<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-01'>Wednesday, October 1, 1862.</date>
            <place key='39.3167, -77.7333' teiForm='name'>Harper's Ferry, VA</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 6 A.M. President and party leave on special train to visit 
headquarters of Army of Potomac and battlefields in vicinity of 
Antietam, Md. Party consists of Gen. McClernand, Capt. Wright Rives 
of McClernand's staff, Marshal Lamon, Ozias M. Hatch, Illinois politician, 
John W. Garrett, president of B. &amp; O. Railroad, and others. 
Arrives Harper's Ferry at noon. Maj. Lawrence Kip and Capt. Samuel S. 
Sumner escort President to Gen. Sumner's headquarters. In afternoon 
Gen. McClellan arrives from camp and with President reviews troops at 
Bolivar Heights. Lincoln spends night in Harper's Ferry.
<bibl default='NO'>Lamon, <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 147-48; LL, No. 1277; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 1, XIX, pt. 1, 10.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends letter of congratulation to King William I of Prussia on birth 
of grandson.
<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%3A978' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William I</xref>, 1 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:448-49.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-10-02'>Thursday, October 2, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='39.3167, -77.7333' teiForm='name'>Harper's
  Ferry, VA</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>General McClellan's Headquarters</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> In morning President and Gen. Sumner review troops at Loudoun
  Heights and Maryland Heights. President leaves Harper's Ferry at noon. Arrives
  headquarters, Army of Potomac, too late in day to review troops. Occupies tent
  for night next to Gen. McClellan's headquarters. Second Cavalry band serenades
  President. <bibl default='NO'>Lamon, <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>,
  147-48; LL, No. 1277; Boston Advertiser, 3 October 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Lincoln tabulates union troops at Antietam, Md., for total of 88,095. <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%3A977' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum
  on Troops at Antietam</xref>, 1-3 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:448.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-10-03'>Friday, October 3, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>General
  McClellan's Headquarters</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At sunrise President and O.
  M. Hatch walk to nearby hilltop. Surveying army camp, Lincoln comments: "This
  is General McClellan's bodyguard." During morning reviews Gen. Burnside's corps
  and cavalry near Antietam battleground. At midday President and McClellan ride
  in ambulances three miles to Bakerville, Md., for review of cavalry and troops
  of Gen. Fitz John Porter's and Gen. Franklin's corps. On three-mile ride
  Marshal Lamon sings several comic ballads [which later result in much public
  criticism of President]. Lincoln poses for half-dozen group pictures. Again
  sleeps in tent next to McClellan's headquarters. <bibl default='NO'>Lamon,
  <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 147-48; LL, No. 1277;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A977' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum
  Concerning Ward H. Lamon and the Antietam Episode</xref>, c. 12 September 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:548-50.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Asks Gen.
  Halleck if cartel to prevent use of paroled prisoners prohibits using them for
  fighting Indians. Paroled prisoner may not discharge any duties of a soldier. 
  <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%3A980' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 3 October 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:449.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-10-04'>Saturday, October 4, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>General
  McClellan's Headquarters</place>, <place key='39.4000, -77.4000' teiForm='name'>Frederick, MD</place>, and 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President and Gen. McClellan
  visit wounded in vicinity of headquarters. At Sharpsburg, Md., (Antietam)
  Lincoln visits "Fighting Dick" (Gen. Israel B.) Richardson who lies mortally
  wounded in farmhouse. At noon they ride to South Mountain battleground and
  conclude their survey. <bibl default='NO'>Lamon, <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 147-48; LL, No. 1277.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Enthusiastic reception with signal guns and parade welcomes President to
  Frederick about 4:45 P.M. He goes to residence of Mrs. Ramsey to see Gen.
  George L. Hartsuff who is ill from wounds received at Antietam. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6 October 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Addresses brief remarks
  to crowd assembled in front of house. About five minutes later speaks to crowd
  at railway station. At 10 P.M. special train bearing Presidential party arrives
  in Washington. <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1277;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A981' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Frederick, Maryland</xref>, 4 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:450;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A982' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Second
  Speech at Frederick, Maryland</xref>, 4 October 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:450.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Library of
  Congress sends "Herbert's Field Sports, 2 v., Fishing, I v." to White House.
  [Henry William Herbert, Frank Forester's Field Sports of the United States . .
  ., New York, 1858; Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States . .
  ., New York, 1859.] <bibl default='NO'>Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the
  Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> sends 1,000 lbs. grapes to military
  hospitals during week. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 7 October
  1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-10-06'>Monday, October 6, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Gov. Morton (Ind.) and Sec. Chase request President
  to furlough Indiana soldiers home to vote. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 499.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Former Sen. Walker (Miss.), who sent President pamphlet on subject two weeks
  before, discusses with Lincoln conclusive character of decisions of accounting
  offices of Treasury. <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%3A984' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum</xref>,
  [c. 6 October 1862], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:451.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> President instructs Gen. Halleck to telegraph Gen. McClellan to "cross
  the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south." <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%3A987' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 7 October 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:452.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sec. Welles
  out riding meets President. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln receives
  September salary warrant for $2,022.33 which is $61 under previous warrant as
  result of 3 per cent income tax deduction. <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='1862-10-07'>Tuesday, October 7, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln not at White House in forenoon, presumably with Gen. Halleck.
<bibl default='NO'>Cox to Lincoln, 7 October 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meeting at noon features President's account of visit to 
headquarters of Army of Potomac. Some attention given to movements 
toward Charleston and Mississippi.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 500-1.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. McClellan: "You wish to see your family, and I wish to 
oblige you. It might be left to your own discretion&#8212;certainly 
so, if Mrs. M. could meet you here at Washington."
<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%3A987' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 7 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:452.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-08'>Wednesday, October 8, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President answers request of T. H. Clay at Cincinnati: "You 
<uLine>can not</uLine> have reflected seriously when you ask that I 
shall order Gen. [George W.] Morgan's command to Kentucky as a favor, 
because they have marched from Cumberland Gap." War does not "admit 
of holy days. On Morgan's command, . . . depends the question whether 
the enemy will get to the Ohio River in another place."
<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%3A988' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas H. Clay</xref>, 8 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:452-53.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Grant: "I congratulate you and all concerned on your 
recent battles and victories [Corinth, Miss.] How does it all sum up? 
I especially regret the death of Gen. [Pleasant A.] Hackelman 
[Hackleman]; and am very anxious to know the condition of Gen. 
[Richard J.] Oglesby, who is an intimate personal friend."
<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%3A989' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 8 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:453.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-09'>Thursday, October 9, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Elbridge Meconkey interviews President for appointment as quartermaster.
<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%3A993' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Montgomery C. Meigs</xref>, 9 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:454.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Wool visits Lincoln and requests additional aide-de-camp.
<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%3A995' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 9 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:455-56.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Capt. James J. Lyon delivers message from Gen. Sigel to President.
<bibl default='NO'>Schurz to Lincoln, 9 October 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='1862-10-10'>Friday, October 10, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cabinet meeting on subject of trade at Norfolk. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President inquires of Gen. Curtis at St. Louis whether Cherokee Indian
  regiments at Fort Scott, Kans., could not occupy Cherokee country "consistently
  with the public service." <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%3A996' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Samuel R. Curtis</xref>, 10 October 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:456.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Directs
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> to admit persons from Southern
  states found in Mississippi into organization of brigade of Union volunteers in
  northern Mississippi. <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%3A997' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 10 October 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:456-57.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-11'>Saturday, October 11, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln telegraphs Gen. Boyle at Louisville, Ky.: "Please send any 
news you have from Gen. Buell to-day."
<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%3A998' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jeremiah T. Boyle</xref>, 11 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:457.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-12'>Sunday, October 12, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President inquires of Gen. Curtis at St. Louis: "Would the completion 
of the railroad some distance further in the direction of 
Springfield, Mo, be of any military advantage to you? Please answer."
<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%3A1004' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel R. Curtis</xref>, 12 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:459-60.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Prods Gen. Boyle: "We are very anxious to hear from Gen. Buell's 
Army. We have had nothing since day-before yesterday. Have you 
anything?"
<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%3A1003' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jeremiah T. Boyle</xref>, 12 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:458-59.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-13'>Monday, October 13, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and Vice President Hamlin "talk all night" at Soldiers' 
Home about military situation and Gen. McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>Charles E. Hamlin, <title>Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin</title> (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1899), 442.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln again urges McClellan to fight.
<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%3A1005' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 13 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:460-62.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-14'>Tuesday, October 14, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President asks Atty. Gen. Bates to give an opinion on President's 
power to fill vacancy on Supreme Court during recess of Senate.
<bibl default='NO'>Note, 15 October 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders military authorities to assist commissioner of public 
buildings to remove army bakery from basement of Capitol.
<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%3A1008' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order to Remove Bakeries from the Capitol</xref>, 14 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:463.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests all having military and naval authority under U.S. within 
state of Louisiana to aid former Cong. John E. Bouligny (La.) of that 
state in elections of members to Congress of U.S., and perhaps 
legislature, state officers, and U.S. senators.
<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%3A1006' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler, George F. Shepley and Others</xref>, 14 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:462-63.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends note: "Capt. Dahlgren may let 'Tad' have a little gun that he 
can not hurt himself with."
<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%3A1007' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 14 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:463.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-15'>Wednesday, October 15, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
F. S. Asta Buruaga, charg&#233; d'Affairs of Chile, accompanied by 
Sec. Seward, visits President.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 16 October 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='1862-10-16'>Thursday, October 16, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Prentiss and group of officers captured at Shiloh visit President.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 16 October 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews D. R. Goodloe, chairman, Commission for 
Emancipation of Slaves in District of Columbia, and William H. 
Channing, pastor of Washington Unitarian Church, 6th and D Sts. NW., 
regarding Channing's appointment as chaplain.
<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%3A1012' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of William H. Channing</xref>, 16 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:464-65.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-10-17'>Friday, October 17, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Commodore Nutt, publicized "pigmy" accompanied by
  showman P. T. Barnum, gives command performance at White House. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 17 October 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet meeting again
  on subject of trade at Norfolk. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President directs
  Attorney General to prepare commission for Judge Davis as Associate Justice of
  Supreme Court. <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%3A1015' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edward Bates</xref>, 17 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:465-66.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gen. Corcoran
  asks President to give Lt. Morgan Doheny, 42d New York Volunteers, commission
  in regular army. <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%3A1018' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 17 October 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:466.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  thanks author, John F. Callan, for copy of "The Military Laws 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=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A1016' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John F. Callan</xref>, 17 October 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:466.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-18'>Saturday, October 18, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Baltimore committee complains to President that half-sick soldiers 
are denied hospitalization.
<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%3A1019' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William A. Hammond</xref>, 18 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:467.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln joins Secs. Chase and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 in Gen. Halleck's office to 
examine Confederate dispatch purchased in England. Investigation 
reveals forgery.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New' TEIform='div2'> 
  <dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1862-10-19' TEIform='date'>Sunday,
  October 19, 1862.</date> <place teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>.</dateline> <p TEIform='p'>Lincoln writes to his friend David Davis,
  who is the judge of Illinois's eighth judicial circuit. Lincoln encloses an
  appointment of Davis as "an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
  United States." Lincoln adds, "After the fall election in Illinois shall be
  past, I shall be very glad to see you generally, and particularly on a matter
  personal to myself." <bibl>Abraham Lincoln to David Davis, 19 October 1862,
  IHi; <title>CW</title>, 10:160;
  <xref url='http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A1015'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edward Bates</xref>, 17 October 1862, IHi; <title>CW</title>,
  5:465-66.</bibl></p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-20'>Monday, October 20, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President orders provisional court of record for Louisiana and 
appoints Charles A. Peabody of New York to be judge.
<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%3A1021' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Executive Order Establishing A Provisional Court in Louisiana</xref>, 20 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:467-68.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. John Cochrane discusses military situation with Lincoln and 
urges replacement of Gen. Halleck with Gen. McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>Cochrane to Lincoln, 26 October 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln deposits May salary warrant for $2,083.34 in Riggs Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Endorses expedition of Gen. McClernand to states of Indiana, Illinois 
and Iowa for purpose of organizing troops: "To the end, that when a 
sufficient force, not required by the operations of General Grant's 
command, shall be raised, an expedition may be organized under 
General McClernand's command against Vicksburg and to clear the 
Mississippi river and open navigation to New Orleans."
<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%3A1022' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. McClernand</xref>, 20 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:468-69.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes memorandum on Army of Potomac showing grand total of 231,997 
troops of which 144,662 are fit for duty. Confederate Army shows 
total of 89,563.
<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%3A1023' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum on Army of the Potomac</xref>, [20 October] 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:469; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A1024' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum on Confederate Army</xref>, [20 October] 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:469-70.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Publishes notice that draftees who may claim exemption on account of 
alienage should apply to State Dept. or through their ministers or 
consuls.
<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%3A1025' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Notice to Aliens</xref>, 20 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:470.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-21'>Tuesday, October 21, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Halleck confers with President about Gen. McClellan's plans and 
inactivity.
<bibl default='NO'>Halleck to McClellan, 21 October 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln requests Gen. Grant, Mil. Gov. Johnson, and all having 
military, naval, and civil authority under U.S. within state of 
Tennessee to aid Thomas R. Smith, citizen of Tennessee, in elections 
of members to Congress, and perhaps U.S. senators, state officers, 
and legislature.
<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%3A1027' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson and Others</xref>, 21 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:470-71.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-22'>Wednesday, October 22, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and party reach Alexandria, Va., about 2:30 P.M. aboard 
steamer "Mount Washington," to review Gen. Sickle's division near 
contraband camp. Returns at dusk.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 25 October 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President directs 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to stop individuals from imposing 
terms on purchase of cotton not contained in government regulations.
<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%3A1031' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 22 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:472.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-23'>Thursday, October 23, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cong. Kelley (Pa.) interviews Lincoln again regarding promotion of 
Col. Isaac J. Wistar.
<bibl default='NO'>Kelley to Kimber, 23 October 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Prof. MacLeod hands President letter from Rev. J. B. Pinney, 
secretary, New York State Colonization Society, urging colonization 
of Negroes in Liberia.
<bibl default='NO'>Whittlesey to Lincoln, 23 October 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='1862-10-24'>Friday, October 24, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Charles P. McIlvaine, Episcopal Bishop of Ohio,
  asks President to name George T. Harris to West Point cadetship. <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%3A1036' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum:
  Appointment of George T. Harris</xref>, 24 October 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:473.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  recommends: "The bearer of this, William Johnson (colored), came with me from
  Illinois; and is a worthy man, as I believe." <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%3A1038' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Recommendation
  for William H. Johnson</xref>, 24 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:474.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-25'>Saturday, October 25, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meeting subject is case of Gen. Jefferson C. Davis who shot 
to death Gen. William Nelsonfollowing reprimand by Davis for alleged 
negligence.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln wires Gen. McClellan: "I have just read your despatch about 
sore tongued and fatiegued [<uLine>sic</uLine>] horses. Will you 
pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the 
battle of Antietam that fatigue anything?"
<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%3A1039' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 24 [25] October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:474-75.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> is serenaded in evening at Metropolitan Hotel in New 
York. Speeches are made from balcony of hotel. Gen. Scott and 
Archbishop Hughes pay their respects.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 28 October 1862.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-26'>Sunday, October 26, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Mrs. Eliza P. Gurney, wife of Joseph J. Gurney, English Quaker, holds 
prayer meeting in President's office. Lincoln says: "If I had had my 
way, this war would never have been commenced; . . . but we find it 
still continues; and we must believe that He permits it for some wise 
purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us."
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 26 October 1862, John G. Nicolay 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%3A1047' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Eliza P. Gurney</xref>, 26 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:478.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Records his thoughts on the Divine Will: "The will of God prevails. 
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the 
will of God. Both <uLine>may</uLine> be, and one <uLine>must</uLine> 
be wrong. God can not be <uLine>for</uLine>, and 
<uLine>against</uLine> the same thing at the same time. . . . By his 
mere quiet power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have 
either <uLine>saved</uLine> or <uLine>destroyed</uLine> the Union 
without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And having begun He 
could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest 
proceeds." [Lincoln did not date the original manuscript. Nicolay 
&amp; Hay gives it a tentative date of September 30, 1862. CW gives 
it a tentative date of September 2, 1862. The date of October 26, 
1862 is selected here in order to associate the document with 
Lincoln's interview with Mrs. Gurney of this day.]
<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%3A893' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Meditation on the Divine Will</xref>, [2 September 1862], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:403-4.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"The President keeps poking sharp sticks under little Mac's ribs."
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Hay, 26 October 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. McClellan: "[Gen. James E. B.] Stuart's [CSA] cavalry 
outmarched ours, . . . will not a movement of our army be a relief to 
the cavalry, . . . But I am so rejoiced to learn . . . that you begin 
crossing the river this morning."
<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%3A1046' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 26 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:477.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-27'>Monday, October 27, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President exchanges communications with Gen. McClellan regarding 
cavalry horses and filling old regiments with drafted men. Army of 
Potomac commences crossing river to Virginia.
<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%3A1049' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 27 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:479; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A1050' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 27 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:479.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-28'>Tuesday, October 28, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Members of Synod of Pennsylvania present to President resolutions 
supporting war.
<bibl default='NO'>Smith to Lincoln, 28 October 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='1862-10-29'>Wednesday, October 29, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President recognizes George H. Garlichs as consul
  of Kingdom of Netherlands at Cincinnati for Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 29 October 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Announces allotment of
  justices of Supreme Court to their respective circuits. <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%3A1054' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Allotment
  of Supreme Court Judges to Circuits</xref>, 29 October 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:480-81.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, accompanied by Gen. Scott, visits Brooklyn
  Navy Yard, N.Y., and goes aboard U.S.S. "North Carolina." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 30 October 1862.</bibl>] </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  telegraphs Gen. McClellan: "I am much pleased with the movement of the Army.
  When you get entirely across the river let me know. What do you know of the
  enemy?" <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%3A1055' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 29 October 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:481.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-30'>Thursday, October 30, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends congratulations to Frederic, Grand Duke of Baden, on 
marriage of Princess Leopoldine of Baden.
<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%3A1057' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Frederic, Grand Duke of Baden</xref>, 30 October 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:482-83.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-10-31'>Friday, October 31, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln confers with Mayor Richard Wallach (Washington), president of 
council, and special committee about construction of railroad from 
Point of Rocks, Md., to Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 1 November 1862; 
Petition, 28 October 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>