<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-01'>Wednesday, January 1, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> hold New Year's reception at Executive 
Mansion from 11 A.M. to 2 P.M. Members of cabinet and families enter 
first, followed by gold-braided diplomatic corps, justices of Supreme 
Court, and officers of army and navy. At 12 M. gates are opened to 
public.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 2 January 1862, 3 January 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Washington Star, 1 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gen. Buell at Louisville, Ky.: "General McClellan 
should not yet be disturbed with business. I think you better get in 
concert with General Halleck at once. I write you to-night. I also 
telegraph and write Halleck."
<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%3A186' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Don C. Buell</xref>, 1 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:86.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Advises Halleck at St. Louis: "Gen. McClellan should not yet be 
disturbed with business. I think Gen. Buell and yourself should be in 
communication and concert at once. I write you to-night, and also 
Telegraph and write him."
<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%3A188' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 1 January 1861 [1862], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:87.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Informs Halleck: "General McClellan is not dangerously ill, as I 
hope, but would better not to be disturbed . . . I am very anxious 
that, in case of General Buell's moving toward Nashville, the enemy 
shall not be greatly re-enforced, and I think there is danger he will 
be from Columbus. It seems to me that a real or feigned attack upon 
Columbus from up-river at the same time would either prevent this or 
compensate for it by throwing Columbus into our 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%3A189' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 1 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:87.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes McClellan: "I hear that the doings of an Investigating 
Committee, give you some uneasiness. You may be entirely relieved on 
this point. . . . As their investigation brings them acquainted with 
facts, they are rapidly coming to think of the whole case as all 
sensible men would."
<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%3A190' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 1 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:88.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-02'>Thursday, January 2, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President visits Gen. McClellan, who is at home ill, and finds that 
"he is very much better."
<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%3A191' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 2 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:88.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends communication to Congress regarding London industrial exhibition.
<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%3A192' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 2 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:88.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Drives to Navy Yard in afternoon with Asst. Sec. Fox to observe 
firing of 150-pound rifled cannon. "For the first time I heard the 
President speak of the bare possibility of our being two nations."
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-03'>Friday, January 3, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President transmits to Senate treaty with tribe of Potawatomi 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=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A196' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 3 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:89.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 8 P.M. attends fifth lecture by Horace Greeley at Smithsonian. 
Occupies seat on platform. Discourtesy toward President exhibited by 
Fremont clique.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 4 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-04'>Saturday, January 4, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln stands on sidewalk in front of White House and reviews 6th 
U.S. Cavalry in forenoon.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 4 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gen. Buell: "Have arms gone forward for East-Tennessee? 
Please tell me the progress and condition of the movement, in that 
direction."
<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%3A197' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Don C. Buell</xref>, 4 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:90.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-01-05'>Sunday, January 5, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Postmaster Gen. Blair at White House for talk on
  foreign affairs. <bibl default='NO'>Blair to Lincoln, 7 January 1862, 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='1862-01-06'>Monday, January 6, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President visits Gen. McClellan still confined at home with typhoid 
fever. Shows him dispatch from Gen. Buell relative to military 
situation in East Tennessee.
<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%3A200' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Don C. Buell</xref>, 6 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:91.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets 7:30 P.M. at request of Joint Committee on Conduct of 
War. Lincoln rejects demand of Sen. Wade (Ohio) for removal of 
McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>Thomas Harry Williams, <title>Lincoln and the Radicals</title> (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), 83.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives December salary warrant for $2,083.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-07'>Tuesday, January 7, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President requests Gens. Buell and Halleck to name day they can move 
southward in concert for ultimate protection of East Tennessee.
<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%3A201' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Don C. Buell</xref>, 7 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:91-92; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A202' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 7 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:92.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Complains about telegraph service to and from Louisville, Ky., and 
gets report from Capt. Anson Stager, manager of military telegraph.
<bibl default='NO'>Stager to Lincoln, 8 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Acknowledges receipt of memorial from English Friends containing 
"generous suggestions in the interests of peace and humanity."
<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%3A203' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Francis T. King and Others</xref>, 7 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:92.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Holds levee for overflow crowd from 8:30 to 10:30 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 8 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits $317.58, interest on notes of N. W. Edwards, in 
Springfield Marine Bank and withdraws $3.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165, 177.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-08'>Wednesday, January 8, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President with <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and party attends celebration of French 
regiment quartered in Tennallytown, DC.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 9 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Converses at length with Gen. James Shields, who once challenged him 
to duel in Springfield.
<bibl default='NO'>[See 19 September 1842.] Washington Star, 9 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
White House requests loan of "Halleck's Science of War" from Library 
of Congress. [Henry W. Halleck, Elements of Military Art and Science, 
N.Y., 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='1862-01-09'>Thursday, January 9, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and John Nicolay are at Capitol attending to public business.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 10 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gen. McClellan: "I think you better go before the 
Congressional Committee the earliest moment your health will 
permit&#8212;to-day, if possible." Also: "I send the within copy of 
dispatch from Gen. Buell, with the remark that neither he nor Halleck 
meets my request to name the day when they can be ready to move."
<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%3A208' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 9 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:94; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A209' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 9 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:94.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-01-10'>Friday, January 10, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cabinet meets. Atty. Gen. Bates complains that
  administration is not assuming strong enough stand in eliminating confusion. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President transmits to Congress Austrian documents relating to "Trent" affair. 
  <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 15 January 1862;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A212' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 10 January 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:95-96.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Recognizes
  C. F. Adac as consul of Dukedom of Saxe-Meiningen for Western U.S. 
  <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 15 January 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Rev.
  Thomas K. Beecher, brother of better-known Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman,
  reformer, and abolitionist. <bibl default='NO'>Robbins to Lincoln, 10 January 1862, Robert
  Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Consults with Thurlow Weed regarding reputation
  of Sec. Cameron and his removal from cabinet. <bibl default='NO'>Thurlow W. Barnes, ed.,
  <title>Life of Thurlow Weed including his Autobiography and a Memoir</title>, 2
  vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), 2:330-31.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "President
  comes to me [Gen. Meigs] much depressed re inactivity of army and McClellan's
  sickness. 'The people are impatient; Chase has no money, and he tells me he can
  raise no money; the Gen. of the Army has typhoid fever. The bottom is out of
  the tub. What shall I do?' " <bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Library
  of Congress, Washington, DC; Montgomery C. Meigs, "Documents: General M. C.
  Meigs on the Conduct of the Civil War," <title>American Historical
  Review</title> 26 (January 1921):292.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President summons Gens.
  McDowell and Franklin, Secs. Seward and Chase, and Asst. Sec. Scott to "Council
  of War" at 8 P.M. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 3 November 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Writes Cameron: "The within is a copy of a letter just received from General
  Halleck. It is exceedingly discouraging. As everywhere else, nothing can be
  done." <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%3A211' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 10 January 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:95.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-11'>Saturday, January 11, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President accepts Sec. Cameron's resignation and offers him post as 
minister to Russia.
<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%3A214' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 11 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:96-97.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gov. Andrew (Mass.) to help Gen. Butler "officer his two 
un-officered regiments."
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 22 January 1862; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A213' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. Andrew</xref>, 11 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:96; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 3, I, 862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Calls second meeting of "Council of War" to discuss immediate 
operation of Army of Potomac.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 3 November 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-12'>Sunday, January 12, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives unexpected visit from Gen. McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>McClellan, <title corresp='books_McClellan'>War for Union</title>, 156.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 1 P.M. convenes another meeting of Gens. McDowell, Franklin, and 
Meigs, Secs. Seward and Chase, and Postmaster Gen. Blair. Adjourns 
meeting until tomorrow, when McClellan will be present.
<bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Dr. Fuller, clergyman from Baltimore.
<bibl default='NO'>Harris to Lincoln, 12 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Sen. Browning (Ill.) calls at White House. Lincoln 
thinking of taking field himself. Has several plans.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-01-13'>Monday, January 13, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cabinet in special meeting at 11
  A.M. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 13 January 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Lincoln names <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>E. M. Stanton</person> his secretary of war
  to succeed Simon Cameron. <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%3A214' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 11 January 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:96.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends to
  Senate nomination of Cameron as minister to Russia. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14
  January 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In afternoon convenes council of several
  generals, including Gen. McClellan, and cabinet members to discuss military
  plans. McClellan declines to give details of his plans for fear of leak;
  considers council military cabal against him. <bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Montgomery C. Meigs, "Documents:
  General M. C. Meigs on the Conduct of the Civil War," <title>American
  Historical Review</title> 26 (January 1921):292.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President
  Lincoln writes to Brigadier General Don C. Buell concerning military strategy,
  and states that although his suggestions are not "orders," he would like them
  to be "respectfully considered." Lincoln offers his assessment of the war: "We
  have the <uLine>greater</uLine> numbers, and the enemy has the
  <uLine>greater</uLine> facility of concentrating forces upon points of
  collision." Lincoln suggests that the Union forces pressure the enemy "at
  <uLine>different</uLine> points, at the <uLine>same time</uLine>; so that we
  can safely attack, one, or both, if he makes no change." <bibl default='NO'>Lincoln to Buell
  (copy), 13 January 1862, Edwin M. Stanton Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A217' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Don C. Buell</xref>, 13 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:98-99.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-01-14'>Tuesday, January 14, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln arranges for public demonstration of Levi
  Short's Greek Fire shells in Treasury Park. <bibl default='NO'>Bruce,
  <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 181.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Attends
  public reception in evening at White House. <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 15 January
  1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Irwin withdraws $7 from Springfield Marine Bank. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-15'>Wednesday, January 15, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President's nomination of 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>E. M. Stanton</person>
 for secretary of war 
confirmed by Senate.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 16 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Charles H. Upton, district commissioner, at White House by 
appointment; but leaves after long wait without seeing President.
<bibl default='NO'>Upton to Lincoln, 16 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gen. Halleck: "This will introduce Gov. G. Koerner, of 
Illinois, who is my personal friend, and who calls on you at my 
particular request. Please open the sealed letter he will hand you 
before he leaves you and confer with him as to its contents." Lincoln 
proposes to make Koerner a brigadier general. "The Germans are true 
and patriotic, and so far as they have got cross in Missouri it is 
upon mistake and misunderstanding."
<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%3A220' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 15 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:99-100.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-16'>Thursday, January 16, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln gives first written assignment to new secretary of war, 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>E. M. Stanton</person>
: "If a clerkship can be given Mr. [Richard D.] Goodwin I 
shall be very glad I am very earnest about this."
<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%3A223' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 16 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:101.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-17'>Friday, January 17, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In morning Lincoln consults with Edwards Pierrepont, former superior 
court judge of City of New York.
<bibl default='NO'>Pierrepont to Lincoln, 19 January 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In afternoon discusses with Gen. James H. Lane surrender of fugitives 
to loyal owners.
<bibl default='NO'>Report of W. A. Croffut to N.Y. Tribune, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Atty. Gen. Bates confers with Lincoln and delivers papers relating to 
Wheeler pardon case.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates to Washburne, 17 January 1862, Elihu B. Washburne Papers, Library of Congress, Washington DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
The Chevalier Bertinatti, minister resident of Italy, calls and 
presents communication from King Victor Emmanuel.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 16 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln transmits to Senate petition of certain members of Potawatomi 
tribe of Indians complaining about treaty made on November 15, 1862 
last.
<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%3A224' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 17 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:101-2.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends to Congress documentation exchanged with Prussia regarding 
"Trent" affair.
<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%3A225' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 17 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:102.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-18'>Saturday, January 18, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Delegation consisting of Cong. Crittenden (Ky.) and Sens. John P. 
Hale (N.H.), Henry S. Lane (Ind.), and James W. Nesmith (Oreg.) 
confers with President on behalf of Maj. Henry D. Wallen.
<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%3A229' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 18 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:103.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> sends carriage to bring Sen. Browning (Ill.) to White 
House in evening. Lincoln and Browning talk for more than hour. Sen. 
Garrett Davis (Ky.) joins them.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-20'>Monday, January 20, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President signs appointment of 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>E. M. Stanton</person>
 as secretary of war.
<bibl default='NO'>William D. Kelley, <title>Lincoln and Stanton: A Study of the War Administration of 1861 and 1862: with Special Consideration of Some Recent Statements of Gen. George B. McClellan</title> (New York: Putnam, 1885), 17.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives written protest from committee representing 14th Brooklyn 
Regiment against change in number to 84th.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 21 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-21'>Tuesday, January 21, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President in fine spirits at White House reception tonight.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 22 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-01-22'>Wednesday, January
  22, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President sends
  letters of sympathy and congratulation to King of Portugal: sympathy at death
  of brothers, congratulation on accession to throne and marriage of sister. 
  <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%3A233' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Luiz I</xref>, 22 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:104-5;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A234' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Luiz I</xref>, 22 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:105.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Mrs.
  Schermerhorn and son regarding appointment to Military Academy. <bibl default='NO'>Seward to
  Lincoln, 21 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Committee of New
  York Germans calls on President in protest against treatment of Gen. Franz
  Sigel. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 23 January 1862; Card of admission, 22 January 1862,
  John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  California delegation in Congress presents portrait of late Col. Baker to
  Lincoln as gift from William B. Farwell of San Francisco. <bibl default='NO'>Phelps to
  Lincoln, 22 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln transmits
  to Senate articles of agreement with Ponca tribe of 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=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A238' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, [22] January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:106-7.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In evening
  witnesses another exhibition of Greek Fire shells on grounds south of White
  House. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 23 January 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In a
  letter to the Secretary of the War <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Edwin M.
  Stanton</person>, President Lincoln rejects Stanton's suggestion to have "the
  Adjutant General [Lorenzo Thomas]...attend me wherever I go." Lincoln writes,
  "[I]t would be an uncompensating incumbrance both to him and me. When it shall
  occur to me to go anywhere, I wish to be free to go at once...It is better too,
  for the public service, that he shall give his time to the business of his
  office, and not to personal attendance on me." <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%3A241' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 22 January 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:108.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-23'>Thursday, January 23, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Lt. Henry A. Wise (USN), Navy Bureau of 
Ordnance, regarding mortars under construction at Pittsburgh.
<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%3A242' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew H. Foote</xref>, [23 January 1862], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:108.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults with Gen. Lane and Sen. Samuel C. Pomeroy (Kans.) regarding 
fugitive slaves and concludes that government cannot return them.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 24 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Nominates John Tucker of Pennsylvania and Peter H. Watson of 
Washington, DC, to be assistant secretaries of war.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 25 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Sen. Lazarus W. Powell (Ky.) regarding military 
assessments to provide for persons made homeless.
<bibl default='NO'>Powell to Lincoln, 29 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Attends opera at Washington Theatre, 11th and C St. NW., with Mrs. 
Lincoln for performance of "Il Trovatore."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 24 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Addresses memorandum to heads of departments and bureaus: "This man 
wants to <uLine>work</uLine>&#8212;so uncommon a want that I think it 
ought to be gratified. I shall be obliged by any Head of of 
[<uLine>sic</uLine>] a Bureau, or Department who can and will find 
work for him."
<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%3A243' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Heads of Departments and Bureaus</xref>, 23 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:109.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-24'>Friday, January 24, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln authorizes 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to make desired changes in Bureau of Ordnance.
<bibl default='NO'>Stanton to Lincoln, 24 January 1862, Elihu B. Washburne Papers, Library of Congress, Washington DC; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A246' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, [24 January 1862], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:110.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults with E. Delafield Smith, U.S. district attorney in New York, 
who favors noninterference by President in case of Capt. Nathaniel 
Gordon, sentenced to be hanged for slave trading.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 24 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Submits to Senate correspondence in case of Spanish vessel 
"Providencia" seized by U.S. blockading squadron.
<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%3A245' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 24 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:109-10.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests advice of Senate on loan to Mexico.
<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%3A244' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 24 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:109.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-01-25'>Saturday, January 25, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> William Schouler, adjutant general of
  Massachusetts, interviews President regarding raising of troops in
  Massachusetts by Gen. Butler. <bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 1:324.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sen.
  Browning (Ill.) spends hour with President during morning. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Subcommittee of
  Committee on Conduct of War interviews Lincoln on military administration of
  Gen. Fremont. <bibl default='NO'>Committee on Conduct of War,
  <title corresp='books_Congress2'>Report</title> (1863), 1:79.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-26'>Sunday, January 26, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Irritated by slow production of mortars, Lincoln decides, in 
interview as reported by Asst. Sec. Fox, "to take these army matters 
into his own hands."
<bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 169.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 and E. M. Shield, construction engineer, 
regarding manufacture of mortar beds.
<bibl default='NO'>Shield to Chase, 1 February 1862, Salmon P. Chase Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening meets with several members of cabinet. <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> not 
well enough to receive visitors.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, 27 January 1861, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New' TEIform='div2'> 
  <dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1862-01-27' TEIform='date'>Monday,
  January 27, 1862.</date> <place teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>.</dateline> <p TEIform='p'>Lincoln writes an endorsement on a
  letter from Henry A. Wise, of the U.S. Navy's Ordnance &amp; Hydrography
  Bureau. Wise had forwarded a request from Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote, who is
  stationed at Cairo, Illinois. Foote explained, "As the mortar Boats have no
  accommodations for cooking, keeping or carrying provisions, the men must have a
  steamer for their accommodation. Shall I purchase or hire a steamer for them?"
  Lincoln replies, "If Flag-officer Foote, can find a suitable Boat which he can
  purchase at a fair price, let him purchase it at once." <bibl>Henry A. Wise to
  Abraham Lincoln, 26 January 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC; Abraham Lincoln to Henry A. Wise, 27 January 1862, IHi;
  <title>CW</title>, 5:112. </bibl></p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-28'>Tuesday, January 28, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Former Judge Gilbert Dean, counsel for Capt. Gordon, presents 
petition to President praying for life of client.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 28 January 1862; Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>, 19 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln submits to Senate treaty of extradition with Mexican 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=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A254' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 28 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:113.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Banks, in town for congressional committee meeting, calls on 
President by invitation.
<bibl default='NO'>Banks to Nicolay, 27 January 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President interviews Dr. Bellows and G. T. Strong of U.S. Sanitary Commission, 
regarding appointments to medical bureau.
<bibl default='NO'>George Templeton Strong, <title>Diary</title>, 4 vols., edited by Allen Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas (New York: Macmillan, 1952).</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Shakes hands for two hours in Blue Room during levee at White House. 
Promenades with wife of Sen. Chandler (Mich.) President retires early.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 29 January 1862; Washington Star, 29 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='New' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-01-29'>Wednesday, January 29, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln meets
  with Ellen Sherman, the wife of General William T. Sherman, and with her father
  Thomas Ewing, a former United States Senator from Ohio. Some in the press
  speculate that General Sherman is insane. Ellen Sherman acknowledges to Lincoln
  that her husband is "in low spirits and in poor health," but she writes to
  General Sherman that she asked the President "if he thought you insane when in
  command at Fort Corcoran. I told him you were no more so now. That I had known
  you since you were ten years old and you were the Same now that you had always
  been." Ellen Sherman believes that some of her husband's superiors, including
  Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas and former Secretary of War Simon Cameron, have
  not been supportive of Sherman. She writes him, "I told him you had enemies
  among your fellow Generals &amp; that the newspaper correspondants were mere
  tools...I told him that Adj. Genl. Thomas and Mr Cameron were inimical to you
  &amp; that they had placed you in a false light to him." Ellen Sherman states
  that she wanted to meet with Lincoln "to say a word against those who had
  conspired against you &amp;c &amp; in vindication of your name." She notes that
  Lincoln "seemed very anxious that we should believe that he felt kindly towards
  you." She adds, "The President is very friendly to you." <bibl default='NO'>Ellen Ewing
  Sherman to William T. Sherman, 29 January 1862, William T. Sherman Family
  Papers, University of Notre Dame Archives, Notre Dame, IN.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-30'>Thursday, January 30, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President works all morning at War Dept.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 31 January 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-01-31'>Friday, January 31, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President issues Special War Order No. 1. Army of Potomac formed into 
expedition to occupy "a point upon the Rail Road South Westward of 
what is known of Manassas Junction . . . to move before, or on, the 
22nd. day of February next."
<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%3A260' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>President's Special War Order No. 1</xref>, 31 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:115.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends additional documentation on "Trent" affair to Congress.
<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%3A261' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 31 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:115.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs that "Lane Expedition" against region west of Missouri and 
Kansas [Arkansas] be under supervision of Gen. McClellan and under 
command of Gen. Hunter.
<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%3A262' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 31 January 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:115-16.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves act authorizing President of U.S. in certain cases to take 
possession of railroad and telegraph lines, and for other purposes.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 334.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>