<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-01'>Saturday, March 1, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln asks 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to appoint Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, surgeon and 
Arctic explorer, surgeon of volunteers.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A300' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 1 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:140.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-03-03'>Monday, March
  3, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  interviews Col. Blair on case of Gen. Sigel. <bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 4 March
  1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits to Congress documents relating to: 1.
  assignment of regular army officers to duty in field and recruiting service; 2.
  convention with Granadian Confederation; 3. culture of cotton in African
  possessions of Portugal; 4. interest of Italy in "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%3A301' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 3 March 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:140;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A302' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 3 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:140-41;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A303' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 3 March 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:141;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A304' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 3 March 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:141.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In evening
  group of congressmen holds long conference with President on state of Union. 
  <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 4 March 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln orders
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> to prepare formal nominations for
  appointment of nine major generals and nine brigadier generals. <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%3A305' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 3 March 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:142.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-04'>Tuesday, March 4, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and Gen. Hunter appear before Committee on Conduct of War 
regarding Kansas affairs.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 5 March 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives Federico L. Barreda, new minister from Peru.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 4 March 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asst. Sec. Fox notifies President that U.S.S. "Monitor" is on way to 
Hampton Roads.
<bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 172.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Sen. Browning (Ill.) accompanies wife and daughter of Col. 
John Symington of Pittsburgh to see President.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes endorsement: "Edward Burke, the bearer of this, was at 
service in this Mansion for several months now last past; and during 
all the time he appeared to me to be a competent, faithful, and very 
genteel 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%3A309' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Whom It May Concern</xref>, 4 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:143-44.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Senate confirms appointment of Sen. Andrew Johnson (Tenn.) as 
military governor of Tennessee.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Executive Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-05'>Wednesday, March 5, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President summons cabinet to meet at 7 P.M. Probably discusses 
compensated emancipation.
<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%3A311' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 5 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:144.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives and deposits in Riggs Bank February salary warrant for $2,083.34.
<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='1862-03-06'>Thursday, March 6, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President invites Sen. Sumner (Mass.) to White House shortly after 
breakfast to discuss compensated emancipation.
<bibl default='NO'>Pierce, <title corresp='books_Pierce'>Sumner Memoir and Letters</title>, 4:64.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recommends to Congress gradual, compensated emancipation.
<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%3A312' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Message to Congress</xref>, 6 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:144-46.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Attends funeral service for Gen. Frederick W. Lander at residence of 
Sec. Chase.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6 March 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves act requiring that oath of allegiance be administered to 
masters of American vessels clearing for foreign or other ports 
during present rebellion.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 354.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-07'>Friday, March 7, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Confers with James F. B. Marshall of Massachusetts and Hawaii "on the 
question of the Honolulu Commissioner."
<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%3A315' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 7 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:147.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults with Gen. McClellan about his peninsular plan of campaign to 
capture Richmond.
<bibl default='NO'>Thomas Harry Williams, <title>Lincoln and the Radicals</title> (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), 118.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Visits Fox's residence and in his absence talks half hour with Mrs. 
Gustavus V. Fox.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate treaty and papers signed at Paola, Kans., with 
united tribes of Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankashaw, and Wea Indians.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A314' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 7 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:147.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $49.53 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-03-08'>Saturday, March 8, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President summons Gen. McClellan to White House at
  7:30 A.M. Reports rumor that McClellan intends to turn capital and government
  over to enemy. McClellan protests. Lincoln disclaims intent to accuse him. 
  <bibl default='NO'>McClellan, <title corresp='books_McClellan'>War for Union</title>,
  195.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Asks Asst. Sec. Fox to go to Fortress Monroe, Va., and
  report on situation. <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Meets with division commanders at
  White House after they voted eight to four in favor of McClellan's plan for
  peninsular campaign. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; <title>The Annals of the War,
  Written by Leading Participants North and South</title>, Originally Published
  in the Philadelphia Weekly Times (Philadelphia, PA: Times Publishing, 1879),
  72-81.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Issues General War Order No. 2: "That the Major General
  commanding the Army of the Potomac proceed forthwith to organize that part of
  said Army destined to enter upon active operations (including the reserve, but
  excluding the troops to be left in the fortifications about Washington) into
  four Army corps." <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%3A321' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>President's
  General War Order No. 2</xref>, 8 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:149-50.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Issues General
  War Order No. 3: "That no change of the base of operations of the Army of the
  Potomac shall be made without leaving in, and about Washington, such a force
  as, in the opinion of the General-in-Chief, and the commanders of all the Army
  corps, shall leave said City entirely secure." <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%3A322' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>President's
  General War Order No. 3</xref>, 8 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:151.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Appoints 11 persons
  "Cadets to the Military Academy at West Point for the year 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%3A324' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph G. Totten</xref>, 8 March 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:152.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <quote> 
            <p> [On
  morning of March 9, 1862, the first battle between iron clad warships, the
  "Monitor" and the "Merrimac," occurs at Hampton Roads (Va.)] </p> 
         </quote>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-09'>Sunday, March 9, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President discusses with Col. Blair value of conference of Border 
State congressmen on compensated emancipation.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay, <title corresp='books_Nicolay1'>Lincoln's Secretary</title>, 134-35.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 10 A.M. sends carriage for Sen. Browning's (Ill.) family.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives report from Gen. Wool at Fortress Monroe, Va., that 
Confederate ship "Merrimac" entered Hampton Roads preceding day and 
destroyed U.S.S. "Cumberland" and U.S.S. "Congress," and that other 
ships and Fortress Monroe itself are in danger. Calls emergency 
cabinet meeting to discuss defense measures in event "Merrimac" 
starts toward Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Notebook</title>, February 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; <title>The Annals of the War, Written by Leading Participants North and South</title>, Originally Published in the Philadelphia Weekly Times (Philadelphia, PA: Times Publishing, 1879), 23-26.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Drives with Browning to Navy Yard about 2 P.M.; Comdr. Dahlgren 
returns with them to White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>; Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Most of cabinet at White House in afternoon, but not by appointment. 

<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 divulges information that preparations are under way to 
stop "Merrimac" from reaching Washington by blocking river channel.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>The Annals of the War, Written by Leading Participants North and South</title>, Originally Published in the Philadelphia Weekly Times (Philadelphia, PA: Times Publishing, 1879), 26.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President awaits news of battle between U.S.S. "Monitor" and 
"Merrimac" at telegraph office in evening with members of cabinet.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 117.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
After 4 P.M. dispatch reaches War Office describing fight between 
"Monitor" and "Merrimac" from 8 A.M. to 12 M., when "Merrimac" 
withdrew. Lincoln and two cabinet members present. Lincoln walks to 
White House.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Notebook</title>, February 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Lucius E. Chittenden, <title>Recollections of President Lincoln and his Administration</title> (New York: Harper, 1891), 224.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asks Henry J. Raymond to reconsider compensated emancipation and 
print another article in New York "Times." "One half-day's cost of 
this war would pay for all the slaves in Delaware, at four hundred 
dollars per head."
<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%3A325' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry J. Raymond</xref>, 9 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:152-53.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-03-10'>Monday, March
  10, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At morning
  cabinet meeting President discusses outcome of battle between U.S.S. "Monitor"
  and Confederate ship "Merrimac." <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Carl Schurz, minister to
  Spain, reports to President on New York meeting of Emancipation Society.
  Lincoln describes recent naval engagement to Schurz. <bibl default='NO'>Carl Schurz,
  <title>The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz</title>, 3 vols. (New York: McClure,
  1907-8), 2:327-30.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Consults with Border State congressmen on
  plan of compensated emancipation. <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay,
  <title corresp='books_Nicolay1'>Lincoln's Secretary</title>, 135.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes secretary of navy: "The 'Monitor' could be boarded and captured very
  easily . . . she should not go skylarking up to Norfolk." <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%3A329' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 10 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:154.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President and
  everyone at White House excited over naval fight at Fortress Monroe, Va.,
  yesterday. <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 10 March 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In evening calls on Lt.
  Worden, commander of "Monitor" nearly blinded by shell in yesterday's
  engagement, to express admiration, and "bursts into tears while greeting the
  sailor." <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 11 March 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes Gen. Buell:
  "The evidence is very strong that the enemy in front of us here is breaking up
  and moving off. General McClellan is after him. Some part of the force may be
  destined to meet you. Look out and be prepared. I telegraphed Halleck, asking
  him to assist you, if needed." <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%3A326' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Don C. Buell</xref>, 10 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:153.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Check to Tad
  Lincoln: "<uLine>Pay to</uLine> 'Tad' (when he is well enough to present)
  <uLine>or bearer</uLine> Five _____ <uLine>Dollars</uLine> $5/00." <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%3A328' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Check
  to "Tad" Lincoln</xref>, 10 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:154.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-11'>Tuesday, March 11, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At cabinet meeting chronic dissatisfaction with conduct of war levelled 
at Gen. McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Former Gov. Dennison (Ohio) talks to President about War Order No. 3 
and McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>McClellan, <title corresp='books_McClellan'>War for Union</title>, 225.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"The President came into the [Navy] Yard, and I drove around with him."
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President issues War Order No. 3, placing McClellan in command of 
Dept. of the Potomac, Gen. Halleck in command of Dept. of the 
Mississippi, and Gen. Fremont in command of Mountain 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%3A330' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>President's War Order No. 3</xref>, 11 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:155.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening calls several members of cabinet to White House and reads 
War Order No. 3 to them.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes check for $5.00 to "William Johnson (colored)."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:487.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-12'>Wednesday, March 12, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen. Nesmith (Oreg.) expresses mistrust of Gen. McClellan to President.
<bibl default='NO'>Ingalls to Colburn, 12 March 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Former Gov. Dennison (Ohio) interviews President again on behalf of McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>McClellan to Lincoln, 12 March 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln transmits to Senate report of secretary of state on railroad 
systems in Europe.
<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%3A334' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 12 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:156-57.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1862-03-13'>Thursday, March 13, 1862.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p>President Lincoln receives a "party of Massachusetts gentlemen,"
  who come to the White House to present Lincoln with an "elegant whip." Lincoln
  remarks, "[I]t is evidently expected that a good deal of whipping is to be
  done. But, as we meet here socially, let us not only think of whipping rebels,
  or of those who seem to think only of whipping negroes, but of those pleasant
  days which it is to be hoped are in store for us, when, seated behind a good
  pair of horses, we can crack our whips and drive through a peaceful, happy and
  prosperous land." <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%3A339' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech to a Massachusetts
  Delegation</xref>, 13 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  5:158; <title>New York Times</title>, 22 March 1862, 4:6.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Interviews Pascal Plant, inventor who shows small wooden model of submarine
  gunboat. <bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of
  War</title>, 177.</bibl> </p> <p> Approves additional article of war,
  prohibiting all officers or persons in military service from employing any
  forces under their respective commands for purposes of returning fugitives from
  service or labor. <bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 354.</bibl> </p> <p> Thanks
  Henry A. Brown, Boston representative of London company, for engraving of Gen.
  McClellan. <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%3A336' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry A. Brown</xref>,
  13 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:157.</bibl> </p> 
  <p> Composes letter for <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec.
  Stanton</person> to send to McClellan: "1st. Leave such force at Manassas
  Junction as shall make it entirely certain that the enemy shall not repossess
  himself of that position and line of communication. 2d. Leave Washington
  secure. 3d. Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac, choosing a new
  base at Fortress Monroe, or anywhere between here and there; or, at all events,
  move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route."
  <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%3A337' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B.
  McClellan</xref>, 13 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  5:157-58.</bibl> </p> <p> <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person> on sick list. <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='1862-03-14'>Friday, March 14, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Former Gov. Dennison (Ohio) confers with President again this 
morning, probably on behalf of Gen. McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>Second Series, 14 March 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln demonstrates statistically to Sen. James A. McDougall 
(Calif.) that gradual compensated emancipation can be accomplished in 
Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Kentucky, and Missouri for 
a sum equivalent to cost of 87 days of war.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A343' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James A. McDougall</xref>, 14 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:160-61.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends for Asst. Sec. Fox and wants him to go to New York tonight.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Congress correspondence concerning case of Danish barque 
"Jorgen Lorentzen," with recommendation that award of referees be 
paid.
<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%3A346' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, [14] March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:162.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-15'>Saturday, March 15, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews his friend, George C. Bestor, boat builder, and 
sends him with note to Gen. Meigs.
<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%3A347' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Montgomery C. Meigs</xref>, 15 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:162.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Atty. Gen. Bates has private talk with Lincoln to warn him against 
extremists in Congress.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Harris (N.Y.) and G. Opdyke see President and urge appointment 
of Mr. Gray (probably J. G. C. Gray) as minister to Rome in case 
former Gov. Randall (Wis.) declines.
<bibl default='NO'>Opdyke to Chase, 16 March 1862, Salmon P. Chase Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>

            <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 escorts Gen. Ethan Allen Hitchcock to consult with 
Lincoln regarding Gen. McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>Ethan A. Hitchcock, <title>Fifty Years in Camp and Field: Diary of Major-General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, U.S.A.</title>, edited by W. A. Croffut (New York: Putnam, 1909), 439.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Col. Le Grand B. Cannon, stationed at Fortress Monroe, Va., 
interviews President in presence of Sens. Harris (N.Y.) and King 
(N.Y.) in attempt to remove difficulties presented by order to 
McClellan to advance toward Richmond.
<bibl default='NO'>LeGrand B. Cannon, <title>Personal Reminiscences of the Rebellion, 1861-1866</title> (New York: Burr Print. House, 1895), 14.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln assigns Gen. James S. Wadsworth to post of military governor 
of Washington, DC.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 15 March 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Sen. Foot (Vt.) regarding appropriation for new Capitol dome.
<bibl default='NO'>Foot to Lincoln, 17 March 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves act authorizing joint commission representing U.S., Great 
Britain, and France for preservation of Atlantic fisheries.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 369.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Buys $14,200 worth of Treasury notes of 1861 with accumulation of 
seven salary warrants, July 1861 to January 1862.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 127.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-16'>Sunday, March 16, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Postmaster Gen. Blair calls on President for news about agitation to 
remove Gen. McClellan from command, but learns nothing.
<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='1862-03-17'>Monday, March
  17, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  confers with Gen. Fremont, assigned to command new department. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y.
  Tribune, 18 March 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Rumor reaches Lincoln of resolution
  that may be offered by Cong. John Covode (Pa.) to remove Gen. McClellan from
  command. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 17 March 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "War politicians
  of the 'Tribune' school have seen the President . . . with a view to displacing
  McClellan." <bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 19 March 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President
  welcomes committee bearing resolutions passed by East Baltimore Conference of
  Methodist Episcopal Church. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 8 April 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In presence of <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> , interviews
  Cornelius Vanderbilt, railroad builder and philanthropist, and accepts yacht
  offered as gift to government. <bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;RG 59, General Records, Dept. of
  State, Vanderbilt to Seward, 3 May 1866.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-18'>Tuesday, March 18, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Increased activity of President and military officers denotes 
immediate action by Army of Potomac.
<bibl default='NO'>Philadelphia Press, 19 March 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"Wendell Phillips [prominent Massachusetts antislavery leader], by 
special invitation, has an interview with the President."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 19 March 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton:</person>
 "In going to Fortress-Monroe, Gen. 
McClellan gets into Gen. Wool's Department. He must not be interfered 
with by Gen. Wool. Yet I do not wish Gen. Wool's feelings hurt, and I 
am ready to make him a Major Genl. if it will do any good."
<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%3A353' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 18 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:164.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1862-03-19'>Wednesday, March 19, 1862.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President calls special meeting of cabinet in morning, "purpose
  unknown." <bibl default='NO'> <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 20 March
  1862.</bibl> </p> <p> Recognizes Jos&#x00E9; Maria Duran as consul general of
  Mexican Republic at New York. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 19 March
  1862.</bibl> </p> <p> At 6 P.M. discusses with Sen. Browning (Ill.) gift of
  yacht from Cornelius Vanderbilt to navy. Browning introduces Peter Peckham and
  Mr. Taylor, inventors of new type of fuse. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> In evening
  artist George P. A. Healy confers with President on placing in Executive
  Mansion series of paintings of Presidents ordered by Congress. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Healy to Nicolay, 20 March 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> <p>President Lincoln responds
  to Dr. Samuel B. Tobey, who is a prominent member of the Society of Friends in
  New England. Tobey wrote to Lincoln on behalf of the Society's members, known
  as Quakers, and suggested that the country's civil war could be resolved
  through peaceful "direct negotiation." Lincoln writes, "Engaged, as I am, in a
  great war, I fear it will be difficult for the world to understand how fully I
  appreciate the principles of peace . . . Grateful to the good people you
  represent for their prayers in behalf of our common country, I look forward
  hopefully to an early end of war, and return of peace." <bibl default='NO'>Society of Friends in New England to Abraham Lincoln, 5 February
  1862; William Sprague to Abraham Lincoln, 8 February 1862, both in 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=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A355' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel B. Tobey</xref>,
  19 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:165-66.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-20'>Thursday, March 20, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends for Asst. Sec. Fox.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Calls meeting at White House to plan movement of Gen. McClellan's troops.
<bibl default='NO'>McDowell to McClellan, 20 March 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and Comdr. Dahlgren go to Alexandria, Va., for meeting with 
McClellan, but miss him.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, confined to her room since death of Willie, is almost 
back to normal health.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 20 March 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gov. Francis H. Peirpoint (Va.), elected at Wheeling 
Convention, June 11, 1861: "Make haste slowly. Things are improving 
by time. Draw up your proclamation carefully, and, if you please, let 
me see it before issuing."
<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%3A356' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Francis H. Peirpoint</xref>, 20 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:166.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recommends to Congress "that Captain Samuel F. DuPont receive a vote 
of thanks of Congress for his services and gallantry, displayed in 
the capture, . . . of various points on the coasts of Georgia and 
Florida."
<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%3A357' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 20 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:166-67.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-21'>Friday, March 21, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President talks again with Gen. McDowell on troop movements of Army of Potomac
<bibl default='NO'>McDowell to McClellan, 20 March 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 3 P.M. embarks from Navy Yard with Comdr. Dahlgren for meeting 
with Gen. McClellan at Alexandria, Va. Meeting continues in evening 
at White House with Secs. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 and Welles, Asst. Sec. Fox, 
McDowell, and Dahlgren present.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> is well enough to receive visit by Mrs. Irvin McDowell.
<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%3A361' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Irvin McDowell</xref>, 21 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:168.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-03-22'>Saturday, March 22, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln advises <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec.
  Stanton</person>: "I personally know Gen. [John M.] Palmer, and [Lt.] John
  Condit Smith; and as the former wants the latter for a Quarter-Master, let the
  appointment be made." <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%3A363' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 22 March 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:168-69.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-23'>Sunday, March 23, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Carl Schurz, minister to Spain, accepts 
resignation, and nominates him brigadier general.
<bibl default='NO'>Carl Schurz, <title>The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz</title>, 3 vols. (New York: McClure, 1907-8), 2:330-31.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1862-03-24'>Monday, March 24, 1862.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Cong. Colfax (Ind.) informs President that Horace Greeley will
  support gradual, compensated emancipation. <bibl default='NO'>Willard H. Smith,
  <title>Schuyler Colfax: The Changing Fortunes of a Political Idol</title>
  (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Collections, 1952), 167.</bibl> </p> <p>
  [Irwin deposits $87.50 in Springfield Marine Bank, rent received from L. A.
  Tilton. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>] </p> <p> President Lincoln writes to New York 
  <name>Tribune</name> editor Horace Greeley regarding Lincoln's recent call to
  Congress for a resolution to encourage the "abolishment of slavery." Lincoln
  proposes that the government "compensate for the inconveniences public and
  private, produced by such change of system." He writes, "I am a little uneasy
  about the abolishment of slavery in this District, not but I would be glad to
  see it abolished, but as to the time and manner of doing it. . . . I would like
  the bill to have the three main
  features&#x2014;gradual&#x2014;compensation&#x2014;and vote of the people." 
  <bibl default='NO'> <xref>Message to Congress</xref>, 6 March 1862,
  <title>CW</title>, 5:144-146; Horace Greeley to Abraham Lincoln, 24 March 1862,
  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=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A364' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley</xref>,
  24 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:169.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1862-03-25'>Tuesday, March 25, 1862.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Vice President Hamlin confers with Lincoln about military
  appointment for nephew. <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%3A369' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M.
  Stanton</xref>, 25 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  5:171.</bibl> </p> <p>In the afternoon, President Lincoln and some unnamed
  family members tour the navy yard. A local newspaper reports that as the
  presidential "carriage proceeded . . . many of the worthy workmen expressed
  sentiments of high regard for the unostentatious and affable Chief Magistrate
  who wears so modestly the honors of his exalted station." <bibl default='NO'><title>Daily National Intelligencer</title> (Washington, DC), 26
  March 1862, 3:4.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln suspends death sentence for breach of
  parole passed on Col. Ebenezer Magoffin, brother of former Gov. Magoffin (Ky.).
  <bibl default='NO'>Lee to Lincoln, 26 March 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='1862-03-26'>Wednesday, March 26, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and cabinet members conduct meeting in 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>'s
 
office at War Dept.
<bibl default='NO'>Russell, <title corresp='books_Russell'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln directs that commission be appointed to examine debts of War 
Dept. at Cairo, Ill.
<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;WR RG 107, Off. Sec. War, Letters Received, Box 3, Letter of M. C. Meigs.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Congress communication from governor of Nevada Territory 
requesting private secretary and increase in salaries of Federal 
officials in Territory.
<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%3A371' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 26 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:171.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>:
 "I understand a requisition has been made by 
Governor Yates, according to the memorandum at the bottom of this 
contract, and that the requisition is refused. Will the Secretary of 
War please tell me why is this?"
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A373' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 26 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:172.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[For "box blacking" President's account is charged 50&#162;.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Lutz Account Book</title>.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-27'>Thursday, March 27, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President pardons two British subjects who have served three years of 
seven-year sentence in District jail for resisting master of American 
vessel in Florida.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 28 March 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Acknowledges letter of Henry B. Whipple, bishop of Minnesota, 
regarding treatment of Indians 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%3A377' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry B. Whipple</xref>, 27 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:173.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-03-28'>Friday, March
  28, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  places frigate at disposal of Minister Simon Cameron for trip to Europe. Offer
  declined. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 29 March 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Nominates five
  brigadiers from among Indiana colonels. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 29 March
  1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Takes short trip down Potomac with Comdr. Dahlgren. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, 29 March 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sen. Browning (Ill.)
  visits with Lincoln short while in evening. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln endorses
  letter of Sen. Trumbull (Ill.): "I believe Dr. [John] Evans [of Illinois] has
  already been appointed Governor of Colorado. If not, let it be done at once,
  while, at all events, the within is a good voucher to place on file." <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%3A379' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 28 March 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:173-74.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-03-29'>Saturday, March 29, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
John Nicolay leaves Washington for trip to home in Illinois.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 29 March 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President writes 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>:
 "I really wish Jesse W. Fell, of 
Illinois, to be appointed a Paymaster in the Regular Army, at 
farthest, as early as the 1st. of July 1862. I wish nothing to 
interfere with this; and I have so written as much as two months ago, 
I think."
<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%3A383' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 29 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:175.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1862-03-30'>Sunday, March 30, 1862.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> In evening Gen. McClellan visits President preparatory to
  sailing down Potomac to begin campaign. <bibl default='NO'>Hay,
  <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl> </p><p>Lincoln
  writes a letter introducing Superintendent of U.S. Army nurses Dorothea L. Dix
  to the Medical Director of the Military Hospital at Winchester, Virginia.
  Lincoln requests, "Please receive her kindly, and avail yourself of her
  services among the sick and wounded soldiers." <bibl>Letter of Introduction for
  Dorothea L. Dix, 30 March 1862, <title>CW</title>, 10:127-128.</bibl></p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1862-03-31'>Monday, March 31, 1862.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President Lincoln writes to Major General George B. McClellan
  regarding a recent military decision. Lincoln writes, "This morning I felt
  constrained to order [General Louis] Blenker's Division to [Major General John C.]
  Fremont; and I write this to assure you that I did so with great pain,
  understanding that you would wish it otherwise. If you could know the full
  pressure of the case, I am confident you would justify it&#x2014;even beyond a
  mere acknowledgement that the Commander-in-chief, may order what he pleases." 
  <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%3A385' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B.
  McClellan</xref>, 31 March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  5:175-76.</bibl> </p> <p> Transmits to Senate treaty of commerce and navigation
  with Ottoman Empire. <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%3A386' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 31
  March 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:176.</bibl> </p> <p>
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> has "a dozen Todds
  of the Edwards breed in the house" from Springfield. <bibl default='NO'>Dennett, <title corresp='books_Dennett'>Hay Diaries and
  Letters</title>, 39.</bibl> </p> </div2>