<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-01'>Friday, November 1, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet accepts resignation of Gen. Scott and decides upon 
appointment of Gen. McClellan as successor. President orders Bvt. Lt. 
Gen. Winfield Scott placed on list of retired officers of Army of 
U.S. Later calls at Scott's residence with members of cabinet.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A24' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Retiring Winfield Scott from Command</xref>, 1 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:10-11.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Informs McClellan: "I have designated you to command the whole army."
<bibl default='NO'>McClellan, <title corresp='books_McClellan'>War for Union</title>, 200; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A23' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 1 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:9-10.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening, with John Hay, visits McClellan and Sec. Seward at their homes.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Capt. McKinney (Thomas J. McKenny?) delivers President's order dated 
October 24, 1861 relieving Gen. Fremont of command of Dept. of West.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A1084' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel R. Curtis</xref>, 24 October 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:562-63.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-11-02'>Saturday, November 2, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President's order removing Gen. Fremont from
  command of Dept. of West is delivered. <bibl default='NO'>Curtis to Lincoln, 6 November
  1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President writes Sec. Cameron: "I
  think any officer who has been dismissed on suspicion of disloyalty, but does
  not go over to the enemy, continuing to protest his loyalty, entitles himself
  to a hearing." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A26' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 2 November 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:11.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes Gen.
  Joseph G. Totten, Chief of Engineers: "If Genl Totten &amp; myself are both
  alive, and in place in June 1862, &amp; he Genl T. will remind me of it, I then
  wish to give a Cadetship to a son of Professor [Dennis H.] Mahan." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A31' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph G. Totten</xref>, 2 November 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:13.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-03'>Sunday, November 3, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President telegraphs Gen. William K. Strong at St. Louis: "Gen. 
McClellan is in command of substantially the whole Army, including 
the Department of the West."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A33' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William K. Strong</xref>, 3 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:13.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-04'>Monday, November 4, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President suggests that plans for Maine's coastal defense be laid 
before engineer and ordnance bureaus.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A34' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 4 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:13-14.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives visitors from 10 a.m. to noon only.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 4 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Spends an hour at Gen. McClellan's headquarters.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
On bill for $5,198.00 from Wm. H. Carryl and brother for "French 
Satin Brocatelle Curtain, Tassels, Fringes, Cornices, Hall Carpets, 
Laces Labor Freight &amp; Cartage," <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> writes: "This bill 
is correct in accordance with my purchases from Mr. Carryl&#8212;The 
goods are now here&#8212;Mr. Lincoln will please have bill paid." 
Lincoln endorses verso: "Approved and referred to the accounting 
officers for settlement."
<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;RG 217, General Accounting Office, 142-006.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-05'>Tuesday, November 5, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet votes to acquire two steam fire engines for Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 6 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Halleck arrives in Washington and goes to White House with Gen. 
McClellan to meet President and cabinet.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 6 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President interviews Massachusetts delegation consisting of James 
Lawrence, Dr. Ira Russell, Army surgeon, and Dwight Foster, attorney 
general of Massachusetts, regarding promotion of Col. Charles Devens.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A38' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Charles Devens</xref>, 5 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:15.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives October salary warrant for $2,083.33. [Irwin withdraws 
$12.50 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182, 176.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-06'>Wednesday, November 6, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President approves, with modification, plan for Missouri State 
Militia to cooperate with troops in service of U.S. in military 
operations within state.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A40' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Approving the Plan of Governor Gamble of Missouri</xref>, 6 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:15-17.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives telegram from Gen. Curtis that order relieving Gen. Fremont 
of command was delivered November 2, 1861.
<bibl default='NO'>Curtis to Lincoln, 6 November 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Postmaster Gen. Blair shows President telegram from Baltimore 
announcing election of whole Union ticket.
<bibl default='NO'>Fulton to Blair, 6 November 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives Col. Rush C. Hawkins of Hawkins Zouaves.
<bibl default='NO'>New York Public Library, Bookmen's Holiday, 94.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-11-07'>Thursday, November 7, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President converses with John Hay about opening of
  cotton trade. <bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and
  Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Recognizes Friedrich Kuhne as consul of Grand
  Duchy of Saxe-Weimar for State of New York. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 11
  November 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives recommendation for new military
  district of Kansas, Arkansas, and Indian country with headquarters at Fort
  Leavenworth under command of Col. James Law, 19th New York Militia. <bibl default='NO'>Wade
  and others to Lincoln, 7 November 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of
  Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Buys $8,300 worth of Treasury notes. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 8 November
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Endorses Sec. Seward's note proposing to present two
  foreign ministers: "All right A.L." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A42' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, [7 November 1861],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:17.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Entertains
  Col. Hawkins in evening; serves toast and tea. <bibl default='NO'>Bookmen's Holiday,
  96.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-08'>Friday, November 8, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sec. Seward presents Count Edward Piper, minister of Sweden and 
Norway, to President.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 9 November 1861; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A44' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Edward Count Piper</xref>, 8 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:17-18.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Charles F. Havelock, British officer appointed aide-de-camp to Gen. 
McClellan, November 23, 1861, calls on Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 9 November 1861; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A740' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 27 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:351.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President receives F. S. Asta Buruaga, Chilean minister, who 
announces inauguration of new President of Chile.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 9 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Loans Thomas Stackpole, White House watchman, $380.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 82.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-09'>Saturday, November 9, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln sends congratulations to Jos&#233; Joaquin Perez, new 
President of Chile.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A47' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jos&#233; Joaquin Perez</xref>, 9 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:19.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives Gen. McClellan's apology for being unable to attend him this evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Marcy to Lincoln, 9 November 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-10'>Sunday, November 10, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln has long interview with Cong. Washburne (Ill.) and hears 
report on government contracts in Dept. of West.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A50' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. McClernand</xref>, 10 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:20-21.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Holds conference on military matters at Gen. McClellan's headquarters 
in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, 11 November 1861, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes social letter to Gen. John A. McClernand: "Some of your forces 
are without arms, but the same is true here, and at every other place 
where we have considerable bodies of troops. The plain matter-of-fact 
is, our good people have rushed to the rescue of the Government, 
faster than the government can find arms to put in their hands."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A50' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. McClernand</xref>, 10 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:20-21.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-11'>Monday, November 11, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Augustus W. Bradford, newly elected governor of Maryland, escorted by 
former Sen. Johnson (Md.) visits President.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 12 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln watches torchlight parade of Blenker's Germans in honor of 
Gen. McClellan's promotion pass White House. Later, with John Hay, 
visits McClellan's house.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-12'>Tuesday, November 12, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and John Hay, assistant secretary to President, have tea in 
evening with family of Asst. Sec. Fox.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-13'>Wednesday, November 13, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Baltimore delegation visits President on behalf of unemployed and 
destitute laborers in city.
<bibl default='NO'>Frank Moore, ed., <title>The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events</title>, 11 vols. &amp; 1 supplemental vol. (New York: Van Nostrand, 1861-68), 3:Diary.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln, Sec. Seward, and John Hay wait in Gen. McClellan's residence 
to see him. McClellan arrives home from wedding and retires to bed 
without speaking to President.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> returns to Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 14 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Sec. Cameron: "I hope you will, if possible, find some 
employment for" Charles S. Todd, former minister to Russia, "and 
distantly related to Mrs. L."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A57' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 13 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:22-23.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-11-14'>Thursday, November 14, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln receives account of Leonard Swett's survey
  of Dept. of West. <bibl default='NO'>Swett to Lincoln, 9 November 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Consults with Gen. McClellan and Asst. Sec. Fox about
  another "big expedition." <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library
  of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Calls at Sec. Seward's house in
  evening and meets newspapermen W. H. Russell, correspondent London "Times," and
  Henry J. Raymond, editor New York "Times." <bibl default='NO'>Russell,
  <title corresp='books_Russell'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-15'>Friday, November 15, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President replies to address presented by delegation from Baltimore: 
"The Government of the United States has been diligently engaged in 
endeavoring . . . to save Baltimore and Maryland from the danger of 
complete ruin through an unnecessary and unnatural rebellion."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A61' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Delegation of Baltimore Citizens</xref>, 15 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:24.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Gen. Charles P. Stone.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 16 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Postmaster Gen. Blair and wife call on President. Blair confers with 
Lincoln about "Trent" affair involving removal by Capt. Charles 
Wilkes (USN) in command of U.S.S. "San Jacinto," of former Sen. James 
M. Mason (Va.) and former Sen. John Slidell (La.) Confederate envoys, 
from British ship.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In afternoon President and several members of cabinet board steamer 
"Mount Washington" at Navy Yard for Alexandria, Va., to inspect 
U.S.S. "Pensacola."
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 16 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-16'>Saturday, November 16, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Edwin V. Sumner interviews President and Gen. McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 18 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Sumner (Mass.) and Postmaster Gen. Blair urge Lincoln to 
surrender Mason and Slidell at once.
<bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 170.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President writes Adjt. Gen. Thomas: "Lieut. John Watt who, I believe, 
has been detailed to do service about the White-House, is not needed 
for that purpose, and you assign him to his proper place in Regiment."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A64' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lorenzo Thomas</xref>, 16 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:25.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-18'>Monday, November 18, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln appoints father of late Col. Ellsworth military storekeeper.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 19 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, escorted by Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, visits arsenal.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 19 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Borrows from Library of Congress: "Oeuvres de Victor Hugo, vol. 11." 
Additional books sent to White House are Gunnison's "Mormons," Hyde's 
"Mormonism," and "Book of Mormons." [John Williams Gunnison, Mormons, 
or Latter Day Saints . . ., Philadelphia, 1856; John Hyde, Mormonism: 
Its Leaders and Designs, New York, 1857; The Book of Mormon; an 
Account Taken by the Hand of Mormon from the Plates of Nephi. By 
Joseph Smith Jr., Palmyra, N.Y., 1830.]
<bibl default='NO'>Borrower's Ledger 1861-1863, 114, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln thanks George Bancroft, historian, for sending report of 
proceedings of New York meeting for relief of Union people of North 
Carolina.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A65' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George Bancroft</xref>, 18 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:25-26.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-19'>Tuesday, November 19, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln refuses to accept resignation of Col. Lamon as U.S. marshal 
for District of Columbia.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 20 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-20'>Wednesday, November 20, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President and several members of
  cabinet ride to Munson's Hill, Bailey's Cross Roads, Va., approximately six
  miles from White House, and witness "the largest and most magnificent military
  review ever held on this continent." <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 21 November 1861,
  John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-21'>Thursday, November 21, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Fifteenth New York Regiment in presence of Lincoln gives exhibition 
of skill in throwing pontoon bridge across eastern branch of Potomac.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 22 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President writes Gen. McClellan: "If General McClellan and General 
Halleck deem it necessary to declare and maintain martial law at St. 
Louis the same is hereby authorized."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A69' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 21 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:27.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asks Sec. Smith: "Can you, by any possibility, find some place for 
Judge Taft? I shall be greatly obliged if you can &amp; will." 
[Taft's children were playmates of Willie and Tad Lincoln.]
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A70' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Caleb B. Smith</xref>, 21 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:28.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-22'>Friday, November 22, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet considers granting clearances to reconquered Southern ports.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 24 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President recognizes Oscar Malmborg as vice consul of Norway and 
Sweden at Chicago.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 25 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Following books sent to White House from Library of Congress: "U.S. 
Constitution 1783, U.S. Constitution 1856, Mormonism in all ages, 
Mormons, or Latter Day Saints, Works of Jefferson, vols. 4, 7, 8, 9." 
[Possibly first title is in error for one of several 1787 printings 
of Constitution; second is likely Declaration of Independence, and 
Constitution of the United States of America, with its Amendments. 
Census of 1850, Boston, 1856; third volume is unidentified; fourth is 
Henry Mayhew, The Mormons; or Latter-Day Saints. With Memoirs of the 
Life and Death of Joseph Smith . . ., London, 1856; fifth, The 
Writings of Thomas Jefferson, New York, 1861.]
<bibl default='NO'>Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-23'>Saturday, November 23, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and Sec. Seward leave at 1 P.M. in steamer "Mount 
Washington" to visit flotilla on Potomac, and return in time for 
Lincoln to enjoy performance of Hermann, the magician, at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 24 November 1861; Nicolay to Bates, 24 November 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, accompanied by Comdr. Dahlgren and John Hay, goes down 
Potomac on board steamer "Mount Washington" as far as Stump Neck.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 27 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Invites about 100 guests, including Gen. Heintzelman and wife, to 
White House for evening's entertainment.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, 25 November 1861, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-24'>Sunday, November 24, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President calls conference on "Trent" affair at War Dept. with 
members of cabinet and several senators.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 98.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults with Cong. Isaac N. Arnold (Ill.) about conditions in 
Northwest and what Federal government should do for that section.
<bibl default='NO'>Arnold to Lincoln, 25 November 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-11-25'>Monday, November 25, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In evening Lincoln visits home of Asst. Sec. Fox. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In afternoon <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>
  visits regiment of Col. John Cochrane, former congressman from New York,
  encamped near Glenwood Cemetery, north of Capitol. <bibl default='NO'>National
  Intelligencer, 27 November 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Irwin deposits $175 in
  Springfield Marine Bank, rent received from Lucian A. Tilton, president of
  Great Western Railroad living in Lincoln's house. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 164.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-26'>Tuesday, November 26, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas regarding confiscation 
of her property in southern Illinois. "But it is especially dangerous 
for my name to be connected with the matter; for nothing would more 
certainly excite the secessionists to do the worst they can against 
the children."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A78' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Advice to Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas</xref>, 27 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:32.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Drafts bill for compensated emancipation in Delaware. [Never introduced.]
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A74' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Drafts of a Bill for Compensated Emancipation in Delaware</xref>, [26? November 1861], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:29-31.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Cameron and Bishop Matthew Simpson of Methodist Church discuss 
with President possible bias of government toward churches.
<bibl default='NO'>Simpson to Cameron, 27 November 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> attended by former Cong. Ashmun (Mass.) watches Gen. 
McClellan's morning review of regular troops on East Capitol Hill.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 27 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-27'>Wednesday, November 27, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Citizens of Saratoga County, N.Y., petition President for exchange of 
prisoners.
<bibl default='NO'>27 November 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President orders government departments closed tomorrow because 
Washington and Georgetown authorities have appointed 28th as day of 
thanksgiving.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A79' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order for Day of Thanksgiving</xref>, 27 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:32.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Thanks Synod of New York and New Jersey for resolutions appealing to 
Christians to behave like Christians in these wicked times.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 30 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Calls at home of Asst. Sec. Fox in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-28'>Thursday, November 28, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln invites Joshua F. Speed and wife, among others, to 
Thanksgiving dinner at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 29 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-29'>Friday, November 29, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President reads part of Annual Message at cabinet meeting.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Sec. Chase on behalf of W. Johnson: "If you can find him the 
place [I] shall really be obliged." [Placed in Treasury Dept.]
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A81' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 29 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:33.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives an estimated 50 letters per week from officers of European 
armies offering their services to government.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 29 November 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-11-30'>Saturday, November 30, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President examines plans of Anna Ella Carroll, pamphleteer, for 
Tennessee River campaign submitted by Asst. Sec. Scott. 
<bibl default='NO'>Anna E. Carroll, "Plan of the Tennessee Campaign," <title>North American Review</title> 142 (April 1886):345-47.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Meets with Sec. Seward, Comdr. Dahlgren, and others at Gen. 
McClellan's residence in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Endorses letter of former President Fillmore regarding appointment of 
nephew, George M. Fillmore: "Respectfully submitted to the Sec. of 
War, remarking that it be very agreeable to me for Mr. Fillmore to be 
obliged."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A82' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 30 November 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:33.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>