<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-01'>Saturday, February 1, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes letter of sympathy to Queen Victoria of England on 
death of husband.
<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%3A265' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Queen Victoria</xref>, 1 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:117-18.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Discusses with Sec. Seward and Cong. Ely (N.Y.), recently in prison 
in Richmond, advisability of placing Confederate privateers detained 
in New York and Philadelphia harbors on footing of prisoners of war.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 3 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs U.S. Marshal for District of Columbia to refrain from 
arresting or committing fugitive slaves.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 1 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In afternoon Seward escorts Baron F. von Gerolt, Prussian minister, 
to White House for ceremonial call on President.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 1 February 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President sends for Asst. Sec. Fox, who arrives after dinner.
<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='1862-02-02'>Sunday, February 2, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Sen. Sumner (Mass.) introduces Ralph Waldo Emerson,
  poet and philosopher, to President, who reviews case of slave trader Capt.
  Gordon during interview. <bibl default='NO'>Ralph Waldo Emerson, <title>The Journals of
  Ralph Waldo Emerson</title>, 10 vols., edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo
  Emerson Forbes (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909-1914),
  9:375-76.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In conversation with Cong. Conway (Kans.) Lincoln
  states that Gen. Lane was appointed with understanding that he serve under Gen.
  Hunter. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 3 February 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-02-03'>Monday, February 3, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p>President Lincoln replies to the
  King of Siam for gifts including "a sword" and "two elephant tusks." Lincoln
  accepts the items for the "American People," and not for his "personal" use.
  Lincoln declines the King's offer of some elephants, explaining, "Our political
  jurisdiction...does not reach a latitude so low as to favor the multiplication
  of the elephant, and steam on land, as well as on water, has been our best and
  most efficient agent of transportation in internal commerce." <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%3A269' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the King of Siam</xref>, 3 February 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:125-26.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes
  Gen. McClellan: "You and I have distinct, and different plans for a movement of
  the Army of the Potomac&#8212;yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the
  Rappahannock to Urbana, and across land to the terminus of the Railroad on the
  York River&#8212;, mine to move directly to a point on the Railroad South West
  of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following
  questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours." <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%3A267' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 3 February 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:118-25.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gov.
  Morton (Ind.) calls on President and asks to withdraw his recommendation of
  Col. George W. Hazzard for brigadier general. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A270' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 3 February 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:126.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-04'>Tuesday, February 4, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President grants Capt. Gordon stay of execution until February 21, 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=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A273' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Stay of Execution for Nathaniel Gordon</xref>, 4 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:128-29.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Gordon was hanged February 21, 1862.] Recommends "that Captain 
Samuel F. DuPont [USN] receive a vote of thanks of Congress for his 
services and gallantry, displayed in the capture of Forts Walker and 
Beauregard."
<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%3A272' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 4 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:127-28.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $2 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> cancels weekly reception because of private party on 5th.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 1 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-05'>Wednesday, February 5, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President recognizes Herman Michels as consul for Kingdom of Saxony 
for California.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 11 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits $680, payment on notes of N. W. Edwards, in 
Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
President receives January salary warrant for $2,083.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> gives White House ball, feature heretofore untried in 
social customs of First Lady. Issues invitations to 600-700 people. 
"A very respectable if not a brilliant success. The East Room was 
filled with well dressed guests looking very beautiful and the 
[midnight] supper was magnificent."
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 2 February 1862, 11 February 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"Most superb affair of its kind ever seen here."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-06'>Thursday, February 6, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President approves withholding pensions of Southern sympathizers.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 7 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-07'>Friday, February 7, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews delegation from Congress interested in settling 
argument between Gen. Hunter and Gen. Lane.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 8 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Spends most of time with son Willie who is critically ill.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 11 February 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Borrows "Emerson's Representative Men" from Library of Congress.
<bibl default='NO'>[Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men: Seven Lectures, N.Y., 
1858.]</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate "correspondence relating to the presentation of 
American citizens to the court of France."
<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%3A277' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 7 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:130; 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='1862-02-08'>Saturday, February 8, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President receives petition from citizens of
  Colorado requesting removal of Gov. Gilpin (Colo. Terr.) following repudiation
  of government drafts issued by him to pay for military equipment, and
  appointment of W. Larimer, Jr. <bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;WR RG 107, Off. Sec. War,
  Letters Received, Box 1.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Usual Saturday reception is not held
  because Willie has typhoid fever. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 8 February 1862; N.Y.
  Tribune, 11 February 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Irwin withdraws $24 from
  Springfield Marine Bank to pay insurance on Lincoln Springfield home.] 
  <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>,
  177.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes Gen. McClellan: "Have you any farther news
  from the West [Gens. Halleck and Buell]? Have you heard from the Canal-boats
  [to form a bridge across Potomac at Liverpool Point]? Have you determined, as
  yet, upon the contemplated movement we last talked of [Gen. Hooker]?" <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%3A278' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 8 February 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:130.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-09'>Sunday, February 9, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Prayer for President omitted from church service results in arrest of 
Alexandria, Va., clergyman.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 10 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
During Sunday afternoon in War Dept. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 accuses Thomas T. 
Eckert, superintendent of military telegraphs, of neglecting his 
duties. Lincoln is present and defends Eckert.
<bibl default='NO'>David H. Bates, <title>Lincoln Stories Told by him in the Military Office in the War Department during the Civil War</title> (New York: Rudge, 1926), 52-53.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-10'>Monday, February 10, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Willie is reported much better today, but Tad is thought to have 
contracted same illness.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 10 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President not attending to much public business owing to severe illness of son.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 12 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-11'>Tuesday, February 11, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President meets with Sec. Seward and Sens. Wade (Ohio) and Chandler 
(Mich.) to hear stenographic report of testimony relative to Gen. 
Stone.
<bibl default='NO'>Committee on Conduct of War, <title corresp='books_Congress2'>Report</title> (1863), 1:82.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gives "pretty much all his attention" to Willie and Tad who are ill.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 11 February 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Usual Tuesday reception at White House not held because of Willie's illness.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 10 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-12'>Wednesday, February 12, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President transmits to Congress treaty with King of Hanover for 
abolition of "Stade Dues."
<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%3A281' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 12 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:131-32.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Spends much time with sick son Willie.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 21 February 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <quote>
            <p>
[During the period February 13, 1862-February 16, 1862, action 
against Fort Donelson, Tennessee results in its surrender to the 
Union commander, Ulysses S. Grant.]
</p>
         </quote>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-13'>Thursday, February 13, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President appears before House Judiciary Committee in matter of 
premature publication of last Annual Message.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 14 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
His two youngest children continue ill of typhoid fever.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 13 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
White House borrows "Goethe's Werke v. 14/15, v. 17/18" from Library 
of Congress [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's Werke.]
<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='1862-02-14'>Friday, February 14, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cabinet meets. Report on Gen. Burnside's expedition
  read. <bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  "The children [Willie and Tad] we are glad to say are on the mend." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14 February 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President issues
  Executive Order No. 1, relating to political prisoners. As far as public
  welfare will permit, all political prisoners now held in military custody will
  be released on their subscribing to parole not to aid or comfort enemy.
  Extraordinary arrests will hereafter be made under direction of military
  authorities alone. <bibl default='NO'>Otto Eisenschiml, <title>In the Shadow of Lincoln's
  Death</title> (New York: Funk, 1940), 193; DNA&#8212;WR RG 94, Adjt. Gen. Off.,
  Letters Received, Misc. Branch, Box 673.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President anxiously
  awaits news from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on fighting before Fort Donelson, Tenn. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 14 February 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Confers with Sen. Sherman (Ohio) at
  Capitol regarding assignment of Robert C. Kirk of Ohio as consul to Tangier. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Kirk to Sherman, 20 February 1862, John Sherman Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-15'>Saturday, February 15, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief of Army and Navy officially thanks 
officers and men taking part in capture of Fort Henry, Tenn., and 
Roanoke Island, N.C.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 15 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recommends to Congress that Capt. Louis M. Goldsborough (USN) receive 
vote of thanks for gallantry displayed in capture of Roanoke Island.
<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%3A286' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 15 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:134.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends to Isabel II, Queen of Spain, letter of congratulation on birth 
of prince and letter of condolence on death of daughter.
<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%3A284' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isabel II</xref>, 15 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:133; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A285' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isabel II</xref>, 15 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:133-34.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Committee on Conduct of War requests 8 P.M. interview with Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>Wade to Lincoln, 14 February 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"Reception at White House due today is omitted in consequence of the 
continued illness in the family of the President."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 17 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Harness shop charges Lincoln $6.00 for repairs, chamois, and sponges.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Lutz Account Book</title>.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-16'>Sunday, February 16, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President announces that public safety renders it necessary to 
withhold reasons for arresting members of Maryland Legislature.
<bibl default='NO'>Henry J. Raymond, <title>The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln . . . Together with his State Papers, including his Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations and the Closing Scenes Connected with his Life and Death</title> (New York: Derby &amp; Miller, 1865), 378.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gen. Halleck that Gen. Grant can hold Fort Donelson, 
Tenn., unless overwhelmed from outside. To prevent this disaster 
enemy forces from Bowling Green, Ky., could be cut off by having 
gunboat destroy railroad bridge at Clarksville, Tenn. In the event 
Nashville is defended by forces from all South, "Could not a cavalry 
force from Gen. Thomas on the upper Cumberland, dash across, almost 
unresisted, and cut the Railroad at or near Knoxville, Tenn.?"
<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%3A287' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 16 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:135.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-17'>Monday, February 17, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At night 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 takes nomination of Gen. Grant as major general 
of volunteers to White House and President signs it.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Notebook</title>, February 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
: "Some time ago I directed Henry M. Judah, of 
the regular Army, to be appointed a Brig. Genl. of volunteers. I 
understand my note on the subject, is lost or mislaid; and I now 
renew the 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%3A288' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 17 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:135.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-19'>Wednesday, February 19, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President recommends by proclamation that people celebrate 
Washington's Birthday publicly by listening to reading of his 
"Farewell Address."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 19 February 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%3A290' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation for Celebration of Washington's Birthday</xref>, 19 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:136-37.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Willie continues critically ill though somewhat easier than yesterday.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 19 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President approves act prohibiting "coolie trade" by American 
citizens in American vessels.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 340.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-02-20'>Thursday, February 20, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Willie Lincoln dies at 5 P.M. President sends
  carriage for Sen. and Mrs. Browning (Ill.). They spend night at White House. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President stops in secretary's office and says: "Well, Nicolay, my boy is
  gone&#8212;he is actually gone," and bursting into tears turns and goes into
  his own office. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Notebook</title>, February 1862, John G. Nicolay
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> is inconsolable. <bibl default='NO'>Elizabeth
  Keckley, <title>Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the
  White House</title> (1868: reprint, Buffalo, NY: Stansil and Lee, 1931),
  101.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-21'>Friday, February 21, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets at 11 A.M. in State Dept.; President does not attend.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 21 February 1862; Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Seward confers with President about England's disapproval of 
U.S. proposals in Mason-Slidell case.
<bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 220.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln confers with Gen. Butler about New Orleans expedition.
<bibl default='NO'>Benjamin F. Butler, <title>Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences . . . Butler's Book</title> (Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892), 334-35.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President's recommendations for industrial exhibition in London fail 
to obtain congressional approval.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 22 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Congress meets and adjourns after reading "Journal" because of death 
in President's family. Cabinet requests Congress to cancel 
illumination of public buildings on Washington's birthday out of 
respect for President's family.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 21 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet members and wives call on President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 22 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-22'>Saturday, February 22, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President does not attend Washington's Birthday celebration at Capitol.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 24 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Tad Lincoln is sick.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
By Joint Resolution of Congress, public buildings are not illuminated 
this night from condolence for death of President's son.
<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;RG 42, Commissioner of Public Buildings, Letters Received.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Charles Edwards Lester calls in evening with Dr. Charles D. Brown, 
who embalmed Willie's body by new process. Lincoln looks in Green 
Room where body lies in state.
<bibl default='NO'>Charles E. Lester, <title>The Light and Dark of the Rebellion</title> (Philadelphia, PA: n.p., 1863), 142-44; Charles E. Lester, <title>Our First Hundred Years</title>, 2 vols. (New York: n.p., 1875), 379n.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-23'>Sunday, February 23, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 in conference at War Dept. are interrupted 
by Gen. Butler with instructions from Gen. McClellan to go ahead with 
expedition to New Orleans. Apparently President is not in favor of it.
<bibl default='NO'>Benjamin F. Butler, <title>Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences . . . Butler's Book</title> (Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892), 335.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Body of Willie Lincoln is viewed at White House by many friends of family.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 24 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-24'>Monday, February 24, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Dr. Phineas D. Gurley conducts simple funeral service for Willie 
Lincoln at 2 P.M. in East Room while body remains in adjoining Green 
Parlor. Large crowd includes cabinet officers, foreign ministers, 
members of Congress, and citizens in general.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 25 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Robert Lincoln, and Sens. Browning (Ill.) and Trumbull (Ill.) 
accompany President to Oak Hill Cemetery, Road and Washington Sts., 
Georgetown, where body of Willie is placed in W. T. Carroll's vault.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Government departments closed.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 24 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Tad Lincoln decidedly better.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 24 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-02-25'>Tuesday, February 25, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cabinet meets and discusses paroling prisoners of
  war. <bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President approves Treasury Note (Legal Tender) Bill that results in issuance
  of "Greenbacks." <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 26 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Gen. Butler calls on Lincoln before leaving Washington for Ship
  Island, Miss., and New Orleans. President tells him to get into New Orleans and
  thus break back of rebellion. <bibl default='NO'>Rice, 142.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Consults with
  Committee on Conduct of War in evening and hears its recommendations that Army
  of Potomac be divided into corps. <bibl default='NO'>Committee on Conduct of War,
  <title corresp='books_Congress2'>Report</title> (1863), 1:86-87.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits to Congress Russian documentation relative to "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%3A291' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 25 February 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:137.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-26'>Wednesday, February 26, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President, by military order pursuant to act of Congress, takes over 
all telegraph lines.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 26 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Gen. McClellan, about to start for Harper's Ferry, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>McClellan to War Dept., undated, 8981, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Submits to Congress correspondence with "the Major King of Siam," and 
asks proper place for deposit of gifts received.
<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%3A292' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 26 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:137.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Tad Lincoln no longer on critical list. <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> improving but 
still confined to her room.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 26 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-27'>Thursday, February 27, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President appoints commission to examine cases of state prisoners 
remaining in military custody.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 27 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Converses with Cong. William D. Kelley (Pa.) at White House about 
Gen. McClellan and Harper's Ferry, Va., secretary of war arrives at 7 
P.M. with dispatches from McClellan. Long conference interrupted by 
entrance of Gen. Randolph B. Marcy, McClellan's father-in-law and 
chief of staff. President, obviously dissatisfied with McClellan, 
says: "The general impression is daily gaining ground that the 
General does not intend to do anything."
<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), 24-29; <title>Notebook</title>, 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Nicolay, <title corresp='books_Nicolay1'>Lincoln's Secretary</title>, 142.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Because of ill health Gen. Scott declines appointment to Mexico as 
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Executive Journal</title>, XII, 136; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A294' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 27 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:138.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> is ill today.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 28 February 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-02-28'>Friday, February 28, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Discusses license to trade in seceded territory.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President visits Navy Yard and Arsenal.
<bibl default='NO'>Elizabeth Edwards to Julia Baker, 1 March 1862, Ninian Edwards Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Gen. McClellan on failure of program at Harper's Ferry, 
Va. Sen. Wade (Ohio) and Mil. Gov. Andrew Johnson (Tenn.) present.
<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), 29.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Drinks tea with Elizabeth Todd Edwards, sister of <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, at 
White House during evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Elizabeth Edwards to Julia Baker, 1 March 1862, Ninian Edwards Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Issues order: "I hereby license and permit such commercial 
intercourse in all cases within the Rules and Regulations which have 
been, or may be, prescribed by the secretary of the treasury for the 
conducting and carrying on of the same, on the inland waters and ways 
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%3A297' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Relating to Commercial Intercourse</xref>, 28 February 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:139.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>