<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-01'>Friday, August 1, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meeting on current problems of government.
<bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 103.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Col. Henry C. Deming of Connecticut delivers to Lincoln swords sent 
from Louisiana by Gen. Butler.
<bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 2:151.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President, in conference with gentleman from Ohio, expresses 
astonishment at speech of Cong. (former Gov.) Charles A. Wickliffe 
(Ky.)
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 2 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In compliance with recent act of Congress, pardons approximately 90 
soldiers imprisoned by courtmartial.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 2 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-08-02'>Saturday, August 2, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President in regular cabinet
  meeting reviews problems facing administration, particularly emancipation. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Rice, 521-22.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>President Lincoln writes to the Secretary of
  the Navy Gideon Welles regarding "Lietuenant Commanding James W. A. Nicholson,
  now commanding the [ship] Isaac Smith." Lincoln notes, "[Nicholson] wishes to
  be married, and from evidence now before me, I believe there is a young lady
  who sympathizes with him in that wish." Lincoln writes, "Under these
  circumstances, please allow him the requisite leave of absence, if the public
  service can safely endure it." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>abraham lincoln to gideon
  welles</xref>, 2 August 1862, <title>CW</title>, 10:145.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-03'>Sunday, August 3, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In cabinet meeting Sec. Chase urges policy of: 1. assuring freedom to 
Negroes in seceded states on condition of loyalty; 2. organizing best 
of them into military companies; 3. providing for cultivation of 
plantations by remaining ones.
<bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 105-6.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-08-04'>Monday, August 4, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Delegation of Western men, including two
  congressmen, calls upon President to offer two Negro regiments from Indiana.
  President agrees to use men as laborers, but will not make them soldiers. 
  <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%3A776' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  to Deputation of Western Gentlemen</xref>, 4 August 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:356-57; Washington Star, 5 August
  1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Orders draft of 300,000 militia to serve for nine months.
  <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 5 August 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President Lincoln writes to
  French author Ag&#233;nor-Etienne de Gasparin, who wrote a book about
  America's Civil War, and who had written to Lincoln regarding the North's troop
  strength. Lincoln confides that he may have to institute "a draft." He explains
  that many men are "pay[ing] and send[ing] substitutes" rather than enlisting
  themselves. Lincoln adds, "I can only say that I have acted upon my best
  convictions without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God, I shall
  continue to do so." <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%3A775' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ag&#233;nor-Etienne de Gasparin</xref>, 4 August 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:355-56; Mary L. Booth, translator,
  <title>The Uprising of a Great People, The United States in 1861</title>, 3rd
  ed., (New York: Charles Scribner, 1861); Agenor-Etienne Gasparin to Abraham
  Lincoln, 18 July 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-05'>Tuesday, August 5, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 10 A.M. President, Sec. Seward, and Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis begin 
inspection of forts and camps on south side of Potomac between Chain 
Bridge and Long Bridge.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 5 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Theodore S. Fay, former minister to Switzerland, tells Lincoln Union 
cause is suffering "on account of a poorly defined policy."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 6 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President receives July salary warrant for $2,083.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-08-06'>Wednesday, August 6,
  1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p>In the afternoon,
  President Lincoln speaks to an "immense crowd" gathered "at the east front of
  the Capitol [building]." Lincoln attempts to dispel rumors that General George
  McClellan and the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton are feuding. Lincoln states,
  "McClellan's attitude is such that, in the very selfishness of his nature, he
  cannot but wish to be successful...and [Stanton] is in precisely the same
  situation." He adds, "If [McClellan]...cannot be successful, not only
  [Stanton], but myself for the time being the master of them both, cannot be but
  failures." <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%3A780' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Address
  to Union Meeting at Washington</xref>, 6 August 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:358-59; <title>The New York
  Times</title> (NY), 7 August 1862, 1:4-6.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Consults with
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person> , Gen. Halleck, and governors on problem
  of drafting army replacements. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 7 August 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> James C. Conkling of Illinois is dinner guest. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:497.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-07'>Thursday, August 7, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President, Secs. Seward and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
, Capt. John A. Dahlgren, and 
others spend two hours at Navy Yard in afternoon observing 
experiments with "Rafael" repeater cannon. Later Dahlgren takes party 
on board steamboat to cool off and rest.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 8 August 1862; Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> orders 23 book titles and 1 box from T. J. Crowen, 
Publisher, Bookseller, and Stationer, 699 Broadway, New York: "1 set 
Waverly $16," "1 set Cooper $34," "1 set Shakespeare $12," "1 
Spencers Poem $8," "1 Cor. Am. Revolution $15," "1 Sigourney Poems 
$5," "1 Land &amp; Book $3.25," "1 Field Book $10," "1 Kanes 
Expeditions $10," "1 Box $0.75," "1 Hist. of New York $4.50," "1 
Indian Tales $2.25," "1 Hist. of Revolution $6," "1 Hist. of 
Washington $9," "1 Hist. of England $5," "1 Hist. of Voyages $2.25," 
"2 Albums $9," "1 Portrait Gallery $16," "1 Travels $2.25," "1 Hist. 
of Creation $2.50," "1 Hist. of Birds $0.63," "1 Hist. of Beasts 
$0.75," "1 Hist. of Art $0.50," "1 Text Book $0.37." For the last 14 
items Lincoln pays $61; the remainder, totalling $52, is paid from 
annual appropriation of $250 for books for White House, administered 
by Commissioner French.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 180-81.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-08'>Friday, August 8, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meeting&#8212;"nothing proposed and nothing done of any moment."
<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>
President directs secretary of war to issue order for arrest of 
persons engaged in discouraging enlistments.
<bibl default='NO'>Memorandum, 8 August 1862, Edwin M. Stanton Papers, Library of Congress, Washington DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Dixon (Conn.) confers with Lincoln about Connecticut politics.
<bibl default='NO'>Dixon to Lincoln, 11 August 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln assures Baron de Stoeckl that although enlistments are slow, 
two or three million men will respond in case of necessity.
<bibl default='NO'>Albert A. Woldman, <title>Lincoln and the Russians</title> (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1952), 196.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends congratulations to Queen Victoria upon marriage of daughter.
<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%3A791' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Queen Victoria</xref>, 8 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:363.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening at Soldiers' Home Mrs. Heintzelman discusses with Lincoln 
her husband's opposition to withdrawal of Army of Potomac from 
peninsula.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-08-09'>Saturday, August 9, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln thanks son of Henry Clay
  for snuffbox that belonged to "your great and patriotic 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%3A792' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John M. Clay</xref>, 9 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:363-64.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Suggests to
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> that "Rafael Repeater" be brought
  to attention of Ordnance Bureau. <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%3A796' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 9 August 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:365.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>President
  Lincoln writes to the Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles regarding an age
  requirement affecting the appointment of William F. Hall. Lincoln writes, "It
  is said to be a mistake of a clerk that Midshipmen, when appointed must be
  between the ages of fourteen and <uLine>seventeen</uLine>, where-as Congress
  actually voted "between fourteen and eighteen." Lincoln approves Hall's
  appointment "with the understanding that I may require him to resign if
  Congress, at the next session does not correct this mistake." <bibl default='NO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Gideon Welles, 9 August 1862, Private Collection.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-10'>Sunday, August 10, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In conference with President, Judge Wright offers to lead Negro 
regiments into battle.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 11 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-11'>Monday, August 11, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President recognizes F. Kuhne as consul of Principality of 
Reuss-Greitz at New York.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 13 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Judge Christian Roselius, Louisiana Unionist, consults with 
President, Secs. Seward and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 and Postmaster Gen. Blair 
regarding conditions in Louisiana and conduct of Gen. John S. Phelps.
<bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 2:207.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
: "Gov. Morton is one of our best Governors, 
but I do not think he would be the best Military commander" for 
Kentucky.
<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%3A803' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 11 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:367.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-12'>Tuesday, August 12, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets; "nothing of special interest."
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Judge David Noggle of Wisconsin talks to Lincoln regarding 
courtmartial of son, Lt. Charles L. Noggle.
<bibl default='NO'>Noggle to Lincoln, 13 August 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews Sydney H. Gay, editor of New York "Tribune," and 
remarks: "I regard Gen. Banks as one of the best men in the Army. He 
makes me no trouble."
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 13 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> receives from Boston merchant donation of $1,000 for 
relief work in military hospitals.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 13 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln informs Gen. Cassius M. Clay: "I shall be quite willing, and 
even gratified, to again send you to Russia," if present minister, 
Simon Cameron, resigns with "full notice of my intention."
<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%3A806' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Cassius M. Clay</xref>, 12 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:368.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-13'>Wednesday, August 13, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Delegation from Delaware, headed by Cong. George P. Fisher (Del.) 
discusses with President effects of draft in state, and military 
situation in general.
<bibl default='NO'>Fisher to Lincoln, 14 August 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Cassius M. Clay "struts around" White House, anxious to go back to Russia.
<bibl default='NO'>Albert A. Woldman, <title>Lincoln and the Russians</title> (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1952), 120.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-08-14'>Thursday, August 14,
  1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President Lincoln
  meets with a "Committee of colored men," to whom he proposes a program by which
  blacks living in America would voluntarily relocate to a Central American
  country. Lincoln explains, "You and we are different races. We have between us
  a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it
  is right or wrong I need not discuss, but, this physical difference is a great
  disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them
  by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word we suffer
  on each side." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>New York Daily Tribune</title> (NY), 15 August
  1862, 1:4-5; <title>Evening Star</title> (Washington, DC), 15 August 1862,
  2:3-4;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A812' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Address
  on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes</xref>, 14 August 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:370-75.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs
  officer in charge of Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Ohio: "It is believed
  that a Dr. J. J. Williams is a prisoner in your charge, and if so, tell him his
  wife is here, and allow him to Telegraph to her." <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%3A816' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Henry M. Lazella</xref>, 14 August 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:376.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-08-15'>Friday, August 15, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Sec. Welles meets with President at 9 A.M. to
  discuss personnel. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President sends Richard
  M. Blatchford, member of committee of three appointed by Lincoln to superintend
  disbursement of public monies appropriated to raise troops for Union, to Rome
  as minister resident. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 15 August 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Calls Secs. Chase and Welles together and settles Connecticut appointments.
  <bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 112.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-08-16'>Saturday, August 16,
  1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President meets
  with Sec. Welles for two hours to select candidates for Naval Academy. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>President Lincoln writes to Hiram P. Barney, the Collector of the Port of
  New York City, and makes a request on behalf of <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>First
  Lady Mary Lincoln</person>. Lincoln writes, "Mrs. L. has $1000.00 for the
  benefit of the hospitals; and she will be obliged, and send the pay, if you
  will be so good as to select and send her two hundred dollars worth of good
  lemmons, and one hundred dollars worth of good oranges." <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%3A822' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Hiram P. Barney</xref>, 16 August 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:377-78.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-18'>Monday, August 18, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln invites 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Secretary of War</person>
 and Gen. Halleck to dinner in honor 
of Gens. George A. McCall and Michael Corcoran, and Cols. Orlando B. 
Willcox and Alfred M. Wood, recently exchanged prisoners.
<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%3A828' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Invitation to Dinner</xref>, 18 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:380-81; Memorandum by Hay, 18 August 1862, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with J. R. Gilmore and former Sen. Walker (Miss.).
<bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 816; James R. Gilmore, <title>Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War</title> (Boston: Page, 1898), 81-83.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews again E. M. Thomas, chairman of delegation of Negro people 
who were at White House on August 14, 1862.
<bibl default='NO'>Van Vleet to Lincoln, 17 August 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Gen. Henry W. Benham regarding his dismissal by Gen. 
Hunter for alleged violation of orders in attack on Secessionville, 
S.C.
<bibl default='NO'>Benham to Lincoln, 19 August 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Decides Michigan appointments with Sen. Chandler (Mich.) and Gov. 
Austin Blair (Mich.).
<bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 114.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-19'>Tuesday, August 19, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At early hour President visits camps of two regiments of Pennsylvania 
volunteers.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 19 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meeting. President uneasy about Gen. Pope and troop 
distribution in Army of Virginia. Sends to War Dept. for telegrams.
<bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 115.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Secs. Seward and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 on conditions in Louisiana as 
reported by former Sen. Johnson (Md.).
<bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 2:250-55.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Studies B. &amp; O. Railroad reports on troop movements towards Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>Koontz to Lincoln, 20 August 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cong. John B. Steele (N.Y.) calls on Lincoln to discuss patronage.
<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%3A833' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of William Masten</xref>, 19 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:383.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President summons Capt. Dahlgren to White House for information on 
new gunpowder and army matters relating to Gens. Pope and McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Horace Greeley's anti-slavery editorial, "The Prayer of Twenty 
Millions," reaches Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>George W. Julian, <title>Political Recollections 1840-1872</title> (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, 1884), 220-22.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening President consults with A. W. Thompson on colonization of Negroes.
<bibl default='NO'>Thompson to Lincoln, 19 August 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Reads "Address to Maryland" by Anna E. Carroll and writes her: "It is 
just what is needed now and you were the one to do 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%3A831' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Anna E. Carroll</xref>, 19 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:381-82.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Brother of <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, Col. Alexander H. Todd, dies of wound 
received in Battle of Baton Rouge.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 20 August 1862.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-08-20'>Wednesday, August 20, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Sen. Harris (N.Y.) reviews with President list of
  appointments proposed to Sec. Chase. <bibl default='NO'>Harris to Lincoln, 21 August 1862,
  Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sec. Welles at White House for advice on
  personnel. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Former Lt. Gov. Koerner (Ill.), new minister to Spain, interviews
  President preparatory to assuming duties. <bibl default='NO'>T. J. McCormack, ed.,
  <title>Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896</title>, 2 vols. (Cedar Rapids,
  IA: The Torch Press, 1909), 2:229.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President discusses
  colonizing Negroes on Chiriqui land tract with M. T. Goswell of Baltimore,
  agent for Chiriqui Real Estate Company. <bibl default='NO'>Goswell to Lincoln, 16 August
  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='1862-08-21'>Thursday, August 21, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President authorizes Gov. Stanly (N.C.) to order election of 
representatives in Congress for 1st and 2nd districts.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 22 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Announces names of seven candidates selected for admission to Naval Academy.
<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%3A847' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 21 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:387-88.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Refuses request of Mrs. Margaret Preston, probably to go through 
Union lines to see husband Gen. William C. Preston (CSA), but 
authorizes Gen. Jeremiah T. Boyle and James Guthrie, former secretary 
of treasury, to grant request at their discretion.
<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%3A843' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Margaret Preston</xref>, 21 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:386.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-22'>Friday, August 22, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Archbishop Hughes attended by Sec. Seward pays a morning visit to White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 23 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln answers Horace Greeley's editorial, "The Prayer of Twenty 
Millions": "My paramount object in this struggle <uLine>is</uLine> to 
save the Union, and is <uLine>not</uLine> either to save or to 
destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing 
<uLine>any</uLine> slave I would do it, and if I could save it by 
freeing <uLine>all</uLine> the slaves I would do 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%3A848' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley</xref>, 22 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:388-89; National Intelligencer, 23 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln informs Sec. Welles that a record is kept of recruits 
answering late call. Over 18,000 reached Washington in one week.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-23'>Saturday, August 23, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Mrs. Gabriel R. Paul urges Lincoln to promote her husband to 
brigadier general. "She is a saucy woman and I am afraid she will 
keep tormenting till I may have to do 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%3A853' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Gabriel R. Paul</xref>, 23 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:390-91.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Stone applies to President for explanation of his arrest.
<bibl default='NO'>Committee on Conduct of War, <title corresp='books_Congress2'>Report</title> (1863), 2:500.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-24'>Sunday, August 24, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Dr. Orestes A. Brownson, editor of "Brownson's Review," discusses 
questions of emancipation and colonization with President. Lincoln 
selects Sen. Pomeroy (Kans.) for commissioner of African colonization.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 25 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-25'>Monday, August 25, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Col. George Crook representing Irish regiment 
being organized in Pennsylvania.
<bibl default='NO'>Stuart to Lincoln, 24 August 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Addresses two letters of congratulation to Queen Isabel II of Spain 
on births in family.
<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%3A858' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isabel II</xref>, 25 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:392; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A859' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isabel II</xref>, 25 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:393.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-26'>Tuesday, August 26, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At cabinet meeting "general feeling over public affairs was decidedly 
more hopeful than for some time past."
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 28 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln makes several trips to telegraph office during day, and after 
supper goes prepared to stay all night for latest news from Gen. Pope 
at front and Gen. McClellan at Alexandria, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 118.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Personally pays $124.25 of White House bills for books amounting to $250.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 181; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A862' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin B. French</xref>, 26 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:394.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-08-27'>Wednesday, August 27, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Congs. Lovejoy (Ill.) and Frederick A. Conkling
  (N.Y.) confer with Lincoln on patronage. <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%3A870' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum:
  Appointment of Marshall B. Blake</xref>, 27 August 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:396;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A871' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum:
  Appointment of John B. Colton</xref>, 27 August 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:396.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President
  declares intention to enforce recent acts of Congress relative to confiscation
  and emancipation. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 27 August 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Exchanges communications with military officers on active duty at Falmouth,
  Manassas, and Alexandria, 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%3A866' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ambrose E. Burnside</xref>, 27 August 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:395;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A867' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Herman Haupt</xref>, 27 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:395;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A868' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Herman Haupt</xref>, 27 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:395;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A869' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 27 August 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:396.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <quote> 
            <p>
  [Battle of Second Manassas (Bull Run) begins. On August 30, 1862, General
  Pope's Army of Virginia is routed.] </p> 
         </quote>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-28'>Thursday, August 28, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln summons Secs. Chase and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 to White House for early 
morning conference.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 30 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Chase calls on President in morning to get furlough for friend.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 455.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Ministers of Central American governments protest colonization of 
Negroes on Isthmus of Chiriqui.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 29 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Delegation submits proposition to Lincoln to divide 4th District, New 
York City.
<bibl default='NO'>White to Chase, 29 August 1862, Salmon P. Chase Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln confers with Gen. Halleck on troop movements in Virginia.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 30 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-08-29'>Friday, August 29, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and cabinet discuss Chiriqui colonization project and 
decide to abandon it.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 2 September 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln maintains close contact with military developments in 
vicinity of Manassas, 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%3A878' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ambrose E. Burnside</xref>, 29 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:398-99; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A879' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Herman Haupt</xref>, 29 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:399; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A880' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 29 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:399.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> visits soldiers in Odd Fellows' Hall Hospital.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 29 August 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-08-30'>Saturday, August 30,
  1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln continues
  to collect latest news about fighting in neighborhood of Bull Run. <bibl default='NO'>David
  H. Bates, <title>Lincoln Stories Told by him in the Military Office in the War
  Department during the Civil War</title> (New York: Rudge, 1926), 34;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A883' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks</xref>, 30 August 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:400;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A885' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Herman Haupt</xref>, 30 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:400-1;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A886' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Herman Haupt</xref>, 30 August 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:401.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Reveals
  peculiarities of Gen. Halleck to John Hay while riding to White House from
  Soldiers' Home. <bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and
  Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Dismisses 12 officers of 71st Ohio Regiment who
  advised Col. Rodney Mason to surrender Clarksville, Tenn. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune,
  30 August 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Considers at length indictment of Gen.
  McClellan prepared by <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> and signed by
  Secs. Chase and Smith and Atty. Gen. Bates. Decides not to relieve McClellan of
  command under accusations. <bibl default='NO'>Flower, <title corresp='books_Flower'>Stanton</title>, 176-79.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "The President
  is very outspoken in regard to McClellan's present conduct. He said it really
  seemed to him that McClellan wanted Pope defeated." <bibl default='NO'>Hay,
  <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-08-31'>Sunday, August 31, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p>President Lincoln is staying at
  his cottage at the Soldier's Home, outside of Washington, D.C. At approximately
  8 a.m., he confers with his secretary John Hay about the ongoing Second Battle
  of Bull Run. Hay recalled that Lincoln remarked, "'Well John we are whipped
  again, I am afraid. The enemy reinforced on [General John] Pope and drove back
  his left wing and he has retired to Centerville [Virginia] where he says he
  will be able to hold his men. I dont like that expression. I dont like to hear
  him admit that his men need holding.'" <bibl default='NO'>Michael Burlingame and John R.
  Turner Ettlinger, eds., <title>Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil
  War Diary of John Hay</title> (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press,
  1997), 36-38; John Pope to Henry W. Halleck, 30 August 1862, 9:45 p.m.,
  <title>The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the
  Union and Confederate Armies</title> (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing
  Office, 1885; reprint, Gettysburg, PA: National Historical Society, 1972),
  volume 12, part 2: 78-79.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>Sunday morning Cabinet meets to discuss
  outcome of Second Manassas (Bull Run). <bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 5 September
  1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sec. Chase interviews President regarding appointments. 
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title>
  456.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>