<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-01'>Saturday, August 1, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Defendant in <name type='case' key='L04553'>Spear et al. v.
               Newton &amp; Newton</name> files his reasons and enters motion to dismiss
            complainant's supplemental bill. Court overrules, to which opinion defendant excepts,
            and bill of exceptions is made part of record. Logan, Lincoln, and Stuart are for
               complainant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-03'>Monday, August 3, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Election day. Five Whigs are elected to lower house of Eleventh General
            Assembly. Lincoln votes for four Whigs and J. M. Barrett, Democrat. His vote helps elect
            E. D. Baker to Illinois Senate. Darneille, Brown, Bradford, and Francis are elected with
            Lincoln to House. Lincoln polls smallest vote of elected candidates. His total is almost
            600 more than that of leading Democrat.<bibl default='NO'>Election
               Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-04'>Tuesday, August 4, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Declaration written by Lincoln is filed in Circuit Court of Livingston
            County at Pontiac in <name type='case' key='L02070'>Popejoy v.
            Wilson</name>. Popejoy is seeking $2,000 damages for defamation of character. No other
            evidence of Lincoln's presence in Pontiac on this date is known, and it is possible
            declaration was sent from Springfield by mail or messenger.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-06'>Thursday, August 6, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> William F. Elkin gives $10,000 bond as sheriff of Sangamon County. Bond is
            signed by Elkin, John Williams, Benjamin Talbott, Robert Irwin, John Constant, and
               Lincoln.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-13'>Thursday, August 13, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln files complainant's amended bill in <name type='case' key='L03587'>Hornsby v. Ragsdale et al.</name>, in Sangamon Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-17'>Monday, August 17, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> ["Ed. Baker, Lincoln, Governor Duncan and myself, are going to spend all
            our time in the southern counties, discussing the principles of our party . . . and
            challenge these men to a fair discussion of this administration, organize our friends,
            circulate documents amongst them and in this way, my word for it, we must succeed."<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Eddy MSS, A. P. Field to H. Eddy, 17 August
               1840.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-18'>Tuesday, August 18, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En
            route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln signs bond of Tilman Hornbuckle to Levi Summers, administrator of
            Alfred Summers, filed in probate court, then starts on campaign trip. (Writing to Henry
            Eddy August 17, 1840, A. P. Field states: "Tomorrow Lincoln and myself leave for
               Belleville."<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Eddy MSS, A. P. Field to
               H. Eddy, 17 August 1840.</bibl>)</p>
         <p> Register comments: "The Junto have determined in secret conclave to
            revolutionize the southern part of the State, and have appointed A. P. Field and A.
            Lincoln missionaries to . . . the benighted region."<bibl default='NO'>Register, 21 August 1840; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [In Rushville, publicized case of <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright et al. v. Adams</name> is continued by agreement, which Lincoln
            wrote and evidently mailed. Douglas is now acting for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1840-08-19'>Wednesday, August 19, 1840.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En
  route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's whereabouts on August
  18-22, 1840 has not been ascertained, but it is reasonable to believe that he
  and Field are meeting Whig leaders in county seats south and southwest of
  Springfield.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-22'>Saturday, August 22, 1840.</date>
            <place key='38.5167, -89.9833' teiForm='name'>Belleville, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [Although no evidence of Lincoln's presence in Belleville on this day has
            been found, Field's letter of August 17, 1840 indicates that it was his and Lincoln's
            immediate destination. Distance from Springfield&#8212;approximately 100
            miles&#8212;could have been covered easily in four days.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-23'>Sunday, August 23, 1840.</date>
            <place key='38.3333, -90.1333' teiForm='name'>Waterloo, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "The traveling missionaries, Lincoln and Field, reached Waterloo on
               Sunday."<bibl default='NO'>Register, 4 September 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-24'>Monday, August 24, 1840.</date>
            <place key='38.3333, -90.1333' teiForm='name'>Waterloo, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Notice is posted at court house Monday morning that Lincoln will address
            people on Tuesday.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 4 September 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-25'>Tuesday, August 25, 1840.</date>
            <place key='38.3333, -90.1333' teiForm='name'>Waterloo, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Large crowd hears Lincoln. Adam Snyder, Democratic presidential elector,
            replies to Lincoln's two-hour address with one of equal length. Lincoln "seemed like a
            man traveling over unknown ground," declares "Register."<bibl default='NO'>Register, 4 September 1840; Belleville Advocate, 29 August
            1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-26'>Wednesday, August 26, 1840.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.3167, -88.9000' teiForm='name'>Mount Vernon,
            IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> Exact day of Lincoln's speech in Mount Vernon has not been determined, but
            it is assumed that today and tomorrow are spent in making 80-mile trip from Waterloo to
            Mount Vernon.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-28'>Friday, August 28, 1840.</date>
            <place key='38.3167, -88.9000' teiForm='name'>Mount Vernon, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> On or about this date Lincoln and John A. McClernand, Whig and Democratic
            electoral candidates, debate in Methodist Church.<bibl default='NO'>Susannah Johnson, <title>Recollections of the Rev. John Johnson and
                  His Home: An Autobiography</title> (Nashville, TN: Southern Methodist Publishing
               House, 1869), 259.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-08-31'>Monday, August 31, 1840.</date>
            <place key='38.3167, -88.9000' teiForm='name'>Mount Vernon, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln does not vote, being out of town, in special election for county
            surveyor. Political debate between John T. Stuart, S. A. Douglas, and E. D. Baker
            attracts large crowd in Springfield.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 4
               September 1840.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>