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<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-01'>Thursday, May 1, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President sends revised answer to Senate resolution regarding arrest
of 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%3A460' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 1 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:204.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes Gen. Halleck: "I am pressed by the Missouri members of
Congress to give General Schofield independent command in Missouri. .
. . Please answer, telling me whether anything, and what, I can do
for them without injuriously interfering with you."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A458' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 1 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:203.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Admonishes Gen. McClellan: "Your call for Parrott guns from
Washington alarms me—chiefly because it argues indefinite
procrastination. Is anything to 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%3A459' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 1 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:203-4.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Transmits to Senate petition and auditor's report relative to goods
advanced by citizens of Oregon and Washington Territory during Indian
uprising in 1855-56.
<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%3A461' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 1 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:204-5.</bibl>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-02'>Friday, May 2, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
In evening Sen. Browning (Ill.) spends hour in family room with
Lincoln who has headache.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
</div2><div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> <date value='1862-05-03'>Saturday, May 3, 1862.</date> <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline> <p> Committee of local citizens accompanied by Sen. Joseph A. Wright (Ind.) confers with President on appointment of George W. Garrett as warden of penitentiary. <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%3A463' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of George W. Garrett</xref>, 3 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:205.</bibl> </p> <p> In the afternoon, Lincoln and his wife, Mary, go to the Navy Yard to "witness some interesting trials of a breech-loading cannon" that James C. C. Holenshade, of Cincinnati, Ohio, demonstrates. A newspaper reports, "A large number of ladies and gentlemen, including several members of Congress," join the Lincolns to watch the demonstration. The paper notes, "The first discharge of the piece interrupted one of the President's stories, after which the experiments proceeded in a satisfactory manner." <bibl default='NO'><title>New York Herald</title>, 4 May 1862, 5:2; Robert V. Bruce, <title>Lincoln and the Tools of War</title> (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1956), 184-185.</bibl> </p> <p> [Irwin withdraws $1,000, interest-free loan to himself, 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' type='Revised'> <dateline> <date value='1862-05-04'>Sunday, May 4, 1862.</date> <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline> <p> President receives news that Confederates have evacuated Yorktown, Va. <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 4 May 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p><p>President Lincoln writes to Dorothea L. Dix, who supervises the corps of U.S. Army nurses. Lincoln consults Dix regarding Nurse Rebecca R. Pomeroy, who assisted the Lincolns following the recent death of their son, Willie. Lincoln explains, "Mrs. [Elizabeth] Edwards (Mrs. L's sister) was suddenly called home to-day by sickness in her own family. Mrs. Pomeroy is now at the White-House, and Miss Dix' permission for her to remain two weeks, or any shorter time, if so long is not possible, would greatly oblige Mrs. L. and the President." <bibl>Abraham Lincoln to Dorothea L. Dix, 4 May 1862, <title>CW</title>, 10:132; Anna L. Boyden, <title>Echoes From Hospital and White House: A Record of Mrs. Rebecca R. Pomroy's Experience in War-Times</title> (Boston, MA: D. Lothrop and Company, 1884), 77-79.</bibl></p> </div2>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-05'>Monday, May 5, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='37.0167, -76.3333' teiForm='name'>Fortress Monroe, VA</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lt. Worden, eyesight still impaired from wound received in battle,
calls on President.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6 May 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Samuel Strong, inventor, displays his breechloading carbine at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 188.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln interviews Lt. Col. G. Montagu Hicks and orders his
appointment as aide-de-camp to Gen. Wool with rank of colonel.
<bibl default='NO'>Hicks to Lincoln, 22 May 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
About dusk President, Secs.
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
and Chase, and several others
leave Navy Yard on board revenue cutter "Miami" for Fortress Monroe.
Spend night on Potomac 15 miles below Alexandria, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 9 May 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Flower, <title corresp='books_Flower'>Stanton</title>, 154.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Receives April salary warrant for $2,083.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-06'>Tuesday, May
6, 1862.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> and <place key='37.0167, -76.3333' teiForm='name'>Fortress Monroe, VA</place>.
</dateline>
<p> Presidential party spends day on journey down river. Docks at
10 P.M. After brief conference with Gen. Wool, commanding at Fortress Monroe,
Lincoln visits flagship of Flag Officer Goldsborough. <bibl default='NO'>Flower,
<title corresp='books_Flower'>Stanton</title>, 154.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Makes trip
to flagship near midnight in tugboat. Returns to revenue cutter "Miami" for
night. <bibl default='NO'>Chester D. Bradley, "President Lincoln's Campaign against the
Merrimac," <title>Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society</title> 51
(Spring 1958):77; William E. Baringer, "On Enemy Soil: President Lincoln's
Norfolk Campaign," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 7 (March
1952):8-10.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-07'>Wednesday, May 7, 1862.</date>
<place key='37.0167, -76.3333' teiForm='name'>Fortress Monroe, VA</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Presidential party arises early and rows out to board yacht
"Vanderbilt" before breakfast. After 9 A.M. breakfast with Gen. Wool
in Quarters No. 1 Lincoln goes aboard U.S.S. "Monitor" and U.S.S.
"Stevens," then visits Fort Wool, Va. Returns to Fortress Monroe,
Va., for conference with Flag Officer Goldsborough. In afternoon
rides horseback to view ruins of town of Hampton, Va., burned by
Confederates, and to review troops at Camp Hamilton, Va. Sends
message to Goldsborough to send U.S.S. "Galena" and two other
gunboats up James River if they can be spared. Holds conference in
Wool's quarters and spends night.
<bibl default='NO'>Chester D. Bradley, "President Lincoln's Campaign against the Merrimac," <title>Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society</title> 51 (Spring 1958):78-80; William E. Baringer, "On Enemy Soil: President Lincoln's Norfolk Campaign," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 7 (March 1952):11-13; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A469' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Louis M. Goldsborough</xref>, 7 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:207.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
"Library of the Executive Mansion" orders books from William F.
Richstein, bookseller and dealer in foreign and American stationery,
278 Pennsylvania Ave. "1 set Hood's Poems $6.50, 1 Goldsmiths Poems
$5.00, 1 Homes of American Authors $6.00." [Thomas Hood, Poems;
Oliver Goldsmith, Poems; Homes of American Authors: Comprising
Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers .
. ., New York, 1853.] Last item is paid for by President; others out
of annual appropriation of $250 for books for White House per
Benjamin B. French, Commissioner of Public Buildings.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 180.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-08'>Thursday, May 8, 1862.</date>
<place key='37.0167, -76.3333' teiForm='name'>Fortress Monroe, VA</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President consults with Flag Officer Goldsborough at Fortress Monroe,
Va., on attempt to land troops on Sewell's Point under cover of navy
fire. Lincoln, with Secs. Chase and
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
, goes to Fort Wool, Va.,
to watch action. Later from tugboat stationed mile behind gunboats
watches shelling of Sewell's Point and Craney Island all afternoon.
<bibl default='NO'>Chester D. Bradley, "President Lincoln's Campaign against the Merrimac," <title>Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society</title> 51 (Spring 1958):80; William E. Baringer, "On Enemy Soil: President Lincoln's Norfolk Campaign," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 7 (March 1952):13-18.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-09'>Friday, May 9,
1862.</date>
<place key='37.0167, -76.3333' teiForm='name'>Fortress Monroe, VA</place>. </dateline>
<p> President
takes cruise around Hampton Roads in revenue cutter "Miami." Holds conference
at Fortress Monroe, Va., and decides to send force against Norfolk under Gen.
Wool. Reads from Shakespeare to Col. Cannon during day. At dinner converses
with Wool about plan to take Norfolk. Wool remarks: "If you stay here 48 hours,
I will present Norfolk to you." Lincoln and <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec.
Stanton</person> use tugboat in searching for possible landing places whence to
begin march on Norfolk. About 2 P.M. crosses to place selected for landing,
about one mile below Fort Wool, Va. Lincoln goes ashore. Returns to Fortress
Monroe where troops are embarking. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 12 May 1862; Boston
Advertiser, 12 May 1862; Chester D. Bradley, "President Lincoln's Campaign
against the Merrimac," <title>Journal of the Illinois State Historical
Society</title> 51 (Spring 1958):80-83; LeGrand B. Cannon, <title>Personal
Reminiscences of the Rebellion, 1861-1866</title> (New York: Burr Print. House,
1895), 157-59, 172-75; William E. Baringer, "On Enemy Soil: President Lincoln's
Norfolk Campaign," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 7 (March 1952):18,
25.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President assists <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person> in
framing dispatch to Gen. McClellan relating to army corps, and writes directly:
"Do the Commanders of Corps disobey your orders in anything? . . . are you
strong enough, even with my help—to set your foot upon the necks of
Sumner, Heintzelman, and Keyes all 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%3A471' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 9 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:207-8;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A472' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 9 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:208-9.</bibl>
</p>
<p> [Gen.
Hunter, commanding Dept. of South, issues General Orders No. 11 freeing slaves
in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, without informing President. (See May
19, 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%3A499' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
Revoking General Hunter's Order of Military Emancipation of May 9, 1862</xref>,
19 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:222-24.</bibl>] </p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-10'>Saturday, May 10, 1862.</date>
<place key='37.0167, -76.3333' teiForm='name'>Fortress Monroe, VA</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President and Secs. Chase and
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
accompany Gen. Wool to landing
place near Willoughby Point where troops begin march to Norfolk.
Lincoln and
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
return to Fortress Monroe, Va. Chase goes to
Norfolk with Wool.
<bibl default='NO'>Chester D. Bradley, "President Lincoln's Campaign against the Merrimac," <title>Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society</title> 51 (Spring 1958):83.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President remains in Fortress Monroe all day.
<bibl default='NO'>William E. Baringer, "On Enemy Soil: President Lincoln's Norfolk Campaign," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 7 (March 1952):18-24.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Discovers that troops commanded by Col. Joseph B. Carr and Gen.
Mansfield are not taking part in attack on Norfolk. Infuriated he
bounces his tall hat off the floor and dictates orders involving
these troops.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers</title>, 4 vols. (1884-1887; reprint, with a new introduction by Roy F. Nichols, New York: T. Yoseloff, 1956), 2:152.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Retires to bed between 9 and 10 P.M. in Quarters No. 1.
<bibl default='NO'>LeGrand B. Cannon, <title>Personal Reminiscences of the Rebellion, 1861-1866</title> (New York: Burr Print. House, 1895), 159-62.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
At 11 P.M. Wool arrives and announces to President surrender and
possession of Norfolk.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 13 May 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President writes Flag Officer Goldsborough: "You are quite right in
supposing the movement made by you and therein reported was made in
accordance with my wishes verbally expressed to you in advance."
<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%3A473' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Louis M. Goldsborough</xref>, 10 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:209.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-11'>Sunday, May 11, 1862.</date>
<place key='37.0167, -76.3333' teiForm='name'>Fortress Monroe, VA</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Shortly before going aboard U.S.S. "Baltimore" about 5 A.M. for
return trip to Washington, President receives news that Confederates
have blown up "Merrimac." "Baltimore" passes spot of destruction off
Craney Island and proceeds up Elizabeth River to Norfolk where
Lincoln visits for an hour. President spends remainder of day and
night on board ship.
<bibl default='NO'>Chester D. Bradley, "President Lincoln's Campaign against the Merrimac," <title>Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society</title> 51 (Spring 1958):84-85; William E. Baringer, "On Enemy Soil: President Lincoln's Norfolk Campaign," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 7 (March 1952):24-25.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President telegraphs Gen. Halleck: "Norfolk in our possession,
Merrimac blown up, & Monitor & other boats going up James
River to Richmond. Be very sure to sustain no reverse in your
Department."
<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%3A474' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 11 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:210.</bibl>
</p>
</div2><div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> <date value='1862-05-12'>Monday, May 12, 1862.</date> <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline> <p> President arrives on U.S.S. "Baltimore" from Fortress Monroe, Va., and Norfolk. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 12 May 1862.</bibl> </p> <p> Raises blockade proclaimed April 19, 1861, on Southern ports of Beaufort, S.C., Port Royal, S.C., and New Orleans as of June 1, 1862 pursuant to treasury regulations except for contraband 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%3A475' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Raising the Blockade of Certain Ports</xref>, 12 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:210-11.</bibl> </p> <p> In conversation with Gen. Carl Schurz, Lincoln predicts that he will be left without support at next congressional election by Republicans and Democrats, by former because he is not radical enough and by latter because he is too radical. <bibl default='NO'>Schurz to Lincoln, 19 May 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> </div2> <div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> <date value='1862-05-13'>Tuesday, May 13, 1862.</date> <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline> <p> At 11 A.M. Lincoln welcomes committee of General Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Church. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 14 May 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%3A480' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response to Evangelical Lutherans</xref>, 13 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:212-13.</bibl> </p> <p> Addresses 12th Indiana Regiment: "I assure you that the nation is more indebted to you, and such as you, than to me." <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14 May 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%3A481' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech to the Twelfth Indiana Regiment</xref>, 13 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:213.</bibl> </p> <p>President Lincoln writes to Abraham Hart, who is a member of Temple Mikveh Israel, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hart sent Lincoln a copy of the prayer offered up by Mikveh Israel's Rabbi Sabato Morais in response to Lincoln's April 10 proclamation, in which he asked all the country's religious congregations to pray for the "restoration of peace, harmony, and unity." Rabbi Morais prayed, "Bless the President of the United States . . . for his sterling honesty, [and] . . . for his firmness and moderation." Lincoln thanks Hart "for your expressions of kindness and confidence." <bibl default='NO'> <xref>Proclamation of Thanksgiving for Victories</xref>, 10 April 1862, <title>CW</title>, 5:185-186; Abraham Hart to Abraham Lincoln, 23 April 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%3A479' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Abraham Hart</xref>, 13 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:212; Bertram Wallace Korn, <title>American Jewry and the Civil War</title> (Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951), 35-38.</bibl> </p> <p> <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> sends bouquet of White House flowers to Mrs. Fox. <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> </div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-14'>Wednesday, May 14, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Recommends to Senate and House of Representatives "that Captain D. G.
Farragut receive a vote of thanks of Congress for his services . . .
since the 21st December, 1861," as well as "naval officers who
commanded vessels engaged in the recent brilliant operations [on the
lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans] of the squadron
commanded by Flag-Officer Farragut."
<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%3A482' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 14 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:214; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A483' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 14 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:214-15.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
In evening tells Sen. Browning (Ill.) about trip to Fortress Monroe, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-15'>Thursday, May 15, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President approves establishment of Dept. of Agriculture without
cabinet status.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 387.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes Gen. McClellan: "Have done, and shall do, all I could and can
to sustain you—hoped that the opening of James River, and
putting Wool and Burnside in communication, with an open road to
Richmond, or to you, had effected something in that direction. I am
still unwilling to take all our force off the direct line between
Richmond and here."
<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%3A485' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 15 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:216.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Refers to Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Cooper Shop,
Philadelphia establishments, in letter to Sen. Wilson (Mass.): "I
know nothing of the facts myself, and could only say hypothetically,
that if they have dealt so generously with our volunteers, as I have
frequently heard, and believe, they are indeed worthy of all praise."
<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%3A489' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry Wilson</xref>, 15 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:217-18.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-16'>Friday, May 16, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President transmits to Senate treaty with Kansas tribe 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%3A492' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, [16] May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:218-19.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Orders that his thanks for capture of Norfolk be sent to Gen. Wool by War Dept.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 17 May 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Confers with Gen. Charles S. Hamilton recently relieved of command by
Gen. McClellan, for reason that he is "not fit to command a Division."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 17 May 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%3A507' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 21 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:227.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-17'>Saturday, May 17, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President recognizes Christian Friedrich Mebius as consul at San
Francisco of Free Hanse City of Lübeck.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 21 May 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Reviews with
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
military situation in regard to Gen.
McClellan's request for reinforcements. Gen. McDowell is to move
toward Richmond and at same time keep approaches to Washington
covered.
<bibl default='NO'>Committee on Conduct of War, <title corresp='books_Congress2'>Report</title> (1863), 1:273.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Orders McDowell to retain separate command, obey orders of McClellan
while co-operating with him, and use own judgment in placing troops
for greatest protection of capital.
<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%3A494' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Irvin McDowell</xref>, [17 May 1862], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:219-20.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes Mary Motley, daughter of John L. Motley: "A friend of yours (a
young gentleman of course) tells me you do me the honor of requesting
my autograph. I could scarcely refuse any young lady—certainly
not the daughter of your distinguished father."
<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%3A495' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary Motley</xref>, 17 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:220-21.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-18'>Sunday, May
18, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> Asst. Sec. Fox
informs Lincoln that gunboats in James River were repulsed eight miles from
Richmond. <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress,
Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> In afternoon Lincoln confers with
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> regarding Gen. McClellan's request
for reinforcements. <bibl default='NO'>McClellan, <title corresp='books_McClellan'>War for
Union</title>, 345-46.</bibl>
</p>
<p> After 3 P.M. Sen. Browning (Ill.) and
President visit soldiers in hospital at Columbia College. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
<title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-19'>Monday, May 19, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President declares Gen. Hunter's General Orders No. 11 freeing slaves
in Dept. of South void, and "that neither General Hunter, nor any
other commander, or person, has been authorized by the Government of
the United States, to make proclamations declaring the slaves of any
State free." [See May 9, 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%3A499' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Revoking General Hunter's Order of Military Emancipation of May 9, 1862</xref>, 19 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:222-24.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Congressional delegation from Maryland, with 50 constituents from
Prince George's County, visits President regarding Fugitive Slave
Law. Lincoln assures delegation that Gen. Wadsworth will enforce law
in District of Columbia.
<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%3A500' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Maryland Slaveholders</xref>, 19 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:224; N.Y. Tribune, 20 May 1862; Boston Advertiser, 20 May 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Appoints Asst. Sec. of Treasury George Harrington "to discharge the
duties of Secretary of the Treasury, during the absence of Salmon P.
Chase."
<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%3A497' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Appointment of George Harrington</xref>, 19 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:221.</bibl>
</p>
</div2><div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> <date value='1862-05-20'>Tuesday, May 20, 1862.</date> <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline> <p>At Washington DC's navy yard, President Lincoln and "other distinguished public men" observe a demonstration "to test the capability of the description of iron armor adopted by our Navy Department to resist shot." A newspaper reports that the "experiments . . . proved perfectly satisfactory." <bibl default='NO'><title>Evening Star</title> (Washington, DC), 21 May 1862, 3:5.</bibl> </p> <p> Says he will not relieve Gen. Hunter even on own request. <bibl default='NO'>Ely to Chase, 20 May 1862, Salmon P. Chase Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> <p> At 6 P.M. <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and carriage call at Browning residence. President arrives on horseback. Goes riding with Sen. Browning (Ill.) and Capt. James N. Brown, Illinois cattleman. <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> Approves act securing homesteads to actual settlers on public domain, act providing primary schools for public instruction in District of Columbia outside Washington and Georgetown, and act prescribing qualification (oath of allegiance) for electors in cities of Washington and Georgetown, DC. <bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 392, 394, 403.</bibl> </p> <p> Inquires of Gen. McClellan: "Telegraph being open tell us the situation & suggest if you can anything about batteries at Fort Darling." <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%3A502' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 20 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:224.</bibl> </p> <p> Complies with request for autograph: "I beg that her ladyship [Sarah Sophia Fane, Lady Villiers] will accept the assurance of my sincere gratification at this opportunity of subscribing myself Very truly, Her Ladyship's obedient servant." <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%3A504' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lady Villiers</xref>, 20 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:225.</bibl> </p> </div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-21'>Wednesday, May 21, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President at War Dept. by 7 A.M.;
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> and Gen. Halleck join him there.
Later he visits Gen. Burnside at Willard's Hotel. <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1281.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Congressional delegation presents petition asking that Gen. C. S.
Hamilton be restored to command. <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%3A507' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 21 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:227.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Lt. Col.
Hicks at White House regarding appointment as aide-de-camp to Gen. Wool. <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%3A513' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum:
Appointment of George Montagu Hicks</xref>, 22 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:229.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President
communicates with Senate regarding arrests by military commander in Kentucky of
persons suspected of secessionist sympathies. <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%3A508' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 21 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:227.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Informs James Gordon
Bennett that secretary of war "mixes no politics whatever with his duties."
<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%3A505' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to James G. Bennett</xref>, 21 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:225-26.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Approves act
providing for education of colored children in cities of Washington and
Georgetown, DC, and for other purposes. <bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 407.</bibl>
</p>
<p> "Library of the Executive Mansion" orders from W. F. Richstein: "1 set
Stricklands England $21.00, 1 set Stricklands Scotland $20.00, 1 Mrs. Brownings
Poems $9.00, 1 Mrs. Sigourneys Poems $1.25, 1 Mrs. Osgood Poems $0.90." [Agnes
Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England . . ., Philadelphia, 1847-1859;
Lives of the Queens of Scotland, New York, 1851-59; Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Poems; Mrs. Lydia Howard Sigourney, Illustrated Poems, Philadelphia, 1860; Mrs.
Frances Sargent Osgood, Poems, New York, 1846. The third and fourth items paid
for by the President, the remaining ones by Commissioner French from annual
appropriation. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
Finances</title>, 180.</bibl>] </p>
<p> John Douglas, clerk, Reformed
Presbyterian Church, calls on President and presents document concerning
emancipation. <bibl default='NO'>Douglas to Lincoln, 14 October 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln
Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Library of Congress lends "Sparrowgrass Papers" to White
House. [Frederick Swartout Cozzens, The Sparrowgrass Papers; or, Living in the
Country, New York, 1856.] <bibl default='NO'>Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the
Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President confirms Gen. McClellan's understanding that in event of junction
with Gen. McDowell, McClellan is in command, except that no order can put
McDowell out of position to cover Washington. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A506' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 21 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:226-27.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Calls
attention of Sen. James F. Simmons (R.I.) to distressed girl from "your state"
who seeks employment. "See if you can not get Mr. Sec. Chase or friend [Isaac]
Newton to find her a place." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A509' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to James F. Simmons</xref>, 21 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:228.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Writes Sen. Sumner
(Mass.) regarding soldier subject to a lethargy arrested for falling asleep: "I
should not knowingly let him be punished, if shown he has the infirmity."
<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%3A510' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Charles Sumner</xref>, 21 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:228.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-22'>Thursday, May 22, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.3000, -77.4500' teiForm='name'>Fredericksburg, VA</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President forwards to House of Representatives information on
Faris-el-Hakin case of indemnity for maltreatment.
<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%3A512' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 22 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:229.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Accompanied by
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
and Comdr. Dahlgren embarks for visit to
army at Fredericksburg.
<bibl default='NO'>David C. Mearns, "Lincoln," in Arthur E. Bestor, <title>Three Presidents and Their Books: The Reading of Jefferson, Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt</title> (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1955), 80; Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes memorandum relative to appointment of Lt. Col. Hicks: "This
note, as Col. Hicks did verbally yesterday, attempts to excite me
against the
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Secretary of War</person>
, and therein is offensive to me. My
'order' as he is pleased to call it, is plainly no order at all."
<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%3A513' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of George Montagu Hicks</xref>, 22 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:229.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-23'>Friday, May 23, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.3000, -77.4500' teiForm='name'>Fredericksburg, VA</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Gen. McDowell and Col. Herman Haupt, aide-de-camp to McDowell and
chief of construction and transportation on military railroads, meet
President and party at Aquia Creek, Va., and accompany them in
baggage car to McDowell's headquarters on north side of Rappahannock.
President reviews various divisions and rides along lines with hat
off as men cheer. Leaves headquarters at 9 P.M. Leaves Aquia Creek on
return trip at 10 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Correspondence, typewritten copy prepared by H. H. Chapman, 6, Correspondence of Herman Haupt, Bureau of Railway Economics, Washington, DC; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XI, pt. 1, 30.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Transmits report 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%3A515' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 23 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:230.</bibl>
</p>
<quote>
<p>
[In May and June General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's campaign in
the Shenandoah Valley results in Union reverses, and a threat to
Washington.]
</p>
</quote>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-24'>Saturday, May
24, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President
arrives at Navy Yard about 5 A.M. on return trip from Fredericksburg, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of
Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Visits War Dept. in morning.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Confers with <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> regarding troop
movements. <bibl default='NO'>Committee on Conduct of War, <title corresp='books_Congress2'>Report</title> (1863), 1:274.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Spends
much of day in telegraph office directing troop movements under Gens. Fremont
and McDowell in consequence of Gen. Banks' critical position resulting from
Confederate break-through at Front Royal, Va. <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%3A516' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 24 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:230;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A517' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 24 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:231;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A518' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 24 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:231;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A519' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 24 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:231-32;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A520' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 24 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:232;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A521' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Irvin McDowell</xref>, 24 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:232-33;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A522' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Irvin McDowell</xref>, 24 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:233;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A523' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Dixon S. Miles</xref>, 24 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:234;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A524' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Rufus Saxton</xref>, 24 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:234.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Sends dispatch to
Fremont: "The exposed condition of General Banks makes his immediate relief a
point of paramount importance. You are therefore directed by the President to
move against Jackson at Harrisonberg and operate against the enemy in such way
as to relieve Banks." <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%3A516' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 24 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:230.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Telegraphs Gen.
Rufus Saxton at Harper's Ferry, Va.: (1 P.M.) "Please inform us, if possible,
what has become of the force which pursued Banks yesterday. Also, any other
information you have." <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%3A524' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Rufus Saxton</xref>, 24 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:234.</bibl>
</p>
<p> To Gen. Halleck near
Corinth, Miss., who seeks reinforcements, Lincoln writes: "We do the best we
can . . . each of our commanders along our line from Richmond to Corinth
supposes himself to be confronted by numbers superior to his own." <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%3A518' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 24 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:231.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Transmits report of
secretary of state on Mexican affairs to Senate. <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%3A525' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 24 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:234.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-25'>Sunday, May 25, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Following visit to Fredericksburg, Va., Sec. Chase reports to
President that Gen. McDowell has begun movement of 20,000 troops as
ordered.
<bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 88.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President "stampeded all day with news from Gen. Banks' army," which
was last reported in retreat to Martinsburg, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 25 May 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Telegraphs Gen. Saxton: (10½ P.M.) "Tell me the exact number
you now have in hand."
<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%3A532' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Rufus Saxton</xref>, 25 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:238.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Telegraphs Gen. McClellan military situation in vicinity of Front
Royal, Va., and Harper's Ferry, Va. Issues orders for placement of
men and movements of armies.
<bibl default='NO'>Committee on Conduct of War, <title corresp='books_Congress2'>Report</title> (1863), 1:275; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A529' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 25 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:236-37.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Another dispatch to McClellan concludes: "I think the time is near
when you must either attack Richmond or give up the job and come to
the defence of Washington."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A528' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 25 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:235-36.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sen. Browning (Ill.) at White House in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-26'>Monday, May
26, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President
remarks to Sen. Browning (Ill.) that Gen. Banks is over Potomac at
Williamsport, Md., in good order. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
<title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Replies to
resolution of censure by Congress. Exonerates former Sec. Cameron and states
"that not only the President but all the other heads of departments were at
least equally responsible with him for whatever error, wrong, or fault was
committed in the premises." <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%3A538' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 26 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:240-43.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Takes
military possession of all railroads in U.S. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 26
May 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p> "Library of the Executive Mansion" orders books from
W. F. Richstein: "1 Pearls of Ord Island $1.25, 1 Agnes of Sorrento $1.25."
[Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Pearl of Orr's Island, Boston, 1862; Agnes of
Sorrento, Boston, 1862.] <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
Finances</title>, 180.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Lincoln reports to Gen. McClellan: "We
have Genl Banks official report. He has saved his army & baggage & has
made a safe retreat to the river & is probably safe at Williamsport. He
reports the attacking force at fifteen thousand (15000)." <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%3A535' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 26 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:239.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Telegraphs
McClellan: "Can you not cut the Acquia Creek Railroad also? What impression
have you, as to intrenchments—works—for you to contend with in
front of Richmond? Can you get near enough to throw shells into the city?"
<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%3A536' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 26 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:239-40.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-27'>Tuesday, May 27, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President notifies Gov. Curtin (Pa.) that only troops who volunteer
for three years or for duration will be accepted.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Philadelphia News</title>, 28 May 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Telegraphs Gen. Fremont: "I see you are at Moorefield. You were
expressly ordered to march to Harrisonburg. What does this mean?"
<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%3A539' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 27 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:243.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
"Library of the Executive Mansion" orders books from W. F. Richstein:
"1 East Lynne $0.50, 1 Castle Wafer $0.50, 1 Earl Herr $0.50, 1
Chemmings $0.50, 1 Heir to Ashley $0.50, 1 Life Secret $0.50."
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 180.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
[It is not possible to specify editions, but titles of these novels
by Mrs. Ellen Price Wood are: East Lynne; Castle Wafer, or the Plain
Gold Ring; The Earl's Heirs, A Tale of Domestic Life; The Channings.
<bibl default='NO'>A Domestic Novel of Real Life; The Heir to Ashley; A Life's
Secret. A Story of Woman's Revenge.</bibl>]
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-28'>Wednesday, May 28, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President appears before Committee on Conduct of War and describes
400-foot railroad bridge across Potomac built by Col. Haupt as having
nothing in it but cornstalks and beanpoles.
<bibl default='NO'>Flower, <title corresp='books_Flower'>Stanton</title>, 225.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Spends part of evening at War Dept.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Stops by Ford's Theatre, 511 10th St. NW., where <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and
party are attending concert by opera star Clara Louise Kellogg.
<bibl default='NO'>David R. Barbee, "The Musical Mr. Lincoln," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 5 (December 1949):450-51.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Recommends Marshal Lamon: "My particular friend, born and raised at
Bunker-Hill, an excellent horseman, and, I think, will be most
valuable for scouting purposes."
<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%3A546' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Recommendation for Ward H. Lamon</xref>, 28 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:247.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Telegraphs Gen. McClellan: "I am very glad of Gen: F. J. [Fitz John]
Porter's victory [Hanover Court House]. Still, if it was a total rout
of the enemy, I am puzzled to know why the Richmond and
Fredericksburg Railroad was not seized. . . . That the whole force of
the enemy is concentrating in Richmond, I think can not be certainly
known to you or me. . . . I am painfully impressed with the
importance of the struggle before you; and I shall aid you all I can
consistently with my view of due regard to all points."
<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%3A541' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 28 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:244-45.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Telegraphs Gen. McDowell at Manassas Junction: "You say Gen. [John
W.] Geary's scouts report they find no enemy this side of the Blue
Ridge. Neither do I. Have <uLine>they</uLine> been <uLine>to</uLine>
the Blue Ridge looking for them? . . . I think the evidence now
preponderates that [Gen. Richard S.] Ewell [(CSA)] and Jackson are
still about Winchester. Assuming this, it is, for you a question of
legs. Put in all the speed you can. I have told Fremont as much, and
directed him to drive at them as fast as possible. By the way, I
suppose you know, Fremont has got up to Moorefield, instead of going
to Harrisonburg."
<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%3A544' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Irvin McDowell</xref>, 28 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:246; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A545' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Irvin McDowell</xref>, 28 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:246.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-29'>Thursday, May
29, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln
communicates with Gens. Fremont, Banks, McClellan, McDowell, and Marcy on
military matters. <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%3A548' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 29 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:247;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A547' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks</xref>, 29 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:247;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A549' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 29 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:248;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A550' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Irvin McDowell</xref>, 29 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:248;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A551' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Randolph B. Marcy</xref>, 29 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:248;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A552' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Randolph B. Marcy</xref>, 29 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:249.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Telegraphs
McClellan: "I think we shall be able, within three days, to tell you certainly,
whether any considerable force of the enemy, Jackson, or any one else is moving
onto Harper's Ferry, or vicinity. Take this expected development into your
calculations." <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%3A549' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 29 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:248.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Informs
McDowell: "Gen. Fremont's force should, and probably will, be at or near
Strasburg by twelve (noon) to-morrow. Try to have your force, or the advance of
it, at Front-Royal as soon." <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%3A550' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Irvin McDowell</xref>, 29 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:248.</bibl>
</p>
<p> In evening Sen.
Browning escorts Judge Williams to meeting with Lincoln and later accompanies
President to 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='1862-05-30'>Friday, May 30, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President transmits to Senate treaty with Republic of Salvador.
<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%3A563' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 30 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:253.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Orders military commission to meet in July for trial of editors who
have violated restrictions on publishing news.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 30 May 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Telegraphs Gen. Banks: "If the enemy, in force, is in or about
Martinsburg, Charlestown, and Winchester, or any or all of them, he
may come in collision with Fremont; in which case I am anxious that
your force, with you, and at Harper's Ferry, should so operate as to
assist Fremont, if possible."
<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%3A555' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks</xref>, 30 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:249.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sends three telegrams to Gen. Fremont: "(11½ A.M.) There can
not be more than twenty, probably not more than fifteen thousand of
the enemy, at or about Winchester. Where <uLine>is</uLine> your
force? It ought this minute to be near Strasburg. Answer at once. . .
. (2½ P.M.) Yours saying you will reach Strasburg, or
vicinity, at five PM, saturday, has been received and sent to Gen.
McDowell, & he directed to act in view of it. You must be up to
time you promise if possible. . . . (9½ P.M.) I send you a
despatch just received from Gen. Saxton at Harper's Ferry. It seems
the game is before you. Have sent a copy to Gen. 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%3A556' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 30 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:250; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A557' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 30 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:250; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A558' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 30 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:250-51.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sends four telegrams to Gen. McDowell: "(10 A.M.) I somewhat
apprehend that Fremont's force, in it's present condition, may not be
quite strong enough in case it comes in collision with the enemy. For
this additional reason, I wish you to push forward your column as
rapidly as possible. Tell me what number your force reaching Front
Royal will amount to. . . . (12:40 [P.M.]) Your despatch of to-day
received, and is satisfactory. Fremont has nominally twenty-two
thousand, really about seventeen thousand. . . . I have a despatch
from Fremont this morning, not telling me where he is, but he says
'Scouts and men from Winchester represent Jacksons force variously at
thirty to sixty thousand. With him Gen. Ewell and [Gen. James]
Longstreet [CSA].' The high figures erroneous of course. Do you not
know where Longstreet is? . . . (2½ P.M.) Here-with I send a
telegram just received from Gen. Fremont. . . . you will act your
discretion, taking this information into your calculation. . . .
(9½ P.M.) I send you a despatch just received from Gen. Saxton
at Harper's Ferry—It seems the game is before you. Have sent a
copy to Gen. Fremont."
<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%3A559' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Irvin McDowell</xref>, 30 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:251; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A560' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Irvin McDowell</xref>, 30 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:252; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A561' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Irvin McDowell</xref>, 30 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:252; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A562' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Irvin McDowell</xref>, 30 May 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:252.</bibl>
</p>
<quote>
<p>
[On May 31, 1862-June 1, 1862 at Fair Oaks Station, about 8 miles
east of Richmond, McClellan's forces are attacked by Confederates
commanded by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who is wounded and, on June 1,
1862, succeeded as Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia by Gen.
Robert E. Lee.]
</p>
</quote>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-05-31'>Saturday, May
31, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President
loiters about War Dept. telegraph office in afternoon with Maj. Thomas T.
Eckert, anxious for news. Operator sends out requests for news. <bibl default='NO'>Marcy to
McClellan, 31 May 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress,
Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> At 11 P.M. first dispatch on battle before
Richmond reaches White House. <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 2 June 1862, John G.
Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Lincoln
telegraphs Gen. McClellan: "(10.20 P.M.) A circle whose circumference shall
pass through Harper's Ferry, Front-Royal, and Strasburg, and whose center shall
be a little North East of Winchester, almost certainly has within it this
morning, the forces of Jackson, Ewell, and [Gen.] Edward Johnson [(CSA)]. . . .
Some part of these forces attacked Harper's Ferry at dark last evening, . . .
Shields—with McDowell's advance, re-took Front Royal at 11 A.M.
yesterday, . . . Fremont . . . promises to be at or near Strasburg at 5 P.M.
to-day. Banks, at Williamsport, with his old force, and his new force at
Harper's Ferry, is directed to cooperate." <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%3A567' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 31 May 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:254.</bibl>
</p>
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