<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-01'>Tuesday, July 1, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President decides to call into military service 300,000 volunteers 
and urges governors of 17 states and military board of Kentucky to 
furnish their quotas.
<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%3A657' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Call for 300,000 Volunteers</xref>, 1 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:296-97.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
After breakfast discusses confiscation bills with Sen. Browning 
(Ill.) at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves act providing for internal revenue tax of 3 per cent on 
incomes in excess of $600 for support of government and payment of 
interest on public debt.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 432.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $2 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
President telegraphs Gen. McClellan: "It is impossible to re-inforce 
you for your present emergency. . . . If you are not strong enough to 
face the enemy you must find a place of security, . . . save the Army 
. . . even if you fall back to Fortress-Monroe. We still have 
strength enough in the country, and will bring it out."
<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%3A659' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 1 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:298.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Proclaims real estate taxes plus penalty of 50 per cent to be lien on 
property in rebellious states.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A660' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Concerning Taxes in Rebellious States</xref>, 1 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:298-99.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recommends to Congress that Capt. Andrew H. Foote (USN) receive vote of thanks.
<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%3A661' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 1 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:299.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-07-02'>Wednesday, July 2, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President announces signing of treaty of commerce
  with Ottoman Empire. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 6 August 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cong. George W. Julian (Ind.) discusses military outlook with President. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Rice, 54.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In conference with <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec.
  Stanton</person> on subject of fugitive Negroes President decides that by law
  they cannot be sent back to masters, should not be allowed to starve, should be
  given work and paid reasonable wages. <bibl default='NO'>Butler,
  <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 2:41-42.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Signs number of important bills; among them, Act to Prohibit Polygamy in Utah,
  and Pacific Railroad Act. <bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 21 July 1862; N.Y. Tribune,
  3 July 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Reads Gen. McClellan's dispatches to Sen. Browning
  (Ill.) at White House. <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Approves Morrill Land
  Grant College Act donating public lands to states and territories providing
  colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts. <bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 503.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Again writes Gen. Halleck that reinforcements would be welcome but not
  at cost of delaying Chattanooga expedition. Asks if Halleck could "make me a
  flying visit." <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%3A666' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 2 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:300-1.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Informs McClellan
  that "the idea of sending you fifty thousand, or any other considerable force
  promptly, is simply absurd. . . . Save the Army, . . . and I will strengthen it
  for the offensive again, as fast as I 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%3A667' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 2 July 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:301-2.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Returns to
  Senate unapproved bill for additional medical officers because it is superseded
  by approved bill. <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%3A669' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 2 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:302.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-03'>Thursday, July 3, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President telegraphs governors of loyal states: "If I had fifty 
thousand additional troops here <uLine>now</uLine>, I believe I could 
substantially close the war in two weeks."
<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%3A674' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Union Governors</xref>, 3 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:304.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gen. McClellan: "All accounts say better fighting was 
never done. Ten thousand thanks for it." Help should come soon from 
Gens. Burnside and Hunter, but not from Gen. Halleck.
<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%3A672' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 3 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:303-4.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-04'>Friday, July 4, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Marcy interviews President and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to press Gen. 
McClellan's plea for reinforcements.
<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%3A677' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 4 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:305-6.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Soldiers of War of 1812 assemble in Post Office Dept. at 11 A.M. and 
march to White House to pay their respects. Lincoln replies to 
remarks of Col. William W. Seaton, president of Association of 
Surviving Soldiers of War of 1812 and editor of Washington 
"Intelligencer."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 5 July 1862; N.Y. Tribune, 7 July 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asks Gen. Halleck at Corinth, Miss., to send 10,000 infantry if it 
can be done without changing any plans. "Some part of the Corinth 
Army is certainly fighting McClellan in front of Richmond. Prisoners 
are in our hands from the late Corinth 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%3A676' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 4 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:305.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Meets train of ambulances on road to Soldiers' Home and rides along 
some distance talking to casualties from peninsular campaign.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 8 July 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At Soldiers' Home in evening reviews recent military actions around 
Richmond with Gen. Meigs and Henry H. Sibley, former governor of 
Minnesota.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Meigs Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-07-05'>Saturday, July
  5, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  recognizes Enrique de Ainz as consul of Spain at Portland, Maine and Friedrich
  Kuhne as consul for Principality of Reuss Schleitz at New York. <bibl default='NO'>National
  Intelligencer, 9 July 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At telegraph office in afternoon
  joins conversation of <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> and Maj.
  Eckert. <bibl default='NO'>Eckert to Colburn, 5 July 1862, George B. McClellan Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Thanks Gen. McClellan for
  relief afforded by recent dispatches. "If you can hold your present position,
  we shall <uLine>'hive'</uLine> the enemy yet." <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%3A680' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 5 July 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:307.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits to
  Senate treaty with "Sac and Fox Indians of the Mississippi." <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%3A681' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 5 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:307.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In evening Sen.
  Browning (Ill.) and friends visit Lincoln at Soldiers' Home. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln retires
  early, too exhausted to keep any appointments. <bibl default='NO'>Bache to Nicolay, 11 July
  1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives June salary warrant for
  $2,083.33. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 182.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> 
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person> in carriage on way to Soldiers' Home tells Comdr. Dahlgren
  that President frequently passes sleepless nights. <bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren
  Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-06'>Sunday, July 6, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President consents to request of Col. Sprague to visit Gen. Halleck 
at Corinth, Miss., for purpose of getting part of his forces directed 
against 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%3A682' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 6 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:308.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends Gen. McClellan message signed by Gen. King stating that 
Richmond "Examiner" censures "the confederate Generals severely for 
failing to capture Genl. McClellan and his army and pronounces 
McClellans whole movement a masterpiece of strategy."
<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%3A683' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 6 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:308-9.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-07'>Monday, July 7, 1862.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and military party leave Washington aboard U.S.S. "Ariel" 
at early hour to visit Gen. McClellan with Army of Potomac at 
Harrison's Landing, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 13 July 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; N.Y. Tribune, 10 July 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-08'>Tuesday, July 8, 1862.</date>
            <place key='37.0167, -76.3333' teiForm='name'>Fortress Monroe, VA</place> and <place key='37.3000, -77.1667' teiForm='name'>Harrison's Landing, VA</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President docks at Fortress Munroe early in morning and interviews 
Gen. Burnside on board. Later Gen. Dix and staff call on Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 10 July 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 7:30 A.M. President telegraphs John Nicolay to borrow and send 
Robert Lincoln $280.
<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%3A685' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John G. Nicolay</xref>, 8 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:309.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Proceeds up James River and arrives Harrison's Landing at 6 P.M. as 
cannon from Flag Officer Goldsborough's flagship fire salute. Reviews 
army by corps and division until 9 P.M. Receives cheers of soldiers 
as he rides by waving his stovepipe hat.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 12 July 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. McClellan goes aboard U.S.S. "Ariel" and presents his letter of 
July 7, 1862, the "Harrison Bar Letter," to Lincoln who reads it at 
once. Lincoln makes no comment on contents, which are McClellan's 
personal views on current political and military conditions.
<bibl default='NO'>McClellan, <title corresp='books_McClellan'>War for Union</title>, 487; Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 2:100.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-07-09'>Wednesday, July 9, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='37.3000, -77.1667' teiForm='name'>Harrison's
  Landing, VA</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln
  interviews officers of Army of Potomac on military problems and records results
  in memorandum. <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%3A686' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum
  of Interviews Between Lincoln and Officers of the Army of the Potomac</xref>,
  8-9 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:309-12.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Visits with soldiers and examines various features of army. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y.
  Tribune, 10 July 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Stops at Fortress Monroe, Va., in
  morning on return trip to Washington. Visits several batteries and receives
  salutes. Dines with Gen. Burnside on board steamer "Alice Price." Departs about
  4:30 P.M. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 11 July 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At
  Hampton Roads, Va., Lincoln receives Capt. E. P. G. Von Duop of H.M.S. "Jason"
  for brief social call. <bibl default='NO'>Great Britain, Public Record Office
  F.O.5/863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "Domestic Various." Transmits to Senate postal
  convention with Costa Rica. <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%3A687' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 9 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:312.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> arrives in New York City in evening and
  occupies apartments reserved in Metropolitan Hotel. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 10 July
  1862.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-10'>Thursday, July 10, 1862.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President, accompanied by Cols. Blair and James Nagle and Asst. Sec. 
Watson, arrives at Navy Yard in afternoon aboard U.S.S. "Ariel" from 
three-day trip to Army of Potomac.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 11 July 1862; Nicolay to Bates, 13 July 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"Ariel" runs aground on Kettle Shoals and is delayed several hours 
during which time President and party go for swim in Potomac.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Transcript, 11 July 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln confers with Gov. Curtin (Pa.) on appointment of commissioner 
of internal revenue.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Chase, 9 July 1862, Salmon P. Chase Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-11'>Friday, July 11, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President orders that Gen. Henry W. Halleck be assigned to command 
whole land forces of U.S. as general in chief.
<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%3A688' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Making Henry W. Halleck General-in-Chief</xref>, 11 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:312-13.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Halleck: "Gov. Johnson, at Nashville is in trouble and great 
anxiety about a raid into Kentucky. The Gov. is . . . indispensable 
to us in Tennessee. Will you please get in communication with him, . 
. . before you leave for 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%3A689' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 11 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:313.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recommends to Congress that thanks be given to following officers of 
Navy: Capts. James L. Lardner, Charles H. Davis, and Silas H. 
Stringham; Comdrs. John A. Dahlgren, Stephen C. Rowan, and David D. 
Porter.
<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%3A693' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 11 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:315-16.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate treaty with Kickapoo Indians of Kansas.
<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%3A692' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 11 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:315.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes order to complete construction of southwest branch of Pacific 
Railroad in Missouri.
<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%3A691' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Extending the Pacific Railroad</xref>, 11 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:314-15.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Sen. Browning (Ill.) and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 at Executive Mansion.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves act implementing Anglo-American treaty for suppression of 
African slave trade.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 53.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-07-12'>Saturday, July 12, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p>In the White House, President
  Lincoln meets with Congressmen representing the border states, and urges, "Let
  the states which are in rebellion see...that, in no event, will the states you
  represent ever join their proposed Confederacy." Lincoln proposes that
  border-state slaveholders release their slaves in return for "substantial
  compensation" from the federal government. He reasons that the "friction and
  abrasion...[and] the mere incidents of the war" will erode "the institution [of
  slavery]...It will be gone, and you will have nothing valuable in lieu of 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%3A697' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Appeal
  to Border State Representatives to Favor Compensated Emancipation</xref>, 12
  July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:317-19; <title>New York
  Daily Tribune</title> (NY), 19 July 1862, 12:1.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits to
  House of Representatives information regarding relations with foreign powers. 
  <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%3A698' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 12 July 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:319.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Signs bill
  creating national award for valor to be known as Congressional Medal of Honor. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 623.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Gen. Burnside who will
  leave in evening for Gen. McClellan's headquaters. <bibl default='NO'>Marcy to McClellan, 12
  July 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Directs <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> to
  write authorization for Gen. Dix to negotiate general exchange of prisoners. 
  <bibl default='NO'>U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War,
  <title>Supplemental Report on the Conduct of the War</title>, 2 vols., 38th
  Cong., 2d sess. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1866), 2:Hitchcock
  Report, 3.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and
  Robert leave New York for West Point, N.Y. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 12 July
  1862.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-07-13'>Sunday, July 13, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln calculates strength of Army of Potomac on paper and
  sends figures to Gen. McClellan for explanation. Records show 160,000 men sent
  to army on peninsula. Lincoln counted 86,500 when with army on 8th and
  9th&#8212;five days ago. Returns show 23,500 killed, wounded, and missing.
  "Have you any more perfect knowledge of this than I 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%3A707' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 13 July 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:322-23.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President
  Lincoln, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, and Secretary of State William H.
  Seward travel by "carriage" to attend the funeral of the Secretary of War Edwin
  M. Stanton's "infant child" James. Welles recalled, "It was on this occasion
  and on this ride that [Lincoln] first mentioned...the subject of emancipating
  the slaves by proclamation...He dwelt earnestly on the gravity, importance, and
  delicacy of the movement, said he had given it much thought and had about come
  to the conclusion that it was a military necessity absolutely essential for the
  salvation of the Union." <bibl default='NO'>Gideon Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary of Gideon Welles</title> (Boston: Houghton
  Mifflin, 1911), vol. 1, 70; Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman,
  <title>Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War</title> (New
  York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), 175.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives James W. White,
  Robert H. McCurdy, and Frederick S. Winston, committee with invitation from
  patriotic bodies in New York to attend mass meeting. <bibl default='NO'>White to Lincoln, 14
  July 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-15'>Tuesday, July 15, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen. Browning (Ill.) visits Lincoln in morning and reports that he 
"looks weary, care-worn and troubled."
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Sen. Foot (Vt.) that he may return with objection bill 
for an act to suppress insurrection.
<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%3A715' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Solomon Foot</xref>, 15 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:326.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asks Congress to postpone adjournment at least one day.
<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%3A714' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Solomon Foot</xref>, 15 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:325; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A716' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Galusha A. Grow</xref>, 15 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:326.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Request granted.
<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%3A716' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Galusha A. Grow</xref>, 15 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:326; N.Y. Tribune, 16 July 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-16'>Wednesday, July 16, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln refers to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 letter from Ninian W. Edwards 
concerning raising troops.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:495.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-17'>Thursday, July 17, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 10 A.M. President visits Capitol and remains for convenience of 
Senate which adjourns at 2 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Informs Congress that Cornelius Vanderbilt has presented to U.S. 
steamer "Vanderbilt."
<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%3A721' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 17 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:331-32.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Committee of Synod of Reformed Presbyterian Church presents to 
President resolution on slavery.
<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%3A719' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks to Committee of Reformed Presbyterian Synod</xref>, 17 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:327.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln signs "An act to suppress insurrection, and to punish treason 
and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for 
other purposes," together with joint resolution explanatory of act, 
and draft of Message stating objections to bill before it becomes law.
<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%3A720' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 17 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:328-31; Washington Star, 17 July 1862; Stat. L., XII, 589.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves act amending act of February 28, 1795, and subsequent 
amendments, authorizing call-up of militia, and for other purposes.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 597.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Joint Congressional Committee notifies President of adjournment 
unless he has further communications.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Journal</title>, 880.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> leaves New York at 6 A.M. for Washington accompanied by 
Lt. S. Long and Thomas W. Sweney, assessor of internal revenue at 
Philadelphia, former colonel of 99th Pennsylvania Infantry and 
apparently friend of Tad.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 17 July 1862; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A1078' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas W. Sweney</xref>, 16 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:520-21.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-18'>Friday, July 18, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sens. Trumbull (Ill.) and James R. Doolittle (Wis.) interview Lincoln 
regarding appointments.
<bibl default='NO'>Trumbull to Lincoln, 18 July 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%3A722' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 18 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:332.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-19'>Saturday, July 19, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Delegation of Senators waits upon President and full cabinet and 
endorses policy of subsisting troops on enemy, using slaves 
indiscriminately, and pushing war forward without delay, negotiation, 
or parley.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 21 July 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Dix, invited by President to take charge of exchange of 
prisoners, arrives in evening and leaves following day.
<bibl default='NO'>Stanton to McClellan, 20 July 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-07-21'>Monday, July
  21, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At morning
  cabinet meeting President discusses proposed military action and slavery. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Salmon P. Chase, <title>Diary and Correspondence of Salmon P.
  Chase</title>, Compiled by Samuel H. Dodson, American Historical Association,
  Annual Report for the Year 1902, vol. 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing
  Office, 1903).</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln telegraphs Gen. McClellan: "This is
  Monday, I hope to be able to tell you on Thursday, what is to be done with
  Burnside." <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%3A730' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 21 July 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:334.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Orders that
  subjects of foreign powers "cannot be required to take an oath of allegiance to
  this Government, . . . All such obligations heretofore taken are, therefore,
  remitted and annulled." <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%3A731' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  Concerning Subjects of Foreign Powers</xref>, 21 July 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:334-35.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Directs
  Sec. Welles to investigate dismissal of Asst. Prof. William R. Hopkins from
  naval school, and to restore him to his place if he is loyal. <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%3A733' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 21 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:335-36.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-22'>Tuesday, July 22, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet in session. Discussion of previous day on slavery continues. 
President reads first draft of Emancipation Proclamation, to become 
effective January 1, 1863, and at Sec. Seward's suggestion agrees to 
withhold announcement until a military victory is obtained.
<bibl default='NO'>Salmon P. Chase, <title>Diary and Correspondence of Salmon P. Chase</title>, Compiled by Samuel H. Dodson, American Historical Association, Annual Report for the Year 1902, vol. 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903); Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 2:155; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A735' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Emancipation Proclamation&#8212;First Draft</xref>, [22 July 1862], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:336-38.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>

            <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 favors decisive blow to slavery as an all-important war 
measure over opposition to Lincoln and cabinet.
<bibl default='NO'>Flower, <title corresp='books_Flower'>Stanton</title>, 185.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
The efficiency of Gen. McClellan is talked over in cabinet.
<bibl default='NO'>Flower, <title corresp='books_Flower'>Stanton</title>, 172.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Chase consults with President and urges McClellan's removal.
<bibl default='NO'>Note, 22 July 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Marcy confers with President and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 before returning 
to James River camp.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 22 July 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
By order of President, 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 issues Executive Order providing: 1. 
Military commanders may seize and use real or personal property in 
rebel States for military purposes. 2. Military and naval commanders 
may employ as laborers persons of African descent, giving them 
reasonable wages for their labors. 3. Accounts of property of all 
kinds taken from owners shall be kept as basis for proper 
compensation.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 16 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President grants 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 "liberty to take the proper steps" to 
enroll militia of the several states and to draft men therefrom to 
fill old regiments.
<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%3A737' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 22 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:338-39.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-23'>Wednesday, July 23, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President, 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton,</person>
 and Gen. Halleck hold extended conference in 
War Dept. Gens. Pope and Burnside attend part of meeting.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 23 July 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Borrows from Library of Congress "Longfellow's Hiawatha, Shakespeare, 
IV., Neills Minnesota." [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of 
Hiawatha, Boston, 1855; Edward Duffield Neill, The History of 
Minnesota; from the Earliest French Explorers to the Present Time, 
Philadelphia, 1858.]
<bibl default='NO'>Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-07-24'>Thursday, July 24, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen. Browning (Ill.) at White House in morning studies maps with 
Lincoln, who points out importance of having Mississippi River 
opened. Sec. Seward comes in.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President interviews Bronson Murray of Connecticut (formerly of 
Illinois) relative to appointment.
<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%3A740' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James Dixon</xref>, 24 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:339.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Attends school program at Smithsonian Institution and hands out awards.
<bibl default='NO'>Allen C. Clark, <title>Abraham Lincoln in the National Capital</title> (Washington, DC: W. F. Roberts Co., 1925), 40-41.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives word of former President Martin Van Buren's death.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 24 July 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-07-25'>Friday, July
  25, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President at
  War Dept. in morning discusses opening of Mississippi River with
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton.</person> Sec. Chase drops in during
  meeting. <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person> recommends sending Gen. Ormsby
  M. Mitchel to clear the river. <bibl default='NO'>Warden, <title corresp='Warden'>Chase</title>, 441.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President proclaims "An
  act to suppress insurrection . . .," approved July 17, 1862. <bibl default='NO'>National
  Intelligencer, 26 July 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%3A744' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
  of the Act to Suppres Insurrection</xref>, 25 July 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:341-42.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Announces
  to group waiting outside office door: "It is a matter of no importance to me
  whether I spend my time with half a dozen of you or with the whole of you, but
  it is of importance to you. Therefore when you come in, don't stay long." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 25 July 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> As mark of respect for
  memory of former President Van Buren orders that Executive Mansion and
  departments, except War and Navy, be placed in mourning, and that business be
  suspended during tomorrow. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 26 July 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%3A743' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  for Observance of Death of Martin Van Buren</xref>, 25 July 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:340-41.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Discusses
  with Mitchel plans for opening Mississippi. <bibl default='NO'>Warden,
  <title corresp='Warden'>Chase</title>, 441.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In evening at
  Soldiers' Home has conversation with Sen. Browning (Ill.) on public affairs. 
  <bibl default='NO'