed
  guardian, and files answer as guardian in 
  <name type='case' key='L04281'>Peter Poindexter v. Eliza
  Underwood et al.</name> 
            <bibl default='NO'>Record;
  Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Third issue of "The Old Soldier" is
  published.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-03'>Tuesday, March 3, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, attorney for defendant, confesses judgment for $357.43 in <name type='case' key='L02680'>Billon v. Porter</name>, and $123.31 in <name type='case' key='L04002'>Logan v. Francis</name>. Lincoln writes order
            of court in petition to sell real estate in <name type='case' key='L03758'>Keys &amp; Matheny v. Matheny et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-04'>Wednesday, March 4, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln gets judgment for Elijah Iles by default for $431.92 in <name type='case' key='L03618'>Iles v. White</name>. In <name type='case' key='L03479'>Hay v. Lasswell</name>, defendant confesses judgment for
            $2.50. Stuart &amp; Lincoln are for plaintiff, Nathaniel Hay. They lose appeal case
            when court awards plaintiff $18.22 in <name type='case' key='L04148'>Newton v. Hailey</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-05'>Thursday, March 5, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, Scammon, and Judd for plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L04768'>VanWagenen v. Pearsons</name> get judgment by default for $456.20 and
            costs. In <name type='case' key='L02955'>Carman &amp; Carman v.
               Glasscock et al.</name>, jury awards plaintiff $85 against two defendants.
            Plaintiff's attorneys, Stuart &amp; Lincoln, take nonsuit as to defendant John
            Strode; remaining three defendants recover costs.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-06'>Friday, March 6, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln win by default <name type='case'>Trotter v. Laswell et al.</name>, and <name type='case' key='L04088'>Neff, Wanton &amp; Co. v. Stockton</name>. Lincoln gets judgment by consent, for
            $200 in <name type='case' key='L03779'>Hay v. Lasswell &amp;
            Mock</name>. <name type='case' key='L04688'>Trotter v. Lasswell</name>
            and <name type='case' key='L03730'>Keedy v. Elkin</name> are continued.
            In <name type='case' key='L04772'>Vaughn v. Ransdell</name> and <name type='case' key='L04545'>Spear v. Camp</name>, defendants file pleas
            and plaintiffs their joinder.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes two pleas in <name type='case' key='L03932'>Manning v. Morgan et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-07'>Saturday, March 7, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Jury is called in <name type='case' key='L04772'>Vaughn v.
               Ransdell</name>. Lincoln wins case when plaintiff is awarded $245.96 and costs.
            Walker, defendant's attorney, enters motion for new trial. Lincoln, Strong, and Doremus
            represent defendant in <name type='case' key='L03102'>Crowl v.
            Lindsay</name>. They win case when judgment of lower court is affirmed.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes affidavit of Stuart &amp; Lincoln's client Isaac Cogdal
            in <name type='case' key='L04817'>Webster &amp; Hickox v.
            Cogdal</name>; he writes replication in <name type='case' key='L04545'>Spear v. Camp</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-09'>Monday, March 9, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is appointed guardian for infant heirs of Dr. Jacob M. Early,
            captain of his company in Black Hawk War. Also as guardian, of William, Henry, and John
            Batterton, Lincoln files guardian's answer in <name type='case' key='L04653'>T. M. Suter v. Thomas W. Sparks et al.</name> Lincoln's survey of land
            (17.72 acres) involved in case of <name type='case' key='L02888'>Butler
               v. Tilford et al.</name> is accepted by court, and as commissioner, Lincoln deeds
            land to Butler. Judge Treat had appointed Lincoln at November 1839 term of Sangamon
            Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record; <title>Deed
                  Record, Book P</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln swears affidavit in <name type='case' key='L03932'>Manning v. Morgan et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1840-03-10'>Tuesday,
  March 10, 1840.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln as attorney for plaintiff in 
  <name type='case' key='L03018'>Carter v. Bennett &amp;
  Ransdell</name>, moves court for leave to amend declaration. Motion granted,
  and case continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-12'>Thursday, March 12, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Motion for new trial made by Walker, attorney for defendant in <name type='case' key='L04772'>Vaughn v. Ransdell</name> on March 7, 1840,
            is denied.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-13'>Friday, March 13, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln, attorneys for plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L04545'>Spear v. Camp</name>, are given leave to amend
            declaration. Case is tried before court, and court considers.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-14'>Saturday, March 14, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Sangamon County Whig convention nominates for legislature. Delegates disregard
    Springfield Junto and vote as they choose. Lincoln and Baker are both nominated, but Lincoln
    believes that except for their speaking ability they would have been dropped. Ninian W. Edwards
    is hurt by not being nominated.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A219' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T. Stuart</xref>,
     26 March 1840, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:208.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes bill of exceptions in <name type='case' key='L03932'>Manning v. Morgan et al.</name>, and gets Judge Treat's signature; he writes
    declaration in <name type='case'>Kerr and Kerr v. Hill</name>. <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln buy $1.25 worth of merchandise from a Springfield
    merchant. <bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 14 March 1840, Irwin &amp;
     Corneau Account Book, 185, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-16'>Monday, March 16, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> In Sangamon Circuit Court, on motion of complainant, order issued March 9,
            1840 appointing Lincoln guardian for infant heirs of Dr. Jacob M. Early is set aside.
               <name type='case' key='L04381'>Richter v. Holtzman</name> is dismissed
            by agreement. Lincoln is attorney for plaintiff. In Jacksonville, E. D. Baker opens
            three-day political debate. Probably Lincoln accompanies Baker.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Register, 27 March 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-17'>Tuesday, March 17, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Josiah Lamborn replies to Baker's address. Lincoln follows Lamborn in
            speech at Market House. Before he has finished, he is requested to postpone balance of
            his speech until night. Douglas then takes stand. At court house in evening, Lincoln
            speaks for two hours. He reads from Treasury report list of defaulters to prove
            corruption in Van Buren Administration.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 27
               March 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-18'>Wednesday, March 18, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes notices calling for election of mayor and alderman, under
            Springfield's new charter, and election of town trustees, plus acceptance or rejection
            of charter. He signs with four other trustees.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A218' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Notice of an Election</xref>,
               18 March 1840, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
            1:207-8.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-20'>Friday, March 20, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws up affidavit of defendant, David Spear, in <name type='case' key='L04358'>Ragsdell &amp; Ashbury v. Spear</name>. Spear states
            that Ragsdell is unable to pay costs of suit and that Ashberry has become nonresident of
            state, and asks that plaintiffs be ruled to give security for costs.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1840-03-21'>Saturday,
  March 21, 1840.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Writing Stuart, Lincoln says: "The Locos
  have no candidates on the track yet, except Dick Taylor for the Senate. Last
  saturday he made a speech, and May answered him. The way May let the wind out
  of him, was a perfect wonder. The court room was verry full, and neither you
  nor I ever saw a crowd in this county so near all on one side."
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A219' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T.
  Stuart</xref>, 26 March 1840, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:208.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-24'>Tuesday, March 24, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes petition in <name type='case' key='L00866'>Barrett v. Warren</name>, signing for Barrett and also for E. D. Baker, Barrett's
            attorney. He writes order waiving procedure in case, and to include in trial cases of
               <name type='case' key='L05757'>Barrett v. Miller</name> and <name type='case' key='L05758'>Barrett v. Rew</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-25'>Wednesday, March 25, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Clerk of Sangamon Circuit Court gives Lincoln execution in <name type='case' key='L03745'>Kendall v. Moffett</name>, directed to
            sheriff of Schuyler County.<bibl default='NO'>Execution Docket D.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> (See November 30, 1839.)</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-26'>Thursday, March 26, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Stuart: "In relation to the Kinzie matter, I can say no more
            than this, that the check was taken from the Bank by you, and on the same day you made a
            note in our memorandum book, stating you had sent it by mail to Kinzie."<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A219' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T.
                  Stuart</xref>, 26 March 1840, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:208.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [At 7:30 P.M. William H. Herndon and Mary J. Maxcy are married.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 3 April 1840.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-03-27'>Friday, March 27, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Register attacks Whig Junto as combination which, by secret and evil means,
    seeks to perpetuate its power.] Stuart &amp; Lincoln buy $1.62 worth of merchandise from a
    Springfield merchant.<bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 27 March 1840, Irwin
     &amp; Corneau Account Book, 185, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>