<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-09-01'>Sunday, September 1, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Gen. Butler, invited by President to cabinet
  meeting at 10 A.M., describes capture of forts at Hatteras Inlet, N.C. In
  afternoon President, John G. Nicolay, and Seward family visit local army camp.
  Lincoln describes officer: "There's more in that Colonel than you'd think at
  first. He begins low, but he goes high." Directs driver to return to city via
  Capitol. <bibl default='NO'>NRR&#8212;Diary of Frances Seward Ms.; Nicolay to Bates, 2
  September 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In evening President and Sec. Seward review 1st and 3d New
  York Regiments of Excelsior Brigade. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 2
  September 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-02'>Monday, September 2, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President orders Gen. Fremont: "It is therefore my order that you 
allow no man to be shot, under the proclamation [issued by Fremont 
August 30], without first having my approbation or consent. Secondly, 
. . . in relation to the confiscation of property, and the liberating 
slaves . . . Allow me . . . to ask, that you will . . . modify that 
paragraph so as to conform to the . . . act of Congress, . . . 
approved August 6th, 1861."
<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%3A929' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 2 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:506-7.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln and Sec. Seward review 2d and 5th Wisconsin Regiments of Gen. 
Rufus King's brigade.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 3 September 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits $60 in Springfield Marine Bank, interest on Isaac Lindsay note.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 164.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In New York, <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> purchases from E. V. Haughwont and Co., 
488-92 Broadway, "One fine Porcelain Dining Service of One Hundred 
and ninety pieces . . . decorated Royal Purple, and double gilt, with 
the Arms of the United States, on each piece, for the Presidential 
Mansion. . . . $3,195.00."
<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;RG 217, General Accounting Office, 141-541.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-03'>Tuesday, September 3, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President at Arsenal most of morning.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 4 September 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In afternoon inspects army installations near Falls Church, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Russell, <title corresp='books_Russell'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Rides with Seward family in evening. Talks briefly with Gen. Scott.
<bibl default='NO'>Frances Seward, Diary.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-04'>Wednesday, September 4, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives from commanding officer, Col. George D. Ramsay, 
statement of serviceable arms at Washington Arsenal.
<bibl default='NO'>Ramsay to Lincoln, 4 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Gov. Gamble (Mo.) regarding recruiting of troops.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 5 September 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Appoints Asst. Sec. Fox acting secretary of navy during absence of Sec. Welles.
<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%3A931' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Appointment of Gustavus V. Fox</xref>, 4 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:507.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-05'>Thursday, September 5, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln confers with Gen. Scott about Military Dept. of Missouri, 
Gen. Fremont, and Gen. Hunter.
<bibl default='NO'>Scott to Lincoln, 5 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Appears on Pennsylvania Ave. in rain, carrying parcel, no umbrella.
<bibl default='NO'>Russell, <title corresp='books_Russell'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves purchase in Europe of 100,000 muskets and "18,000 sabres" 
through Herman Boker &amp; Co.
<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%3A939' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 5 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:509.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives August salary warrant for $2,083.34.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and family return to Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6 September 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[In New York, <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> purchases books from Daniel Appleton and 
Co., in amount of $264.00.
<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;RG 217, General Accounting Office, 141-775.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-09-06'>Friday, September 6, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Commodore Stringham at White House in morning for
  conference with President. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 7 September
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> White House callers: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Harvey of Ohio,
  John F. Winslow, New York businessman, and Maj. John T. Sprague of
  Massachusetts. <bibl default='NO'>DLC&#8212;RTL, Yates to Lincoln, 3 September 1861, Seward
  to Lincoln, 6 September 1861, Harris to Lincoln, 4 September 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, Sec. Seward, and
  Col. Ward H. Lamon visit Lamon's cavalry regiment and 23d Pennsylvania
  Regiment. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 7 September 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Writes check to "Master Tad" for "one gold dollar." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:476.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-07'>Saturday, September 7, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Philip L. Fox, F. N. Buck, and Martin Thomas of 
Philadelphia regarding purchase and resale of arms to 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%3A948' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Interview with Philip L. Fox</xref>, 7 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:512-13.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Arthur Rich about consulate at Shanghai.
<bibl default='NO'>Rich to Lincoln, 10 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Russian minister, Baron Edouard de Stoeckl, has audience with 
President and reads friendly letter from Emperor. Lincoln describes 
message as "the most loyal manifestation of friendship" shown by any 
European government.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 9 September 1861; Albert A. Woldman, <title>Lincoln and the Russians</title> (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1952), 129.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-08'>Sunday, September 8, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President stays execution of Pvt. William Scott, Co. K, 3d Vermont 
Volunteers, ordered to be shot for sleeping on guard duty at Chain 
Bridge.
<bibl default='NO'>Lucius E. Chittenden, <title>Recollections of President Lincoln and his Administration</title> (New York: Harper, 1891), 266-80.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"Mr. Lincoln came this morning to ask me to pardon a man that I had 
ordered to be shot, suggesting that I could give as a reason in the 
order that it was by request of the Lady President [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>]."
<bibl default='NO'>McClellan, <title corresp='books_McClellan'>War for Union</title>, 91.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> go for drive toward Arlington in their new 
open carriage.
<bibl default='NO'>Russell, <title corresp='books_Russell'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-09'>Monday, September 9, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President writes Gen. Hunter about Gen. Fremont and his difficulty in 
Dept. of West: "Gen. Fremont needs assistance. . . . His cardinal 
mistake is that he isolates himself, &amp; allows nobody to see him; 
and by which he does not know what is going on in the very matters he 
is dealing with. He needs to have, by his side, a man of large 
experience. Will you not, for me, take that place? Your rank is one 
grade too high to be ordered to it; but will you not serve the 
country, and oblige me, by taking it voluntarily?"
<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%3A950' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to David Hunter</xref>, 9 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:513.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Discusses problems of building ironclad boats with Cornelius S. 
Bushnell, Connecticut industrialist. George H. Robinson, "The 
Builders of the First Monitor,"
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Century Magazine</title>, XLI, 156; West, <title corresp='books_West'>Welles</title>, 151.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-09-10'>Tuesday, September 10, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln authorizes Gen. Butler "to raise, organize,
  arm, uniform and equip a Volunteer force for the War, in the New England
  States." <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%3A955' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Draft
  of Order Authorizing Benjamin F. Butler to Raise a Volunteer Force</xref>, 10
  September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:515.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Meets with navy board at 11 A.M. to hear plans of C. S. Bushnell for
  building ironclad vessels. <bibl default='NO'>West, <title corresp='books_West'>Welles</title>, 151.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews delegation
  of prominent Kentuckians. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 12 September
  1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Attends presentation of colors to Pennsylvania troops by
  Gov. Curtin (Pa.) at Tennallytown, north of Georgetown and near Maryland line,
  followed by public review of Gen. George A. McCall's division. Later, with Sec.
  Cameron, Gen. McClellan, and Curtin, tours fortifications on Virginia side of
  Potomac and returns at 7 P.M. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 11 September 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> When Mrs. John C. Fremont, who brings letter and verbal communications
  from her husband,demands immediate interview, Lincoln responds: "Now, at once
  [midnight]." <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%3A956' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Mrs. John C. Fremont</xref>, 10 September [1861],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:515.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-11'>Wednesday, September 11, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President publicly orders Gen. Fremont to modify his proclamation of 
August 30, 1861 to conform to Act of Congress, August 6, 1861.
<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%3A964' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 11 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:517-18.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs governors of New England states that Gen. Butler proposes 
raising six regiments in their states and asks their consent.
<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%3A965' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to New England Governors</xref>, 11 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:518-19.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Charles H. Foster, posing as Congressman-elect from North Carolina, 
interviews Lincoln and promises brigade of loyalists for war.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 12 September 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-12'>Thursday, September 12, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, on his way to State Dept., walks through White House garden 
during band concert "quite unnoticed by the crowd."
<bibl default='NO'>Russell, <title corresp='books_Russell'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Mrs. Fremont: "It is not exactly correct . . . to say that I 
sent Post-Master-General Blair to St. Louis to examine into that 
Department, and report. . . . No impression has been made on my mind 
against the honor or integrity of Gen. Fremont."
<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%3A967' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. John C. Fremont</xref>, 12 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:519-20.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends Joseph Holt of Kentucky, member of former President Buchanan's 
cabinet, copy of letter written to Fremont regarding latter's 
proclamation of August 30, 1861.
<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%3A968' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 12 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:520.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-13'>Friday, September 13, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with William P. Thomasson, former congressman from 
Kentucky, regarding patronage.
<bibl default='NO'>Note by Lincoln, 13 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives telegram addressed to Joshua F. Speed of Kentucky, early 
Illinois friend of Lincoln, by three citizens of Louisville: "There 
is not a day to lose in disavowing emancipation or Kentucky is gone 
over the mill dam."
<bibl default='NO'>Telegram, 13 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Gen. Scott about Gen. Fremont's situation.
<bibl default='NO'>Committee on Conduct of War, <title corresp='books_Congress2'>Report</title> (1863), 3:151.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves payment of bill for dining service purchased by <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> 
[See September 2, 1861].
<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;RG 217, General Accounting Office, 141-451.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-14'>Saturday, September 14, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President consults with Sec. Cameron and they decide to ask Gen. 
Fremont to send 5,000 well-armed infantry to Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>Committee on Conduct of War, <title corresp='books_Congress2'>Report</title> (1863), 3:133.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening President has long friendly chat at Executive Mansion with 
Sec. Welles who has just returned from Connecticut.
<bibl default='NO'>West, <title corresp='books_West'>Welles</title>, 151.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Steams down Potomac at night to watch test of electro-mercury light 
invented by Prof. John T. Way.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, 15 September 1861, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Lincoln's account is charged $1.00, again for "altering collar."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Lutz Account Book</title>.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-15'>Sunday, September 15, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Today President conducts second cabinet meeting regarding removal of 
Gen. Fremont. Decides to await report of emissaries examining case.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay memorandum of conversation, 17 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles at White House in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles to wife, 15 September 1861, Gideon Welles Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-09-16'>Monday, September 16, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President requests Gen. Scott to prepare order for
  recruiting North Carolinians at Fort Hatteras, N.C. <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%3A984' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Winfield Scott</xref>, 16 September 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:525.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives
  report through Scott that Gen. Fremont has ordered Col. Blair under arrest. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Memorandum of conversation with President, 17 September 1861, John G.
  Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-17'>Tuesday, September 17, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President writes Gen. Scott: "Inform me what can be, and ought to be 
done as a recognition of the gallantry of the officers who fought 
with Gen. [Nathaniel] Lyon at Wilson's creek?"  [Action in Mo., 10 August 1861]; 
<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%3A988' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Winfield Scott</xref>, 17 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:526-27.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Chase hands President telegram from Gen. Sherman regarding 
available troops.
<bibl default='NO'>Chase to Sherman, 17 September 1861, William T. Sherman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-18'>Wednesday, September 18, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President appoints general officers for new Kentucky brigade.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 18 September 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Minister for Denmark pays visit of ceremony at 12 M.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 18 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets morning and afternoon to hear reports of Gen. Meigs and 
Postmaster Gen. Blair, who have studied conditions at St. Louis under 
Fremont regime.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 19 September 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Miles J. Fletcher, superintendent of public instruction, hands 
Lincoln report from Gov. Morton (Ind.) on Indiana regiments.
<bibl default='NO'>Morton to Lincoln, 16 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President alerts secretaries of war and navy that joint expedition 
agreed upon "must be ready to move by the first of, or very early in, 
October."
<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%3A991' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 18 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:527-28.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-19'>Thursday, September 19, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews James Baker regarding discharge of son under 18 
from 2d Michigan Infantry.
<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%3A997' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Winfield Scott</xref>, 19 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:529.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At request of Sec. Seward holds conference with Col. Isaac M. Tucker, 
2d New Jersey Regiment Volunteers.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 19 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Postmaster Gen. Blair confers with President about arrest of Col. 
Blair in St. Louis for criticizing Gen. Fremont's policy.
<bibl default='NO'>Blair to Fremont, 20 September 1861, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> has few friends, including Gen. and Mrs. Samuel P. 
Heiintzelman, at White House for evening party.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-20'>Friday, September 20, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Prince de Joinville, son, nephews, and suite visit White House and 
meet President. Join presidential party for review of Col. Hiram 
Berdan's regiment of sharpshooters.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>. 21 September 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-21'>Saturday, September 21, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln investigates charge of disloyalty against Isaac S. Miller, 
government employee, and recommends that he retain job at Arsenal.
<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%3A1002' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, [21 September 1861], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:530-31.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Personally escorts Joshua F. Speed to office of Adjt. Gen. Thomas to 
see that arms, equipment, and officers are supplied Gen. Anderson's 
department without delay.
<bibl default='NO'>Speed to Anderson, 24 September 1861, Robert Anderson Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-09-22'>Sunday, September 22, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President receives telegram from Gov. Morton (Ind.)
  and forwards it to Gen. Fremont: "Owensboro, 40 miles above Evansville, in
  possession of secessionists. Green river is navigable. Owensboro, must be
  seized. We want a gunboat sent up from Paducah for that purpose." <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%3A1004' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 22 September 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:533.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Explains in
  letter to Sen. Browning (Ill.) that Gen. Fremont's proclamation as to
  confiscation of property and liberation of slaves "is purely political." <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%3A1003' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Orville H. Browning</xref>, 22 September 1861,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:531-33.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-23'>Monday, September 23, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives telegram from Gen. Anderson, Louisville, Ky.: 
"Company of regular infantry absolutely necessary for ordnance stores 
and a provost guard."
<bibl default='NO'>Anderson to Lincoln, 23 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Seward at White House at 8 P.M. to discuss Gen. Fremont.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 23 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[John G. Nicolay adds to furnishings of Executive Offices with 
purchase of mahogany sofa ($24.00) and 6 chairs ($18.00) from G. M. 
Wight.
<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;RG 217, General Accounting Office, 142-060.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-24'>Tuesday, September 24, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 4 P.M. President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, Gens. McClellan, Mansfield, and 
McDowell, heads of departments, foreign ministers, and many 
distinguished personages assemble on plain three miles east of 
Capitol to witness grand review of artillery and cavalry.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 25 September 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-25'>Wednesday, September 25, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Christopher C. Denny, probably clothing 
manufacturer of Leicester, Mass., and directs him to secretary of war.
<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%3A1011' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 25 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:535.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Messenger from Gov. William Gilpin (Colorado Terr.) calls upon 
Lincoln to obtain military supplies.
<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%3A1012' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 25 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:536.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President approves proposals of Samuel A. Pancoast, resident 
Hampshire County, Va., for procuring salt and sends him to Gen. Scott 
for military clearance.
<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%3A1013' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Winfield Scott</xref>, 25 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:536.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-26'>Thursday, September 26, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives report from Gov. Yates (Ill.) that to date war 
effort has cost state $3,533,511.02.
<bibl default='NO'>Yates to Lincoln, 26 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Attends divine service "on day of humiliation, prayer and fasting for 
all people of the nation."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 27 September 1861; Washington Star, 25 September 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At telegraph office jokes with employees: "Gentlemen, this is a fast 
day and I am pleased to observe that you are working as fast as you 
can."
<bibl default='NO'>David H. Bates, <title>Lincoln Stories Told by him in the Military Office in the War Department during the Civil War</title> (New York: Rudge, 1926), 31-32.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Attends afternoon lecture by Prof. McCoy in House of Representatives 
in observance of National Fast Day.
<bibl default='NO'>Invitation, 25 September 1861, Gideon Welles Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gov. Morton (Ind.): "We are supplying all the demands for 
arms as fast as we can . . . a week ago we heard that the enemy was 
encamped on Muldroughs hill now our friends are encamped upon it . . 
. that is an improvement."
<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%3A1017' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Oliver P. Morton</xref>, 26 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:537-38.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-09-27'>Friday, September 27, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln invites Gen. McClellan to attend cabinet
  meeting in Gen. Scott's office. "Before we got through the General 'raised a
  row with me.' " <bibl default='NO'>McClellan, <title corresp='books_McClellan'>War for
  Union</title>, 91.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Miss Laura Redden, writer from
  Missouri, about book she is writing. <bibl default='NO'>Bates to Lincoln, 27 September 1861,
  Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Withholds pass to accompany vessel down Potomac
  solicited by Henry Wikoff, correspondent for New York "Herald". <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%3A1021' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  to James G. Bennett</xref>, 28 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:539.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-28'>Saturday, September 28, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives Indiana delegation seeking military commission for 
Thomas A. Morris, former brigadier general of volunteers.
<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%3A1022' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 28 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:539.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Charles Weston, former military storekeeper at Watertown Arsenal, 
Conn., who wants appointment as storekeeper.
<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%3A1026' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George M. Weston</xref>, 28 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:540.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-29'>Sunday, September 29, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives letter written by Col. Blair to Adjt. Gen. Thomas 
containing charges against official conduct of Gen. Fremont.
<bibl default='NO'>Blair to Thomas, 26 September 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Tells Gov. Morton (Ind.): "We are doing the very best we can" in 
sending arms. Supply limited and must be sent where needed most. 
"Army in our front may make a half circle around Southward, and move 
on Louisville; but when they do, we will make a half circle around 
Northward, and meet them."
<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%3A1028' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Oliver P. Morton</xref>, 29 September 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:541-42.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1861-09-30'>Monday, September 30, 1861.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with three gentlemen from Baltimore concerning 
release of Mayor Brown arrested for "complicity with those in armed 
rebellion against the Government of the United States."
<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%3A976' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Statement Concerning Arrests in Maryland</xref>, [c. 15 September 1861], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:523; <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 4 October 1861.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>