<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-01'>Tuesday, April 1, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President, N. W. Edwards, and Comdr. Dahlgren journey to Alexandria, 
Va., in forenoon to see Gen. McClellan, who plans to leave for Old 
Point Comfort, Va., and peninsula today.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-02'>Wednesday, April 2, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President, members of family, and Comdr. Dahlgren visit Mount Vernon 
by steamer. Lincoln remains in boat.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 3 April 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asst. Sec. Fox introduces to President, John Ericsson and A. C. 
Stimers, engineers who designed and helped build U.S.S. "Monitor."
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Atty. Gen. Bates calls to see Lincoln on personal matters.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Sen. Browning (Ill.) talks to President and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 
about Gen. McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to Michael Crock of Philadelphia: "Allow me to thank 
you in behalf of my little son for your present of White Rabbits. He 
is very much pleased with them."
<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%3A389' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Michael Crock</xref>, 2 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:177.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-03'>Thursday, April 3, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President directs secretary of war to keep in front of Washington 
corps of either Gen. McDowell or Gen. Sumner, and to send corps not 
kept to Gen. McClellan who will commence forward movement from new 
base 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%3A395' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 3 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:179.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Meigs: "I do not personally know Capt. [Asher R.] Eddy 
[of Rhode Island], so as to be able to ask a personal favor for him: 
yet I protest now, as heretofore, that my asking to have him relieved 
from duty . . . shall, to no extent, be set down to his disadvantage."
<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%3A393' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Montgomery C. Meigs</xref>, 3 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:178.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-04-04'>Friday, April
  4, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  receives Sen. Wade (Ohio) and makes appointment to meet with Committee on
  Conduct of War in evening. <bibl default='NO'>Committee on Conduct of War,
  <title corresp='books_Congress2'>Report</title> (1863), 1:93.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Sen. Browning (Ill.) has interview at night with President. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> instructs John Hay to pay to her
  the White House steward's salary. <bibl default='NO'>Dennett, <title corresp='books_Dennett'>Hay Diaries and Letters</title>, 40.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Lincoln pays $21.25 on harness bill. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Lutz Account
  Book</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes check to John Hay for $1,002.19. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:489.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-05'>Saturday, April 5, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President signifies willingness to sign bill abolishing slavery in 
District of Columbia.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 7 April 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Sen. Browning (Ill.) at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President receives March salary warrant for $2,083.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In compliance with resolution of House of Representatives sends copy 
of dispatch from James S. Pike, U.S. minister at The Hague, 
summarizing methods of taxation in Netherlands.
<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%3A402' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 5 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:181.</bibl>
         </p>
         <quote>
            <p>
[On April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862 Union forces under Grant and 
Confederate forces under Albert Sidney Johnston clash at Pittsburg 
Landing (Shiloh), Tennessee.]
</p>
         </quote>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-06'>Sunday, April 6, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In evening Comdr. Dahlgren at White House reviews with Lincoln 
progress of Army of Potomac. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 drops in, makes few 
slighting remarks, tells President there is no change below. Lincoln 
refers to his telegram sent Gen. McClellan at 8 P.M.: "I think you 
better break the enemies' line from York-town to Warwick River, at 
once."
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A404' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 6 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:182.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-07'>Monday, April 7, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President signs treaty with Great Britain for suppression of African 
slave trade. [See June 10, 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%3A602' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 10 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:265.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Borrows "Plutarch's Lives" from Library of Congress. [Plutarch's 
Lives, rev. by A. H. Clough, Boston, 1859.]
<bibl default='NO'>Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s half-brother, Samuel B. Todd, is mortally wounded 
during second day's fighting at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. (Battle of 
Shiloh).
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 30 April 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln endorses recommendation of Uri Manly of Marshall, Ill.: "I 
personally know Mr. Manly to be a good man. . . . His application has 
been before the Department half a year, and he should be appointed a 
Quarter-Master, so soon as it can consistently be done."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A408' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 7 [8?] April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:183.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-08'>Tuesday, April 8, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meeting occupied with military matters.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-04-09'>Wednesday, April 9, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> 
            <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> at
  White House early with report from Gen. McClellan on military operations. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Stanton to McClellan, 8 April 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library
  of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Postmaster Gen. Blair discusses
  McClellan's conduct with President and writes: "I can see that the President
  thinks you are not sufficiently confident, and it disturbs him." <bibl default='NO'>Blair to
  McClellan, 9 April 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln believes delayed action of Army of
  Potomac is advantageous to enemy. Writes McClellan: "But you must act." <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%3A410' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 9 April 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:184-85.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sen.
  Browning (Ill.) visits White House in evening and goes with President to War
  Dept. for latest news. <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln sends
  directions to Gen. Halleck: "If the rigor of the confinement of [Col.] Magoffin
  at Alton is endangering his life, or materially impairing his health, I wish it
  mitigated so far as it can be, consistently with his safe detention." <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%3A409' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 9 April 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:183-84.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-10'>Thursday, April 10, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confined to bed. Sen. Browning (Ill.) sits with him for 
hour in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate treaty with Great Britain regarding suppression 
of slave trade.
<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%3A413' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 10 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:186.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves Joint Resolution (HR-48) for gradual emancipation of slavery.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe, 1650.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln endorses large bundle of papers: "What possible injury can 
this lad work upon the cause of this great Union? I say let him go."
<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%3A411' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum</xref>, 10 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:185.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President issues proclamation of thanksgiving for victories by land 
and naval forces.
<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%3A412' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation of Thanksgiving for Victories</xref>, 10 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:185-86.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gov. Yates (Ill.) and William Butler, treasurer of Illinois: 
"I fully appreciate Gen. [John] Pope's splendid achievements with 
their invaluable results; but you must know that Major Generalships 
in the Regular Army, are not as plenty as blackberries."
<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%3A414' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard Yates and William Butler</xref>, 10 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:186-87.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-11'>Friday, April 11, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President summons Asst. Sec. Fox, Postmaster Gen. Blair, and Lt. Wise 
to White House for evening meeting.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits in Springfield Marine Bank $100, interest on Van Deren 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='1862-04-12'>Saturday, April 12, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Francis Stevens who wants to build ships for government.
<bibl default='NO'>Stevens to McClellan, 15 April 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes check to "Self for Robert" for $25.00.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:489.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-13'>Sunday, April 13, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Delegates from Freedmen's Associations urge President to provide for 
Negroes on abandoned plantations at Port Royal, S.C.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 14 April 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President spends part of evening at War Dept.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-14'>Monday, April 14, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet in special meeting to consider establishing military 
government over islands along coast of South Carolina. Lincoln 
interviews two paroled Southern prisoners.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln examines case of Col. Magoffin.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 15 April 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits information on Mexican affairs to House of Representatives.
<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%3A420' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 14 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:188.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Browning (Ill.) at White House in evening discusses with 
President bill to end slavery in District of Columbia, and successor 
for Judge Stephen T. Logan, former law partner of Lincoln in 
Springfield, on commission to examine into claims at Cairo, Ill.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>; Browning to Grimshaw, 15 April 1862, Orville H. Browning Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>].
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-04-15'>Tuesday, April 15, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President sends to Senate treaty with "Sac and Fox,
  of the Missouri, and the Iowa tribes, of Indians." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A423' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 15 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:189.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Uses March salary
  warrant for $2,083.33 to purchase 1861 treasury notes. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Recommends to Senate passage of resolution extending time for ratification of
  extradition treaty with Mexico. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A424' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 15 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:189-90.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits to
  Senate treaty with Nicaragua as approved June 26, 1860, with amendments
  proposed by Congress of Nicaragua. <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%3A425' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 15 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:190-91.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-16'>Wednesday, April 16, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President signs "An act for the release of certain persons held to 
service, or labor in the District of Columbia," and for appointment 
of board of commissioners to appraise slaves of loyal citizens and 
allow payment not exceeding an average of $300.
<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%3A428' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Message to Congress</xref>, 16 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:192; Stat. L., XII, 376.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves act authorizing establishment of branch post offices in cities.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 379.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Appoints J. G. Berret, former mayor of Washington, former Cong. 
Samuel F. Vinton (Ohio), and Daniel R. Goodloe, formerly of North 
Carolina, commissioners to act for abolition of slavery in District 
of Columbia.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 17 April 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asst. Sec. Fox at White House in evening.
<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='1862-04-17'>Thursday, April 17, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President recognizes C. F. Adac as consul for Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg 
at Cincinnati.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 26 April 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-18'>Friday, April 18, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President in conference room at Capitol consults with Sen. Browning 
(Ill.) about J. G. Berret's nomination.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>

            <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 at White House discusses with President morning dispatch 
from Gen. McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>Stanton to McClellan, 18 April 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President transmits to Congress documentation relative to arrest of 
Simon Cameron, minister to St. Petersburg and former secretary 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%3A432' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 18 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:193-94.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Calls Asst. Sec. Fox to White House. <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> sends Mrs. Fox bouquet.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $17.33 from Springfield Marine Bank to pay taxes.
<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='1862-04-19'>Saturday, April 19, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place> and <place key='38.5167, -77.6000' teiForm='name'>Aquia Creek, VA</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President announces ratification of treaty with Potawatomi Indians of Kansas.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 21 April 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In afternoon, accompanied by Secs. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 and Chase, Comdr. 
Dahlgren, and D. Dudley Field, New York merchant, boards revenue 
cutter "Miami" at Navy Yard for trip down Potomac to meet Gen. 
McDowell at Aquia Creek. Reaches destination. McDowell does not 
arrive. Lincoln spends night on board.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-20'>Sunday, April 20, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.5167, -77.6000' teiForm='name'>Aquia Creek, VA</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. McDowell meets President early in morning and accompanies him to 
Washington. Party arrives at 2:30 P.M. and dines at Comdr. 
Dahlgren's. Drive from Navy Yard to White House interrupted when 
excited horses immobilize President's carriage. Trip completed in 
another carriage.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 21 April 1862; Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Lincoln discusses Yorktown, Va., and Corinth, Miss., with 
Sen. Browning (Ill.).
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-21'>Monday, April 21, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President informs Gen. McClellan of evacuation of Fredericksburg, 
Va., and position of Gen. McDowell's forces.
<bibl default='NO'>Lincoln to McClellan, 21 April 1862, George B. McClellan 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%3A437' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 21 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:195.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Grants interview to Mrs. Margarethe M. Schurz.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:489.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-04-22'>Tuesday, April 22, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln withdraws nomination of J. G. Berret for
  commissioner to adjudicate claims of slaveowners in District of Columbia and
  submits name of former Postmaster Gen. Horatio King. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 22
  April 1862; <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 25 April 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%3A438' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James G. Berret</xref>, 22 April 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:195-96.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-23'>Wednesday, April 23, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President discusses army maneuvers with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 who orders Gen. 
McDowell not to cross Rappahannock.
<bibl default='NO'>Committee on Conduct of War, <title corresp='books_Congress2'>Report</title> (1863), 1:271.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> sends Mrs. Fox flowers and three potted plants.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gen. James W. Ripley: "I expected that when under the 
clause [in contract for guns] the price of a particular quality of 
gun was fixed it would stand throughout the transaction, neither 
going down or up. I still think this is the just construction."
<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%3A441' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James W. Ripley</xref>, 23 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:196-97.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-24'>Thursday, April 24, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President exchanges formal verbal greetings with Lorenzo Montufar, 
new minister from Republic of Salvador.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 25 April 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%3A444' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Lorenzo Montufar</xref>, 24 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:198.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate testimony before naval court of inquiry in case 
of Lt. Charles E. Fleming (USN).
<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%3A445' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 24 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:198-99.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-25'>Friday, April 25, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sec. Welles rushes to White House to share with President news that 
Flag Officer David G. Farragut (USN) has taken New Orleans. Story in 
Richmond newspapers smuggled into Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>West, <title corresp='books_West'>Welles</title>, 177.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President sends letter of condolence to King of Portugal on death of brother.
<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%3A446' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Luiz I</xref>, 25 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:199.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Sen. Browning (Ill.) spends hour and half at White House 
reading poetry with Lincoln. Visitors waiting when Browning left.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-26'>Saturday, April 26, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President transmits to House of Representatives documentation 
regarding insurgent privateers in foreign ports.
<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%3A447' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 26 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:199.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln and party, including Sec. Seward and Comdr. Dahlgren, leave 
Navy Yard in cutter to visit French frigate "Gassendi" lying in 
river. Lincoln, first U.S. President to board French warship, 
receives 21-gun salute. <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> waits in carriage at Navy Yard.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 28 April 1862; <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 27 April 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-27'>Sunday, April 27, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and several senators examine hammock tent pitched in front 
of Capitol.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 28 April 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
During night session of cabinet 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 and Gen. Wadsworth 
accuse Gen. McClellan of failing to protect Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>Thomas Harry Williams, <title>Lincoln and the Radicals</title> (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), 128.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Lulu Waldron, daughter of Judge George P. Waldron of 
Yankton, Dakota Terr.: "My Dear Young Friend Allow me to express to 
you my very sincere thanks for your kindness in sending me those 
elegant studs of Pipestone. Very truly Your friend."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A450' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lulu Waldron</xref>, 27 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:200.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-28'>Monday, April 28, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In letter to Vice President Hamlin, Lincoln answers Senate resolution 
relating to Gen. Stone.
<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%3A452' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hannibal Hamlin</xref>, 28 April 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:201.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
White House borrows "Butler's Works (Hudibras, etc.) 2 v." from 
Library of Congress. [Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler and His Hudibras 
and Other Works, London, 1846.]
<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='1862-04-29'>Tuesday, April 29, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President "withholds" from House of Representatives
  reasons for evacuation of Jacksonville, Fla. <bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 30 April
  1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-04-30'>Wednesday, April 30, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
John Nicolay returns from visit to his home in Illinois.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 1 May 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <quote>
            <p>
[On May 1, 1862 New Orleans is occupied by Federal forces under 
Admiral David G. Farragut and Gen. Benjamin F. Butler.]
</p>
         </quote>
      </div2>