<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-01'>Monday, December 1, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Joint congressional committee announces to President that Congress is 
ready to receive communications.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Journal</title>, 6.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President communicates Second Annual Message to Congress: Foreign 
relations are more satisfactory than might be expected. Treaty with 
Great Britain for suppression of slave trade is in operation with 
prospect of success. Negro colonies from U.S. may soon migrate to 
Liberia and Haiti. Commercial relations with leading nations are 
undisturbed. System of banking associations will circulate notes of 
uniform appearance and security. Treasury receipts amounted to $583 
million, expenditures to $570 million. Public lands are no longer 
source of revenue. System for Indian affairs may need remodeling. 
Progress has been made on construction of Pacific railroad. 
Department of Agriculture has been organized. President recommends 
that Congress propose three amendments to Constitution: 1. Every 
State that abolishes slavery before January 1, 1900, shall receive 
compensation from the U.S. 2. All slaves who shall have enjoyed 
actual freedom by chances of war shall be forever free. 3. Congress 
may appropriate money, and otherwise provide for colonizing free 
colored persons with their own consent, at any place or places 
outside U.S.
<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%3A1126' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Annual Message to Congress</xref>, 1 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:518-37.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President writes Judge Adv. Gen. Joseph Holt: "Three hundred Indians 
have been sentenced to death in Minnesota by a Military Commission, 
and execution only awaits my action. I wish your legal opinion 
whether if I should conclude to execute only a part of them, I must 
myself designate which."
<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%3A1127' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 1 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:537-38.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-02'>Tuesday, December 2, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In afternoon Lincoln repeats to Sen. Browning (Ill.) at White House, 
"McClellan is too slow."
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Informs 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 of order that officers of military forces 
organized by Gov. Gamble (Mo.) may be removed and resignations 
accepted by Gov. Gamble, whose action will be confirmed by War Dept.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A1128' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 2 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:538.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-03'>Wednesday, December 3, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President recommends to Congress that $9,500 be paid owner of French 
brig "Jules et Marie" for damage done by U.S.S. "San Jacinto."
<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%3A1130' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 3 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:539.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
White House detectives arrest Francis X. Rabstock for annoying President.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 4 December 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> sends bouquet to Mrs. Fox.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-12-04'>Thursday, December 4, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln endorses John W. True of 54th Regiment
  Illinois Volunteers: "I personally know the writer of this to be a good man." 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A1132' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 4 December 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:540.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-05'>Friday, December 5, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen. Sumner (Mass.) interviews President in interest of Gen. Butler.
<bibl default='NO'>Benjamin F. Butler, <title>Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences . . . Butler's Book</title> (Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892), 552.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President receives Senate resolution requesting "all information in 
his possession touching the late Indian barbarities in the State of 
Minnesota."
<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%3A1134' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Caleb B. Smith</xref>, 5 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:540-41.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives November salary warrant for $2,022.34.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits $75 in Springfield Marine Bank, interest on Cline note.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-06'>Saturday, December 6, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President orders execution on December 19, 1862 of 39 Indians 
sentenced to be hanged for barbarities in Minnesota.
<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%3A1137' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry H. Sibley</xref>, 6 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:542-43.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. John B. Henderson (Mo.) and Cong. Thomas L. Price (Mo.) 
interview President on behalf of Rufus K. Sanders.
<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%3A1138' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 6 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:543.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-07'>Sunday, December 7, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
5 P.M. Sunday dinner party at White House includes Sen. Browning 
(Ill.), Sen. Harris (N.Y.), and members of President's staff.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 7 December 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-08'>Monday, December 8, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen. Doolittle (Wis.) reviews with President case of Gen. C. S. Hamilton.
<bibl default='NO'>Howe to Lincoln, 10 December 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln asks Capt. Dahlgren to see him at once.
<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%3A1142' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. Dahlgren</xref>, 8 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:545.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends recommendation to Congress on behalf of Comdr. John L. Worden.
<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%3A1145' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 8 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:547.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Borrows "Lyrics by the letter 'H'" from Library of Congress. 
[Charles Graham Halpine, Lyrics by the Letter H, New York and 
Cincinnati, 1854.]
<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='1862-12-09'>Tuesday, December 9, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends to Senate correspondence relative to attempted 
seizure of Joseph Fauchet, minister from France, by commander of 
"Africa" [on August 1, 1795].
<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%3A1147' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 9 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:547-48.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cautions Gen. Henry H. Sibley not to hang innocent Indian as a result 
of confusing similar names.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Sibley, 9 December 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $1,500 from Springfield Marine Bank, as personal loan.
<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='1862-12-10'>Wednesday, December 10, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen. Wilmot (Pa.) asks President to appoint his son, Thomas M. 
Wilmot, to West Point.
<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%3A1151' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Thomas M. Wilmot</xref>, 10 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:549.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President sends communication to House of Representatives regarding 
arrest of part of crew of U.S.S. "Sumter."
<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%3A1150' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 10 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:549.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recommends to Congress that vote of thanks be given Lt. Comdr. George 
U. Morris (USN.) for valiant action against "Merrimac" at Hampton 
Roads.
<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%3A1152' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 10 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:549-50.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Timothy O. Howe (Wis.) and two colleagues call on Lincoln in 
interest of Gen. Egbert L. Viele.
<bibl default='NO'>Howe to Lincoln, 10 December 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes J. K. Dubois: "In the summer of 1859 when Mr. Freeman 
visited Springfield, Illinois, in relation to the McCallister &amp; 
Stebbins bonds I promised that, . . . I would ask the members of the 
Legislature to give him a full and fair hearing of his case. . . . I 
sincerely wish it may be given 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%3A1149' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jesse K. Dubois</xref>, 10 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:548-49.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-12-11'>Thursday, December 11, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President recognizes Ludwig von Baumbach, consul of
  Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt for Wisconsin and Minnesota, and B. B. Haagsma
  consul of Netherlands for Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star,
  11 December 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Goes for drive in carriage. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits to Senate treaty with Republic of
  Liberia and information touching Indian barbarities in Minnesota. <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%3A1153' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 11 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:550;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A1154' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 11 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:550-51.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Recommends to
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton:</person> "John Speed named within [2d Lt.
  John Speed, son of James Speed], is a son of a particular friend of mine." 
  <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%3A1155' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 11 December 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:552.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-12'>Friday, December 12, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President at War Dept. early to get news of Army of Potomac near 
Fredericksburg, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 15 December 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves action of Sec. Welles in dismissing Comdr. George H. Preble 
(USN) for failure to do his duty in permitting Confederate ship 
"Florida" to run blockade at Mobile, Ala.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
J. W. Forney and friends from Pennsylvania call at White House and 
present cane to President.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 12 December 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Maj. Moses Gist of 4th Delaware Infantry reports to President on 
firing tests given Peckham rifle cartridges designed to make ramrods 
unnecessary in loading by muzzle. They drop to bottom of bore and 
stay in place by means of powder released from cartridge in loading.
<bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 220-22.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 6 P.M. President talks to Sen. Browning (Ill.) about army matters and Gen. 
Cassius M. Clay.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
John Nicolay makes trip to Fredericksburg; sent by President with 
letter of introduction to Gen. Burnside.
<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%3A1156' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ambrose E. Burnside</xref>, 12 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:552.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln forwards to Congress three swords formerly belonging to Gen. 
David E. Twiggs (CSA) and sent from New Orleans by Gen. Butler.
<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%3A1157' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 12 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:552-53.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President answers Mayor Fernando Wood's (N.Y.) proposal for armistice 
and peace effort: "The war would cease on the part of the United 
States," if the people of the Southern States would cease resistance 
and maintain national authority. "Nor do I think it proper now to 
suspend military operations to try any experiment of negotiation."
<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%3A1158' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Fernando Wood</xref>, 12 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:553-54.</bibl>
         </p>
         <quote>
            <p>
[Union forces under General Ambrose E. Burnside are defeated at 
Fredericksburg, Va.]
</p>
         </quote>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-13'>Saturday, December 13, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President decides that Thomas Thoroughman disloyalty case may be 
settled at discretion of Abraham Jonas and Henry Asbury, lawyers of 
Quincy, Ill.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A2' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 13 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:1-2.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Notifies Senate that name of Capt. William M. Glendy (USN) has been 
withdrawn from list of promotions because he is eligible for 
retirement.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 13 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:1.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-12-14'>Sunday, December 14, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President summons Gen. McDowell and Simon Cameron
  to White House. Gen. Heintzelman interviews President prior to McDowell's
  arrival. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman 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=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A3' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 14 December 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:2.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gen. Herman
  Haupt calls at White House. Meets <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>.
  Goes with President to Gen. Halleck's office for conference. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Correspondence, 26, Gideon Welles Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln telegraphs John Nicolay at Gen.
  Burnside's headquarters: "What news have you?" <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A5' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John G. Nicolay</xref>, [14 December 1862],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:2.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> About 10 P.M.
  Sen. Wilson (Mass.) brings H. Villard, war correspondent present at Battle of
  Fredericksburg, to see President. <bibl default='NO'>Henry Villard, <title>Memoirs of Henry
  Villard</title>, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904), 1:389-91.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> 
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, accompanied by Sen.
  Browning (Ill.) attends church. Tells Browning President would like to have him
  in cabinet. <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-15'>Monday, December 15, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President enters into agreement with Capt. Isaac R. Diller of 
Philadelphia to make further tests of new formula gunpowder.
<bibl default='NO'>Report of Diller to Lincoln, 31 October 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln 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=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A7' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isaac R. Diller</xref>, 15 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:3-5.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Sen. Browning (Ill.) discusses with Lincoln bill creating 
new state of West Virginia.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-16'>Tuesday, December 16, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President approves change in date for execution of Minnesota Indians 
from December 19, 1862 to December 26, 1862.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A11' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry H. Sibley</xref>, 16 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:6-7.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders Gen. Curtis to investigate evacuation incident involving 
Nathaniel W. Watkins, halfbrother of Henry Clay, "and restore the old 
man to his home, if the public interest will admit."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A10' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel R. Curtis</xref>, 16 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:6.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-17'>Wednesday, December 17, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"President sends much for Gus [Asst. Sec. Fox] lately&#8212;that 
indicates he is in trouble."
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"The President remarked to me the other night . . . that he was very 
anxious to have us retake Sumter, &amp; that he would man it with 
negroes . . . President is exceedingly disturbed."
<bibl default='NO'>John M. Forbes, <title>Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes</title>, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899), 1:343.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President arranges meeting with senatorial committee for tomorrow evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 267.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening receives from hands of Sen. King (N.Y.) resignations of 
Sec. Seward and Asst. Sec. Frederick W. Seward following action of 
Republican senatorial caucus.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Scrapbook clipping</title>, 23 December 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Washington Star, 19 December 1862; Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>, 19 December 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Haupt visits President in evening and interrupts conversation 
between Cong. Covode (Pa.) and Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>Correspondence, 26-27, Gideon Welles Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gen. Curtis: "Could the civil authority be 
reintroduced into Missouri in lieu of the military to any extent, 
with advantage and safety?"
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A15' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel R. Curtis</xref>, 17 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:8.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Declines to sign memorandum on behalf of "The colored man William 
Johnson [who] came with me from Illinois" for fear it will be 
construed as an order.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A16' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning William H. Johnson</xref>, 17 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:8-9.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-12-18'>Thursday, December 18, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At 10 A.M. President receives committee, consisting
  of Congs. Crittenden (Ky.), John W. Crisfield (Md.), and William A. Hall (Mo.),
  to present views of people in Border States. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 19
  December 1862;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A14' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John J. Crittenden, John W. Crisfield, and William A. Hall</xref>,
  17 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:8.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Asks opinion of Gov. Gamble (Mo.) on ability of enrolled militia alone to
  maintain order north of Missouri River; if so, might other forces be moved
  south of river? <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A18' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Hamilton R. Gamble</xref>, 18 December 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:9.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits to
  Congress documentation "relative to certain valuable publications presented to
  the Library of Congress" by British Museum. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A19' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 18 December 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:9-10.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Committee of
  nine from Republican senatorial caucus meets with Lincoln at 7 P.M. and confers
  several hours on resignation of Sec. Seward and reconstruction of cabinet. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Collamer to Lincoln, 18 December 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of
  Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; <title>Scrapbook
  clipping</title>, 23 December 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=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A17' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Jacob Collamer</xref>, 18 December 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:9.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Late in evening
  Sen. Browning (Ill.) calls on Lincoln, D. W. Wise of Boston present. Lincoln
  will not discuss Wise's proposition for preparing biography. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-19'>Friday, December 19, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President calls special meeting of cabinet in morning to consider 
report from Senate caucus committee.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Meets Sen. Browning (Ill.) between White House and War Dept. in 
afternoon and talks briefly.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 7:30 P.M. cabinet, except Sec. Seward, meets jointly with members 
of Senate Republican caucus committee and discusses reconstruction of 
cabinet until midnight.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Postmaster Gen. Blair offers to resign, but President asks him not to 
cause any more trouble.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln replies to Gen. Burnside: "Come of course, if in your own 
judgment it is safe to do so."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A21' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ambrose E. Burnside</xref>, 19 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:10.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders Gen. Curtis to confer with Gov. Gamble (Mo.) and telegraph 
decision on question whether quiet can be maintained in all counties 
north of Missouri River by enrolled militia.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A22' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel R. Curtis</xref>, 19 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:10-11.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-20'>Saturday, December 20, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sec. Chase hands his resignation to President 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=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A23' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 20 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:11.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln sends note to Chase: "Please do not go out of town."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A23' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 20 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:11.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles calls on Lincoln after breakfast and urges him not to 
accept Sec. Seward's resignation. Calls again after visit with Seward 
and reports that Seward has decided to withdraw resignation.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President considers accepting resignations of Seward and Chase and 
notifies them "that the public interest does not admit of it. I 
therefore have to request that you will resume the duties of your 
Departments respectively."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 23 December 1862; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A26' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 20 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:12-13.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Gen. Burnside arrives from headquarters of Army of Potomac 
for conference with President.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A21' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ambrose E. Burnside</xref>, 19 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:10.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-21'>Sunday, December 21, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> in Philadelphia at Continental Hotel.
<bibl default='NO'>Helm, <title corresp='books_Helm'>Mary</title>, 207.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-22'>Monday, December 22, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Capt. Dahlgren at White House about 10 A.M. at request of President, 
to observe testing of new gunpowder. J. W. Forney with Lincoln to 
confer on cabinet changes.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and Gen. Burnside hold military conference with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 at his residence.
<bibl default='NO'>John M. Forbes, <title>Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes</title>, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899), 1:344.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln congratulates Army of Potomac for courage displayed at Battle 
of Fredericksburg.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A27' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Congratulations to the Army of the Potomac</xref>, 22 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:13-14.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Acknowledges plan of Gens. Franklin and William F. Smith for Army of 
Potomac to advance on Richmond by way of James River.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A29' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William B. Franklin and William F. Smith</xref>, 22 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:15-16.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends to Senate report of former Sen. Johnson's (Md.) activities as 
U.S. commissioner at New Orleans during July 1862.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A30' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 22 December 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:16.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Discusses possible cabinet shake-up with Sen. Browning (Ill.) in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> borrows "Scott Poetical Works" from Library of Congress.
<bibl default='NO'>Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[It is not possible to specify which edition of Sir Walter Scott, 
Poetical Works was ordered.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-12-23'>Tuesday, December 23, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President sends for Asst. Sec. Fox before
  breakfast. Reason unknown. <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library
  of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Requests written opinions from
  members of cabinet on admission of West Virginia into Union. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A33' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Members of the Cabinet</xref>, 23 December 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:17.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives
  memorial from Mil. Gov. Andrew Johnson and prominent men of state asking that
  Emancipation Proclamation not apply to Tennessee. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 4
  December 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Considers proposal of Gen. Haupt to form
  military council of seven to plan campaigns and determine policies. <bibl default='NO'>Haupt
  to Lincoln, 22 December 1862, Edwin M. Stanton Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> John Pitcher, boyhood friend, calls on Lincoln
  about son recovering from wound received at Battle of Cedar Mountain. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Pitcher to Lincoln, 25 December 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of
  Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> prepares to serve Christmas dinner
  to wounded in hospitals. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 24 December
  1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Irwin withdraws $9 from Springfield Marine Bank,
  interest on scholarship at Illinois State University. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>] </p>
         <p>
  Lincoln concludes letter of condolence to Fanny McCullough, daughter of former
  court clerk of Bloomington, Ill., killed in action, December 5, 1862: "The
  memory of your dear Father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad sweet
  feeling in your heart, of a purer, and holier sort than you have known before."
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A32' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Fanny McCullough</xref>, 23 December 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:16-17.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-12-24'>Wednesday, December 24, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends congratulations to Francis Joseph I, Emperor of 
Austria, o