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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-01'>Sunday, June 1, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President and Asst. Sec. Fox at War Dept. all morning awaiting news
of outcome of Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks).
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln sends three telegrams to Gen. McClellan: [9:30 A.M.] "You are
probably engaged with the enemy. . . . Stand well on your
guard—hold all your ground, . . . This morning we merge Gen.
Wool's department into yours, giving you command of the whole, and
sending Gen. Dix to Fortress-Monroe, and Gen. Wool to Fort-McHenry.
We also send Gen. Sigel to report to you for duty. . . . [1:1 P.M.] I
suggest—(do not order) that he [Gen. Sigel] have command of
such of the forces about Fort-Monroe, Norfolk, Newports-News, &c.
as you may see fit to put into active service. . . . [5. P.M.] . . .
If the enemy shall not have renewed the attack this afternoon, I
think the hardest of your work is done. Shields' advance came in
collision with part of the enemy yesterday evening six miles from
Front-Royal . . . driving them back, . . . We have concluded to send
Gen. Sigel to Harper's Ferry."
<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%3A568' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 1 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:255; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A569' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 1 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:255; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A570' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 1 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:255-56.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
In afternoon Joseph C. G. Kennedy, superintendent of census, calls at
White House and walks through grounds with President.
<bibl default='NO'>Kennedy to McClellan, 12 June 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
At 6 P.M. President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> stroll in White House grounds
with Sen. Browning (Ill.). Later Browning accompanies Lincoln to War
Dept. for news of fighting near Richmond.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
In evening group of generals and senators meet with President in War
Dept. to review late war news.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> sends Mrs. G. V. Fox bouquet of roses.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-02'>Monday, June 2, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President communicates with Senate regarding Gen. Hooker's report on
Battle of Williamsburg. [Action May 5, 1862 at Williamsburg, Va.]
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 3 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Converses with Sen. Browning (Ill.) at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Asks Gen. Ripley: "Please consider whether this Musket-shell, would
be a valuable missile in battle?"
<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%3A575' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James W. Ripley</xref>, 2 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:257.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-03'>Tuesday, June
3, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President
promises Kentucky congressional delegation at White House that Herman Franks,
indicted for treason, will be pardoned upon receipt of its written request.
<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%3A580' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Edward Bates</xref>, 4 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:258.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Cautions Gen.
McClellan: "With these continuous rains, I am very anxious about the
Chickahominy so close in your rear, and crossing your line of communication.
Please look well to it." <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%3A577' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Geroge B. McClellan</xref>, 3 June 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:257-58.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Telegraphs
Gen. McDowell: "(6.15 P.M.) Anxious to know whether Shields can head or flank
Jackson. Please tell about where Shields and Jackson respectively are, at the
time this reaches 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%3A578' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Irvin McDowell</xref>, 3 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:258.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-04'>Wednesday, June 4, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President transmits to House of Representatives report on closing of
Negro schools in North Carolina by Mil. Gov. Edward Stanly (N.C.).
<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%3A583' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 4 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:259-60.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
As requested by Kentucky delegation, pardons H. Franks indicted for treason.
<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%3A580' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward Bates</xref>, 4 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:258.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Forwards to Senate documentation on American claims against Paraguay
for damages to vessel "Water Witch."
<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%3A585' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 4 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:260.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Telegraphs Gen. Halleck at Corinth, Miss., after receiving report
that 10,000 prisoners have been captured: "Your despatch of to-day to
Sec. of War received. Thanks for the good news it brings. Have you
anything from Memphis or other parts of the Mississippi river? Please
answer."
<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%3A581' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 4 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:259.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Asks Mil. Gov. Johnson at Nashville: "Do you really
<uLine>wish</uLine> to have control of the question of releasing
rebel prisoners so far as they may be Tennesseeans? If you do, please
tell us so distinctly. Your answer not to be made public."
<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%3A584' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew Johnson</xref>, 4 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:260.</bibl>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-05'>Thursday, June 5, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President approves bill providing commissioners to Liberia and Haiti,
first Negro governments to be recognized by Congress.
<bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 227.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Spanish minister presents Gens. Prim and Milans to President and Sec. Seward.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln receives acclaim of Maine Republican State Convention.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 10 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sen. Browning (Ill.) has tea in Lincoln's room.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President receives May salary warrant for $2,083.34.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
privately: "The proposed reappointment of William
Kellogg, Jr. to a Cadetship . . . [is] . . . painful to me. . . . the
father . . . is my personal friend of more than twenty year's
standing. . . . This matter touches him very deeply—the
feelings of a father for a child—as he thinks, all the future
of his child. I can not be the instrument to crush his heart. . . .
Let the appointment be made."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A587' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 5 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:261.</bibl>
</p>
</div2><div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> <date value='1862-06-06'>Friday, June 6, 1862.</date> <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline> <p>In the White House, President Lincoln meets with Maryland Governor Augustus W. Bradford and Colonel John R. Kenly, whose Union forces were defeated at Front Royal, Virginia, on May 23. The Confederates captured and imprisoned Kenly and many other members of Maryland's First Regiment. The Confederates paroled Kenly so that he could negotiate "an exchange for himself and those of his command." A newspaper reports, "President Lincoln received the gallant officer very kindly, and inquired with much interest into the details of the battle." <bibl default='NO'><title>Evening Star</title> (Washington, DC), 6 June 1862, 3:6; <title>Sun</title> (Baltimore, MD), 6 June 1862, 1:6; 7 June 1862, 1:2.</bibl> </p> <p> Interviews Vincent Colyer, educator from North Carolina, regarding action of Gov. Stanly in closing Colyer's school for loyal Negroes, in order to foster good relations with people of North Carolina. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 7 June 1862.</bibl> </p> <p> Directs <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> to transfer Gen. McCall's division from Gen. McDowell to Gen. McClellan immediately. <bibl default='NO'>Committee on Conduct of War, <title corresp='books_Congress2'>Report</title> (1863), 1:334.</bibl> </p> </div2>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-07'>Saturday, June
7, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> Approves act for
collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts within U.S., and for
other purposes. <bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 422.</bibl>
</p>
<p> White House announces
there will be no music in "President's grounds" this season. <bibl default='NO'>National
Intelligencer, 7 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President writes recommendation:
"The bearer of this, Edward Burke [Benke?], has been here at the White-House,
several months, during my residence here, and has appeared to me to be a quiet,
orderly, and faithful man." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A595' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Recommendation
for Edward Burke</xref>, 7 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:263.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Telegraphs Gen.
McClellan: "Your despatch about Chattanooga and Dalton was duly received and
sent to Gen. Halleck. I have just received the following answer from him. We
have Fort-Pillow, Randolph, and Memphis." <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%3A594' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Geroge B. McClellan</xref>, 7 June 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:263.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-08'>Sunday, June 8, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President examines cases of soldiers imprisoned by courts-martial in
District of Columbia penitentiary.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 9 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-09'>Monday, June 9, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President receives Capt. Com. Schonheyden and Lt. Steen Bitlee of Danish Navy.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 9 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Telegraphs Gen. Banks at Winchester, Va.: "We are arranging a general
plan for the valley of the Shenandoah; . . . move your main force to
the Shenandoah at or opposite Front-Royal as soon as 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%3A598' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks</xref>, 9 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:264.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Orders Gen. Fremont at Harrisonburg, Va.: "Halt at Harrisonburg,
pursuing Jackson no farther; . . . stand on the defensive, . . . and
await further orders."
<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%3A599' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 9 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:264.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-10'>Tuesday, June 10, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President transmits to Congress treaty with England for suppression
of African slave trade. [See April 7, 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>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> sends strawberries and flowers to Mrs. G. V. Fox.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-11'>Wednesday, June 11, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President confers with Gen. Burnside who leaves shortly for Fortress
Monroe, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Burnside to McClellan, 13 June 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
In evening at White House, Lincoln, Sen. Browning (Ill.), Marshal
Lamon, and Gen. Wadsworth discuss operation of Fugitive Slave Law in
District of Columbia.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-12'>Thursday, June 12, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
At 9 A.M. former Sen. Johnson (Md.) and Sen. Browning (Ill.) confer
with Lincoln about appointment of collector of customs at New Orleans.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Kentucky delegation in Congress waits upon President and protests
against prisoner exchange of Gen. Simon B. Buckner (CSA) for Gen.
Benjamin M. Prentiss.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 13 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President sends to House of Representatives information relative to
Circuit Court of U.S. for state of California, and judge of said
court.
<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%3A610' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 12 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:268.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes Gen. Fremont: "Accounts which we do not credit, represent that
Jackson is largely reinforced, and is turning upon you. . . . keep us
well and frequently advised; and if you find yourself really pressed
. . . fall back cautiously towards, or to, Winchester, . . . and we
will in, due time, have Gen. Banks in position to sustain 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%3A609' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 12 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:267-68.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> spends part of day visiting military hospitals.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 12 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-13'>Friday, June
13, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lord Lyons has
audience with President on eve of departure for Europe and several weeks'
vacation. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 13 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Lincoln's family
moves to Soldiers' Home for summer. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
<title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President
recognizes appointment of Jorge Federico Darby as consul general of Uruguay at
New York. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 16 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Forwards
to Congress memorial on behalf of state of New York in favor of enlarging locks
of Erie and Oswego canals. <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%3A613' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 13 June 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:270.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Telegraphs
Gen. Fremont: "We can not afford to keep your force, and Banks', and
McDowell's, engaged in keeping Jackson South of Strasburg and Front-Royal. . .
. The orders already sent you and Banks place you and him in the proper
positions for the work assigned you. . . . Please do as I directed in the order
of the 8th. and my despatch of yesterday, the 12th. and neither you nor Banks
will be overwhelmed by Jackson." <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%3A612' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 13 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:269-70.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-14'>Saturday, June 14, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln directs Atty. Gen. Bates to remit fine of $20 imposed on
Hermann Kirchner, Washington restaurateur, for sending brandy to
wounded soldier in neighboring house, if in his opinion President has
legal power to order remittance.
<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%3A614' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward Bates</xref>, 14 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:270.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-15'>Sunday, June 15, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President writes Gen. Fremont that Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson's "game"
is to keep "our troops" away from Richmond, and "our game" is not to
allow this.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A615' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 15 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:270-72.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
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<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-16'>Monday, June 16, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President orders Gen. R. E. Lee's house at Arlington Heights
converted into hospital.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 17 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Borrows "Stowe's Key to Uncle Tom" from Library of Congress. [Harriet
Beecher Stowe, A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original
Facts and Documents upon which the Story is Founded. Together with
Corroborative Statements Verifying the Work, Boston and Cleveland,
1853.]
<bibl default='NO'>Borrower's Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
In letter to Gen. Fremont, Lincoln reviews their understandings
relative to number of troops for Mountain Dept. He concludes: "I am
not demanding of you to do the work of thirtyfive thousand. I am only
asking of you to stand cautiously on the defensive, get your force in
order, and give such protection as you can to the valley of the
Shenandoah, and to Western Virginia."
<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%3A617' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John C. Fremont</xref>, 16 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:273-74.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Acknowledges letter of Gen. Schurz from Mount Jackson, Va., and
thinks Schurz in error about superior force of Gen. Jackson and his
victory over Gen. Shields.
<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%3A618' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Carl Schurz</xref>, 16 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:274-75.</bibl>
</p>
</div2><div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> <date value='1862-06-17'>Tuesday, June 17, 1862.</date> <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline> <p> President communicates with House of Representatives regarding reorganization of Medical Dept. of Army. <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%3A619' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 17 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:275.</bibl> </p> <p> President Lincoln issues a proclamation announcing a "Special Treaty between the United States of America and his Majesty the King of Hanover." The agreement eliminates the "tolls" that the Hanover government imposes on American cargo ships. <bibl default='NO'><title>Daily National Intelligencer</title> (Washington, DC), 19 June 1862, 2:4.</bibl> </p> </div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-18'>Wednesday, June 18, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President recognizes appointment of Baron von der
Osten-Sacken as consul general of Russia at New York. <bibl default='NO'>National
Intelligencer, 20 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President and Vice President
Hamlin ride horseback to Soldiers' Home for evening meal. After dinner they
retire to library and behind locked doors Lincoln reads draft of Emancipation
Proclamation. <bibl default='NO'>Charles E. Hamlin, <title>Life and Times of Hannibal
Hamlin</title> (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1899), 429.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Telegraphs Gen. McClellan regarding transfer of 10,000 Confederate troops from
Richmond to Shenandoah Valley: "If this be true, it is as good as a
reinforcement to you of an equal force. I could better dispose of things if I
could know about what day you can attack Richmond, and would be glad to be
informed, if you think you can inform me with safety." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A622' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 18 June 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:276.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-19'>Thursday, June 19, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President, accompanied by
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
and Gen. Wadsworth, reviews
Scott Cavalry Regiment.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 20 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Secretary of Senate ordered to "wait upon Presdt. of U.S. and inform
him that, in the absence of the V.P., the Senate has chosen the
Honorable Solomon Foot Presdt. of the Senate pro tempore."
<bibl default='NO'>Memorandum, 19 June 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President approves act securing freedom to all persons within U.S. territories.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 432.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes Gen. McClellan: "If large re-inforcements are going from
Richmond to Jackson, it proves one of two things, either that they
are very strong at Richmond, or do not mean to defend the place
desperately."
<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%3A625' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 19 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:277.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-20'>Friday, June 20, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Sec. Chase at White House during morning.
<bibl default='NO'>Hall to Chase, 20 June 1862, Salmon P. Chase Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President announces signing of treaty with Mexico for extradition of criminals.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 24 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Delegation of Progressive Friends waits upon President with memorial
against slavery. Lincoln responds saying that he had 'sometime
thought that perhaps he might be an instrument of God's hands of
accomplishing a great work.' Sens. David Wilmot (Pa.) and Wilson
(Mass.) accompany group.
<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%3A628' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks to a Delegation of Progressive Friends</xref>, 20 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:278-79; Rice, 281-83.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln writes Gen. McClellan that reports on Gen. Jackson being
reinforced from Richmond may be contrivance for deception. "If we
knew it were not true, we could send you some more force, but as the
case stands, we do not think we safely can."
<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%3A627' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 20 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:277-78.</bibl>
</p>
</div2><div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> <date value='1862-06-21'>Saturday, June 21, 1862.</date> <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline> <p> President nominates 255 generals, of whom 19 are major generals. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 23 June 1862.</bibl> </p> <p>President Lincoln writes to Major General George B. McClellan, who commands the Army of the Potomac, regarding McClellan's offer to provide Lincoln with an assessment of the "present state of Military affairs throughout the whole country." Lincoln expresses interest unless doing so "would . . . divert too much of your time, and attention from the Army under your immediate command." Lincoln adds, "I would be very glad to talk with you, but you can not leave your camp, and I can not well leave here." <bibl default='NO'> George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, 20 June 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%3A629' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 21 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:279-80.</bibl> </p> <p> Interviews D. O. Macomber of firm of Ferriss & Macomber, who urges trial and use of Ferriss gun. <bibl default='NO'>Macomber to Lincoln, 11 January 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> </div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-22'>Sunday, June 22, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President announces signing of postal convention with Mexico.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 25 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-23'>Monday, June
23, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.
</dateline>
<p> President lays before Senate two treaties providing for loan to
Republic of 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%3A632' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 23 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:281-82.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Returns to
Senate, with objections, act regarding circulation of bank notes. <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%3A633' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 23 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:282-83.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Accompanied by
Gen. Pope leaves Washington at 4 P.M. on special train arriving New York at
1:30 A.M. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 26 June 1862; Boston Advertiser, 25
June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-24'>Tuesday, June 24, 1862.</date>
<place key='40.7000, -74.0000' teiForm='name'>New York, NY</place> and <place key='41.3833, -73.9500' teiForm='name'>West Point, NY</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President changes trains in New York after 1:30 A.M. and proceeds to
West Point for conference with Gen. Scott. Crosses Hudson River by
ferry from Garrison, N.Y., and registers at Cozzen's Hotel in West
Point about 3 A.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 25 June 1862; National Intelligencer, 26 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
From breakfast at 7:30 A.M. until noon consults with Gen. Scott on
further dispositions of military forces.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 26 June 1862; LL, No. 1168.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Makes inspection tour of Military Academy from noon until 3 P.M.
dinner party at hotel.
<bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1168.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
After dinner visits Parrott's Cold Spring Foundry three miles away
and sees rifled cannon in production.
<bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 187-88.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
From 9 to 11 P.M. receives guests in hotel parlor. Military Academy
band serenades him at midnight.
<bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1168.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President transmits order through State Dept. to Gen. Butler in New
Orleans to discontinue requiring loyalty oaths of foreigners,
including British consul.
<bibl default='NO'>DNA—WR RG 107, Off. Sec. War, Letters Received, Box 2, Seward to Stanton, 24 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-25'>Wednesday, June 25, 1862.</date>
<place key='41.3833, -73.9500' teiForm='name'>West Point, NY</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President and party consisting of Gen. Scott, Col. Daniel C.
McCallum, director of military railroads, and reporters leave West
Point at 10:10 A.M..
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 27 June 1862; N.Y. Tribune, 26 June 1862; Boston Advertiser, 26 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Arriving Jersey City approximately 11:30 A.M., Lincoln responds to
request of crowd at depot: "I can only say that my visit to West
Point did not have the importance which has been attached to it."
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Philadelphia News</title>, 26 June 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%3A636' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Jersey City, New Jersey</xref>, 24 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:284.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Reaches Washington at 6:50 P.M., setting record run from New York.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 26 June 1862; Washington Star, 26 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sen. Browning (Ill.) and friends visit Lincoln at Soldiers' Home in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<quote>
<p>
[On June 26, 1862, action at Mechanicsville, Va. begins Seven Days'
Battle, during which McClellan changes his base to the James River
and on the night of July 1, 1862, withdraws to Harrison's Landing,
ending the unsuccessful Peninsular Campaign.]
</p>
</quote>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-26'>Thursday, June 26, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President issues order combining forces under Gens. Fremont, Banks,
and McDowell into new Army of Virginia under command of Gen. Pope.
<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%3A640' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Constituting the Army of Virginia</xref>, 26 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:287.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Transmits treaty with Kansas Indians 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%3A641' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 26 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:287-88.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Pardons William Griffin, believing that he has been sufficiently
punished for desertion.
<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%3A637' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward Bates</xref>, 26 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:285.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-27'>Friday, June 27, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President orders that Gen. Fremont be relieved of command and
resignation accepted.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Philadelphia News</title>, 28 June 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
[Irwin withdraws from Springfield Marine Bank $9 for payment of
interest on scholarship, Illinois State University.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>]
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-28'>Saturday, June 28, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln prepares letter
addressed to Sec. Seward to be used by him at conference of Union governors in
New York prompting them to issue new calls for troops: "I expect to maintain
this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term
expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me." <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%3A649' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 28 June 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:291-92.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President
Lincoln writes to West Point cadet Quintin Campbell, who is related to
Lincoln's wife Mary. Lincoln learned from Quintin's mother Ann Campbell that
her son is "feeling very badly." Lincoln encourages Quintin to "stick to the
resolution you have taken to procure a military education. I am older than you,
have felt badly myself, and <uLine>know</uLine>, what I tell you is true. . . . [I]f
you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and
will regret it all your life. Take the advice of a friend, who, though he never
saw you, deeply sympathizes with you, and stick to your purpose. Sincerely 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%3A643' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Quintin Campbell</xref>, 28 June 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:288.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Telegraphs
Gen. McClellan: "Save your Army at all events. Will send re-inforcements as
fast as we can. . . . I feel any misfortune to you and your Army quite as
keenly as you feel it yourself. . . . It is the nature of the case, and neither
you or the government that is to blame. Please tell at once the present
condition and aspect of things." <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%3A646' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 28 June 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:289-91.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-29'>Sunday, June 29, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President breakfasts with Asst. Sec. of War Watson at
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
residence.
<bibl default='NO'>Watson to Stanton, 29 June 1862, Edwin M. Stanton Papers, Library of Congress, Washington DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Interviews Charles C. Fulton editor Baltimore "American," fresh from
battlefields in vicinity of Richmond.
<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%3A650' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 29 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:292-93.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1862-06-30'>Monday, June 30, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Senate confirms President's nomination of I. Newton to be
commissioner of agriculture.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 1 July 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sen. Browning (Ill.) at White House in morning converses with Lincoln
about fighting before Richmond. In evening Browning, accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Dorman of Florida, visits President at
Soldiers' Home.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln approves, but does not issue, call for 150,000 men drafted by
Sec. Seward at New York conference of governors.
<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%3A651' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Call for Troops</xref>, 30 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:293-94.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Telegraphs Gen. Halleck that 25,000 men would be welcome but
expedition against Chattanooga must not be weakened. "To take and
hold the Rail-road at, or East of, Cleveland in East Tennessee, I
think fully as important as the taking and holding of Richmond."
<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%3A653' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 30 June 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:295.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
[Irwin deposits in Springfield Marine Bank $955.80, balance of
principal and interest paid by N. W. Edwards on notes.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>]
</p>
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