<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-01'>Saturday, June 1, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
George Henry Story, painter, sketches President at work three 
successive mornings.
<bibl default='NO'>Rufus R. Wilson, <title>Lincoln in Portraiture</title> (New York: Press of the Pioneer, 1935), 167-69; LL, No. 793.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln family reserves pew in New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 6 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Members of 2d Maryland Regiment elect Capt. John C. McConnell their 
colonel and send delegation to President to procure colonel's 
commission for him.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 3 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
 From balcony of White House President and family hear afternoon music 
by Marine band. Brisk firing (musket practice) on Virginia side of 
Potomac interrupts program.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 2 June 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 2 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-06-02'>Sunday, June
  2, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President and
  Sec. Seward visit Navy Yard and receive 21-gun salute. <bibl default='NO'>Bruce,
  <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 88.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> G. H.
  Story continues sketching President. <bibl default='NO'>Rufus R. Wilson, <title>Lincoln in
  Portraiture</title> (New York: Press of the Pioneer, 1935), 167-69.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-03'>Monday, June 3, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Sen. Douglas (Ill.) dies at 9:10 A.M. in Chicago at age 48. Death 
comes several weeks after attack of acute rheumatism followed by 
complicated illness.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 4 June 1861.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
President directs that government offices be closed on day of funeral 
and that Executive Mansion and departments be draped in mourning 30 
days.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 6 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
G. H. Story continues sketching President.
<bibl default='NO'>Rufus R. Wilson, <title>Lincoln in Portraiture</title> (New York: Press of the Pioneer, 1935), 167-69.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[From contingent fund for expenses of Executive Office, John G. 
Nicolay purchases "Map of the Seat of War."
<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;RG 217, General Accounting Office, 142-060.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-06-04'>Tuesday, June 4, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> Several merchants and shipbuilders from Baltimore interview
  President and cabinet in special session. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 6 June
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President makes short speech of welcome to Marcelino
  Hurtado, minister plenipotentiary from Granadian Confederation. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 5 June 1861;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A671' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Don Marcelino Hurtado</xref>, 4 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:393.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Ignores secession in
  Texas and recognizes Miguel Zaragosa as consul for Mexico at San Antonio. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 8 June 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In the evening, President
  Lincoln and First Lady <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mary Lincoln</person> host a
  dinner for members of the "diplomatic corps." A newspaper reports, "It was in
  many respects the most brilliant affair of the sort that has ever taken place
  at the Executive Mansion." Mary Lincoln decorates using "fragrant natural
  flowers...[from] the White House conservatories and grounds" in place of the
  existing "stiff artificial flowers." "The dinner was served in a style to
  indicate that Mrs. Lincoln's good taste and good judgment had exercised
  supervision in this department also." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Evening Star</title>
  (Washington, D.C.), 7 June 1861, 2:1-2; <title>The New York Times</title> (NY),
  7 June 1861, 8:1.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-05'>Wednesday, June 5, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Subcommittee of Union Defense Committee of New York reports to 
President on forwarding of troops and munitions.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 6 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Lincoln's private secretary, John G. Nicolay, leaves for two-week 
trip to Illinois.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 6 June 1861.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
Lincoln prepares order for Gen. George B. McClellan to command 
Sturges Rifles of Chicago [later McClellan's bodyguard]. Writes Gen. 
Scott for assistance in preparing way for appointment of Gen. Meigs 
as quartermaster general.
<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%3A673' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Winfield Scott</xref>, 5 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:394-95.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gives Marshal W. H. Lamon written testimonial to expedite 
organization of brigade of Unionist Virginians.
<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%3A674' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Testimonial Written for Ward H. Lamon</xref>, 5 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:395.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Henry S. Turner, retired army officer, Missouri farmer, 
and banking partner of Gen. William T. Sherman.
<bibl default='NO'>Sherman to Sherman, 8 June 1861, William T. Sherman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives May salary warrant for $2,083.34.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[President's Mounted Guard wanted dead or alive. Southern sources 
offer $500 reward for each and every member.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 6 June 1861.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-06'>Thursday, June 6, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"It was decided by the Cabinet today that all the expenses of the war 
should be paid by the General Government except such sums as may be 
expended by the States in the equipment and maintenance of men 
previous to their being sworn in."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 7 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-06-07'>Friday, June
  7, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Funeral of Sen.
  Douglas (Ill.). Lincoln receives no visitors. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 7 June
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Government departments, municipal offices, public
  schools closed in deference to Douglas. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 8
  June 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Joseph Gawler, cabinet maker and undertaker, Penn.
  Ave. between 17th &amp; 18th Sts. charges Executive Mansion account $28.00 for
  "224 yds. of Black cambric," $1.12 for "3 yds of Black crape" and $15.00 for
  "Drapeing the Building." <bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;RG 217, General Accounting Office,
  141-665.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-08'>Saturday, June 8, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews former Cong. Emerson Etheridge (Tenn.) who will 
direct distribution of arms sent to Cairo, Ill.
<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%3A676' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 8 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:395-96.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves U.S. Sanitary Commission authorized by secretary of war, 
consisting of Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, Unitarian pastor, president, 
Profs. Alexander D. Bache, Wolcott Gibbs, Jeffries Wyman, Drs. 
William H. Van Buren, Samuel G. Howe, Robert C. Wood, Col. George W. 
Cullum, and Maj. Alexander E. Shiras.
<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), 1:Diary.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and party review Garibaldi Guard at Camp Grinnell, DC, on 
eastern branch of Potomac.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 9 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-09'>Sunday, June 9, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President does not accompany <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> to church today.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 11 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
["In Christ Church, at Alexandria, today the Reverend Dr. Cornelius 
B. Walker, a Disunionist, preached a strong Secession sermon, 
significantly omitting the prayer for the President of the United 
States from the regular service."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 10 June 1861.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-10'>Monday, June 10, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Secretary of War: "Please let Col. Montgomery C. Meigs 
be appointed Quarter-Master-General."
<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%3A685' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 10 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:398.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Prepares order for issue of bonds for use of Delaware Indians.
<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%3A691' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order for Issue of Bonds for Use of Delaware Indians</xref>, 10 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:400-2.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Appoints resident ministers: former Cong. Edward J. Morris (Pa.) to 
Constantinople, Henry T. Blow of Missouri to Venezuela, Charles N. 
Riotte of Texas to Costa Rica.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 11 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 5 P.M. President and Gen. Scott review 2d Michigan Regiment at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 11 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening group of army chaplains is entertained by President and 
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 12 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $31.65 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 176.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
President deposits May salary check for $2,083.34 in Riggs Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Witnesses experiments with gun made by Orison Blunt and writes Comdr. 
Dahlgren: "I really think it worthy the attention of the government."
<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%3A688' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement: John A. Dahlgren to Lincoln</xref>, 10 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:399.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[For $2.50, Joseph Gawler, cabinet maker, mounts 4 maps in the 
President's house.
<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;RG 217, General Accounting Office, 141-665.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-06-11'>Tuesday, June
  11, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's
  former pastor, Dr. James A. Smith of Springfield, is visiting at Executive
  Mansion. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 12 June 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Prof. Joseph Henry,
  secretary of Smithsonian Institution, introduces Thaddeus S. C. Lowe,
  balloonist, to President. <bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of
  War</title>, 85.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln visits Navy Yard, receives artillery
  salute, witnesses gun practice. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 13 June 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Reviews Ohio and New York regiments at White House. Washington Star, June
  12, 1861. Accepts six additional regiments from Indiana. <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%3A692' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 11 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:402.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Informs Gen. Meigs
  that his appointment as quartermaster general will probably be made tomorrow. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Meigs Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Authorizes Commissioner Dole to select
  superintendent of Indian affairs in Washington Territory. Anson Dart of
  Wisconsin, former superintendent of Indian affairs in Oregon, is designated.
  Adverse reports on Dart cause Lincoln to write Dole "that neither you or I
  could knowingly be for such a man." <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%3A695' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William P. Dole</xref>, [c. 11] June 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:403-4.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-12'>Wednesday, June 12, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Meigs accompanies Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes to see President about 
field command and promotion for Keyes.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Meigs Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-13'>Thursday, June 13, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Hiram Berdan, mechanical engineer and expert rifleman, in morning 
interview with President regarding formation of regiment of 
sharpshooters is referred to secretary of war.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 18 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President would accept another regiment from Michigan and hopes that 
regiment in Massachusetts commanded by Fletcher Webster will be 
accepted.
<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%3A700' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 13 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:405; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A701' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 13 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:405.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Hiram Barney, collector, Port of New York, and friends interview 
President about appointments.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 14 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Secs. Chase and Cameron accompany President in carriage with cavalry 
escort on trip to entrenchments on Virginia side of Potomac. Review 
troops at 7 P.M. Recross Long Bridge on foot because of damaged 
sleepers.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 14 June 1861; N.Y. Tribune, 14 June 1861; <title>Journal</title>, 14 June 1861, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-14'>Friday, June 14, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President orders secretary of war: "Let Hon. John A. Dix be a Major 
General of Volunteers. Let Captain John Pope of the U.S.A. and Hon. 
Stephen A. Hurlbut of Ills. each be a Brigadier General, of 
(Illinois) volunteers."
<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;WR RG 94, Adjt. Gen. Off., Letters Received, Box 629; 
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A706' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of John Pope and Stephen A. Hurlbut</xref>, 14 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:407.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln and two boys at depot in afternoon to meet <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> 
arriving from Philadelphia.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 15 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln spends evening at Navy Yard.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 15 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-15'>Saturday, June 15, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President accepts offer of ten additional regiments from Gov. John A. 
Andrew (Mass.).
<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%3A708' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement: John A. Andrew to Hiram Walbridge</xref>, 15 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:408.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs Sec. Chase to issue warrant to William H. Carryl and brother, 
Philadelphia merchants, for $7,500 for furnishings for Executive 
Mansion purchased by <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>.
<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%3A707' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 15 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:407.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[See May 29, 1861, June 17, 1861.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-16'>Sunday, June 16, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Sec. Seward visit camps along Potomac, and Lincoln shakes 
hands with each member of Cayuga (N.Y.) Regiment. "He goes [at] it 
with both hands, and hand over hand . . . gives good honest hearty 
shake, as if he meant it."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 17 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-06-17'>Monday, June 17, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, with concurrence of Sec. Cameron, approves acceptance
  of three-year service regiments from Indiana and Ohio. <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%3A713' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 17 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:410;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A714' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 17 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Baser2'>CW</title>, 4:410-11.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President Lincoln
  spends part of the day attending military functions. A newspaper reports, "The
  Pennsylvania 4th [Regiment] came in from camp this afternoon, and marched up
  to the White House, where they were reviewed by the President." Another paper
  reports that Lincoln and the Secretary of War Simon Cameron look on as General
  Irvin McDowell's wife Helen "and one or two other ladies," donate cloths
  fashioned to provide sun protection to the soldiers of  "Companies I, B and G,
  [with the] Second Cavalry." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>New York Daily Tribune</title>, 18
  June 1861, 4:6; <title>The New York Times</title>, 20 June 1861, 8:1.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Asks Cameron to furnish "Navy-revolvers and Sabre" so that
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> may send them to John Fry of Boyle
  County, Ky., "an acquaintance of hers, and a good &amp; brave man." <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%3A712' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 17 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:410.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Approves payment of
  bill for $7,500 to Wm. H. Carryl and brother for purchases made by
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>. <bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;RG 217, General
  Accounting Office, 140-775.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [See May 29, 1861, June 15, 1861.]
  </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-18'>Tuesday, June 18, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives telegram from Prof. Lowe in balloon "Enterprise" 
over Columbia Armory grounds: "This point of observation commands an 
area near fifty miles in diameter. . . . I have the pleasure of 
sending you this first dispatch ever telegraphed from an aerial 
station."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 19 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Gen. Butler, Democrat who is dissatisfied with recognition 
given him by Gen. Scott.
<bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 241-42.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meeting on promotions in regular army.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 19 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln confers with Sen. James H. Lane (Kans.) and several members 
of Congress about accepting new regiments from western states.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 20 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
John G. Nicolay, private secretary to President, returns from vacation.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 18 June 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-19'>Wednesday, June 19, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President reviews two new Pennsylvania regiments in morning.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 20 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Adjt. Gen. Thomas on military appointments.
<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%3A721' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lorenzo Thomas</xref>, 19 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:413.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes N. W. Edwards: "It pains me to hear you speak of being ruined 
in your pecuniary affairs."
<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%3A719' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ninian W. Edwards</xref>, 19 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:412.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Announces that visitors will not be received until opening of special 
session of Congress on July 4, 1861.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 20 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> drive to Navy Yard in evening and see 71st 
New York Regiment drilling.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 20 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-20'>Thursday, June 20, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President authorizes suspension of writ of habeas corpus in case of 
Maj. William H. Chase, charged with treason.
<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%3A724' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Winfield Scott</xref>, 20 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:414.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes sec. of war about additional New York regiment.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:472.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-21'>Friday, June 21, 1861</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and party visit camps on Virginia side of Potomac.
<bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 22 June 1861.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-22'>Saturday, June 22, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President directs heads of bureaus in war, navy, and other 
departments to prepare, under direction of John G. Nicolay, reports 
showing number of men enlisted as soldiers or seamen in service of 
U.S., and number and description of war vessels and transports owned 
or chartered by government.
<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%3A726' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Heads of Bureaus</xref>, 22 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:415.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves, if agreeable to secretary of war, receiving cavalry 
regiment as one of infantry regiments already accepted from Indiana.
<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%3A725' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 22 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:415.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-06-24'>Monday, June
  24, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  interviews Commodore Stringham assigned to Norfolk to prepare expedition to
  coast of North Carolina. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 25 June 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  With party of five generals and three cabinet members observes demonstration of
  "Coffee Mill" gun at Arsenal, Greenleaf's Point and 4&#189; St. SW. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 119.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Reviews 37th New York Regiment at White House. <bibl default='NO'>Baltimore Sun, 25
  June 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Calls cabinet meeting for 12 M. <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%3A728' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 24 June 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:416.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At 2 P.M.
  President, Sec. Cameron, and Chief of Ordnance Col. James W. Ripley watch
  experiments with rifled cannon at Arensal. <bibl default='NO'>Ordnance Office Notice, 24
  June 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC; Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of
  War</title>, 148; Washington Star, 25 June 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> L. Molina
  presents letters again accrediting him as minister from Costa Rica and
  Nicaragua. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 25 June 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In
  evening 1st and 2d Rhode Island Regiments pass in review at Executive Mansion
  before President and cabinet. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 25 June 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-25'>Tuesday, June 25, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President, <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, and party attend, by invitation, funeral of 
soldier conducted with military honors and Hungarian obsequies at 
camp of Garibaldi Guard.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 26 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln notifies Marshal Lamon that companies recruited from 
Virginians will be mustered in immediately.
<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%3A730' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ward H. Lamon</xref>, 25 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:416-17.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Calls conference with Gens. Scott, Meigs, and John A. Dix, and 
cabinet to consider military situation. "The President expresses a 
strong desire to bag [Gen. Thomas J. ('Stonewall')] Jackson [(CSA)]."
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Meigs Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-26'>Wednesday, June 26, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lord Lyons presents letter from Queen Victoria to President 
announcing death of mother, Duchess of Kent.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 27 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President sends Queen letter of condolence.
<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%3A731' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Queen Victoria</xref>, 26 June 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:417.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives honorary degree of LL.D. from Columbia College; Dr. Francis 
Lieber, president of Columbia, presents award personally.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 27 June 1861; <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 27 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[On July 4, 1860, Lincoln received his first honorary degree, LL.D. 
from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-27'>Thursday, June 27, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sec. Seward and Lincoln attend flag-raising ceremonies at camp near 
Chain Bridge and visit camps on heights.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 3 July 1861; <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 28 June 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Camp of 37th New York Volunteers, under command of Col. John H. 
McCunn, becomes Camp Mary in honor of First Lady in bottle-breaking 
ceremony attended by <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 28 June 1861.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-29'>Saturday, June 29, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President summons military officers to special cabinet meeting on 
state of Union. Gen. Irvin McDowell presents plan for attacking 
Confederates under Gen. Beauregard at Manassas. Gen. Scott proposes 
sending an expedition down the Mississippi, establishing blockade, 
and starving South into submission as best way to suppress rebellion. 
Thinks troops too raw for battle and disagrees with military 
authorities. President and cabinet believe public wants action and 
further delay might cool Northern zeal.
<bibl default='NO'>Benjamin P. Thomas, <title>Abraham Lincoln: A Biography</title> (New York: Knopf, 1952), 270; Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 1:391.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President officiates at flag-raising and band concert on south lawn 
of White House.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 1 July 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-06-30'>Sunday, June 30, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, Sec. Seward, and Atty. Gen. Bates arrive at Navy Yard at 11 
A.M., drive through yard with Comdr. Dahlgren, and go on board U.S.S. 
"Pawnee."
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>