<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-09-01'>Monday, September 1, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President grants audience requested by Sec. Chase
  to Judge Hugh L. Bond of Baltimore and Henry H. Goldsborough, president,
  Maryland 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%3A889' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, [1 September 1862],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:402.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Kansas
  delegation, including Abel C. Wilder, Kansas political figure, and Sen. Lane
  (Kans.), interviews Lincoln relative to making Kansas separate department. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Memorandum, 1 September 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham
  Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  calls Gen. McClellan to White House and urges him to use his influence to
  correct unkind feeling of Army of Potomac toward Gen. Pope. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 1, XII, pt. 2,
  1018.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President and McClellan confer with Gen. Halleck at his
  headquarters until after dark. They write General Orders No. 122 placing
  McClellan in command of troops around Washington. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 1
  September 1862; <title>Philadelphia News</title>, 5 September 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Henry Stoddard, treasury clerk and brother of W. O. Stoddard, who helped
  with wounded after Second Manassas (Bull Run), describes what he saw and heard
  to President. <bibl default='NO'>William O. Stoddard, <title>Lincoln's Third Secretary: The
  Memoirs of William O. Stoddard</title>, ed. by William O. Stoddard, Jr. (New
  York: Exposition Press, 1955), 153-56.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-02'>Tuesday, September 2, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and Gen. Halleck call at Gen. McClellan's house about 7 
A.M. President asks McClellan to take command of troops falling back 
upon Washington and defend city.
<bibl default='NO'>McClellan, <title corresp='books_McClellan'>War for Union</title>, 535.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"By direction of the President Major General McClellan will have 
command of the fortifications of Washington, and of all the troops 
for the defence of the Capital."
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 3 September 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets at noon. President announces his decision placing 
McClellan in command of troops to defend Capital. Secs. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 and 
Chase express heated disapproval. Lincoln dissolves opposition by 4 
P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; Gideon Welles, <title>Lincoln and Seward: Remarks upon the Memorial Address of Chas. Francis Adams, on the Late Wm. H. Seward</title> (New York: Sheldon, 1874), 194-97.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-03'>Wednesday, September 3, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President discusses with Gen. Pope recent changes in military command.
<bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 120.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders Gen. Halleck to organize immediately an army for active 
operations from all material within his control independent of forces 
needed for defense of Washington and to put this army in field.
<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%3A894' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 3 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:404.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At Soldiers' Home confers from 9 P.M. until midnight with Sec. 
Seward, just returned from New York.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 4 September 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Deposits April salary warrant for $2,083.33 in Riggs Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-04'>Thursday, September 4, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Pope reads his official report of recent Virginia campaign to 
President in presence of Sec. Welles.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Before noon Lincoln and Pope consult with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 at War Dept.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets and discusses outlook under Gen. McClellan.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-05'>Friday, September 5, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and John Hay visit War Dept. telegraph office before breakfast.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President presents Gen. Pope's report of his Virginia campaign to 
members of cabinet, who decide against publication.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 461-62.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. McClellan orders guard established at President's residence on 
grounds of Soldiers' Home.
<bibl default='NO'>McClellan to Lincoln, 5 September 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President receives August salary warrant for $2,083.34.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-09-06'>Saturday, September 6, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Judge James Hughes of Indiana, member of U.S. Court
  of Claims, calls on Lincoln on behalf of Maj. John Love, inspector general of
  Indiana Volunteers. <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%3A904' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum:
  Appointment of John Love</xref>, 6 September 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:407-8.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gen.
  Cassius M. Clay, one-time U.S. minister to Russia, obtains President's consent
  to return there if Simon Cameron quits post. <bibl default='NO'>Clay to Cameron, 6 September
  1862, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President reviews military affairs in West and in Kentucky in particular
  with committee from conference of leading Kentuckians. <bibl default='NO'>Committee to
  Lincoln, 6 September 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sen. Lane (Kans.)
  interviews Lincoln at White House. <bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 8 September
  1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President calls on Sec. Chase at Treasury Dept. to
  consult about case of Gen. McDowell. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official
  Records&#8212;Armies</title> 463.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-07'>Sunday, September 7, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Heintzelman finds Lincoln at Gen. McClellan's headquarters in 
morning before McClellan awakes.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles walks to White House with Sec. Chase. They discuss 
military matters with Lincoln; Chase suggests that President issue 
general order commending Gen. Pope's army.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 464.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-08'>Monday, September 8, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President at Navy Dept., 17th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. NW., inquires 
about destruction of rebel steamer on Savannah River and discusses 
army matters involving Gens. McClellan and Pope.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Chase visits War Dept. and discovers President in conversation 
with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 and Gen. Wadsworth.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 466.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-09'>Tuesday, September 9, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sec. Chase at White House for cabinet meeting which results in 
general conversation about military department beyond Mississippi 
River.
<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 convinces group of Baltimoreans that government defense of 
their city is adequate.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 10 September 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Visits Gen. Halleck's office and informs him that Gen. McClellan has 
95,000 men.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, 10 September 1862, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-10'>Wednesday, September 10, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Three members of New York City's National War Committee, also 
representing New England governors, wait upon President and demand 
dismissal of Sec. Seward and Postmaster Gen. Blair.
<bibl default='NO'>William B. Hesseltine, "Lincoln's War Governors," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 4 (December 1946):197-98.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits $600 in Springfield Marine Bank, payment on A. J. Van 
Deren note.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-11'>Thursday, September 11, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President at War Dept. discusses with Gen. Halleck, Col. John A. 
Wright, and Secs. Chase and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 question of Gov. Curtin (Pa.) 
calling all able-bodied men into army.
<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>
Approves provisional contract between A. W. Thompson for Chiriqui 
Improvement Company and Sec. Smith for U.S. providing for 
colonization by Negroes of land in Chiriqui.
<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%3A920' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Approval of Contract with Ambrose W. Thompson</xref>, 11 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:414.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gen. McClellan near Rockville, Md.: "If [Fitz John] 
Porter, Heintzelman, and Sigel were sent you, it would sweep 
everything from the other side of the river; . . . Porter reports 
himself twenty one thousand strong, . . . He is ordered to-night to 
join you as quick as possible. I am for sending you all that can be 
spared."
<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%3A923' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 11 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:415.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 extract from letter from August Belmont suggesting 
that Halleck be made secretary of war and McClellan be appointed 
commander-in-chief of military forces in East.
<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%3A925' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 11 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:416.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-09-12'>Friday, September 12, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> 4 A.M. Sleepless President wires McClellan: "How
  does it look now?" <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%3A929' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 12 September 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:418.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> 9 A.M. John
  Ross, chief of Cherokee Nation, confers with President about treaty relations. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Ross to Lincoln, 16 September 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of
  Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Brief cabinet meeting on military affairs. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sec. Chase at
  White House confers with President about diplomatic post at St. Petersburg. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Chase to Cameron, 12 September 1862, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President especially interested in
  troop movement in Maryland. Writes Gen. McClellan: "Receiving nothing from
  Harper's Ferry or Martinsburg to-day, and positive information from Wheeling
  that the line is cut, corroborates the idea that the enemy is recrossing the
  Potomac. Please do not let him get off without being hurt." <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%3A930' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 12 September 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:418.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Replies to
  statement by Gen. Boyle who reports withdrawing of troops from Louisville, Ky.,
  is causing panic, by asking: "Where is the enemy which you dread in Louisville?
  How near to you?" Gen. Horatio G. Wright is responsible for Louisville and "for
  us here, to control him there on the ground would be a Babel of confusion." 
  <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%3A926' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Jeremiah T. Boyle</xref>, 12 September 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:416-17.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Answers
  Gov. Curtin (Pa.) "Your despatch asking for eighty thousand disciplined troops
  to be sent to Pennsylvania is received. Please consider. We have not to exceed
  eighty thousand disciplined troops, properly so called, this side of the
  mountains, . . . The best possible security for Pennsylvania is putting the
  strongest force possible into the enemies rear." <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%3A927' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Andrew G. Curtin</xref>, 12 September 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:417.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes Mayor
  Henry (Philadelphia): "Please do not be offended when I assure you that, in my
  confident belief, Philadelphia is in no danger. . . . and could not be reached
  by the rebel Army in ten days, if no hinderance was interposed." <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%3A928' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Alexander Henry</xref>, 12 September 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:417-18.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-13'>Saturday, September 13, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sprains wrist checking his run-away horse during morning 
ride from Soldiers' Home to White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 13 September 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Replies to delegation presenting memorial in favor of national 
emancipation adopted by public meeting of Christians in Chicago: "It 
is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter. 
<uLine>And if I can learn what it is I will do it</uLine>! . . . I 
view the matter as a practical war measure, to be decided upon 
according to the advantages or disadvantages it may offer to the 
suppression of the rebellion."
<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%3A933' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Emancipation Memorial Presented by Chicago Christian of All Denominations</xref>, 13 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:419-25.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-14'>Sunday, September 14, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Cassius M. Clay takes to White House order assigning him to duty 
at New Orleans; President issues counter order: "You need not proceed 
to New Orleans until you hear from me again."
<bibl default='NO'>Cassius M. Clay, <title>The Life of Cassius Marcellus Clay.  Memoirs, Writings, and Speeches, Showing his Conduct in the Overthrow of American slavery, the Salvation of the Union, and the Restoration of the Autonomy of the States</title>, 2 vols. (Cincinnati: J. F. Brennan, 1886), 1:315; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A934' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Cassius M. Clay</xref>, 14 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:425.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-09-15'>Monday, September 15, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Gen. Sigel discusses his military position with
  President and complains that Gen. Heintzelman has higher command. <bibl default='NO'>Halleck
  to Sigel, 16 September 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sec. Chase
  accompanies Mr. Case (spiritualism and war prophecies) to see President.
  Postmaster Gen. Blair is in conference with Lincoln. <bibl default='NO'>Donald,
  <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 142-43.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President declines offer of three Negro regiments raised in Rhode Island and
  Massachusetts. <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 16 September 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes J.
  K. Dubois: "I now consider it safe to say that Gen. McClellan has gained a
  great victory over the great rebel army in Maryland between Fredericktown and
  Hagerstown. He is now pursuing the flying foe." <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%3A936' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Jesse K. Dubois</xref>, 15 September 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:425-26.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> To
  McClellan: "Your despatches [relative to battles of South Mountain and
  Crampton's Gap] of to-day received. God bless you, and all with you. Destroy
  the rebel army, if possible." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A937' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 15 September 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:426.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-16'>Tuesday, September 16, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives deputation of Friends with petition to exempt the 
Society from draft. Sec. Chase accompanies group and asks Lincoln to 
appoint Rev. Tolford as chaplain at Camp Chase near Columbus, Ohio.
<bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 146; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 478-79.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gov. Curtin (Pa.) at 12 M.: "What do you hear from Gen. 
McClellan's army? We have nothing from him to-day." Telegraphs at 
2:25 P.M.: "Since telegraphing you, despatch came from Gen. 
McClellan, dated 7 o'clock this morning. Nothing of importance 
happened with him yesterday. This morning he was up with the enemy at 
Sharpsburg, and was waiting for heavy fog to rise."
<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%3A941' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew G. Curtin</xref>, 16 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:427; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A942' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew G. Curtin</xref>, 16 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:427-28.</bibl>
         </p>
         <quote>
            <p>
[Battle of Antietam ends General Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland.]
</p>
         </quote>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-17'>Wednesday, September 17, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President at Gen. Halleck's office in conference with former Sen. 
Johnson (Md.) and army captain from Harper's Ferry, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 147.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At Soldiers' Home completes second draft of preliminary Emancipation 
Proclamation.
<bibl default='NO'>Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 2:159.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Pays $12.62, closing harness account.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Lutz Account Book</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-18'>Thursday, September 18, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President appoints Jacob Frankel an Army chaplain&#8212;first 
American Rabbi to hold such office.
<bibl default='NO'>Bertram W. Korn, <title>American Jewry and the Civil War</title> (Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951), 77.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews J. H. Clay Mudd of Washington regarding promotion for Lt. 
Egbert Thompson (USN).
<bibl default='NO'>Mudd to Lincoln, 22 September 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='1862-09-19'>Friday, September 19, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meeting on topic of military successes.
<bibl default='NO'>Blair to McClellan, 19 September 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Chase calls on President and hands him letters of former Cong. 
Robert Dale Owen (Ind.), abolitionist, social reformer, and diplomat, 
on subject of emancipation.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 481.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President orders secretary of interior to turn over to secretary of 
war U.S. Penitentiary in District of Columbia for use as arsenal.
<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%3A947' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Caleb B. Smith</xref>, 19 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:429-30.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-20'>Saturday, September 20, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President carefully prepares text of preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Urges 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to send paroled prisoners to seat of Indian 
difficulties "with all possible despatch."
<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%3A953' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 20 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:432.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-21'>Sunday, September 21, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President too busy at White House to receive visitor, Dr. S. W. 
Forsha, anxious to treat wounded soldiers with his "Balm."
<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); <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A968' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William A. Hammond</xref>, 29 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:444-45.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-09-22'>Monday, September 22, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At special cabinet meeting with all members present
  Lincoln reads chapter, "High Handed Outrage at Utica," from book by "Artemus
  Ward" (Charles Farrar Browne), before reading preliminary Emancipation
  Proclamation and announcing his decision to issue it. Early opposition of Secs.
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person> and Chase is overcome. Proclamation
  provides: That on the first day of January 1863 all persons held as slaves
  within any state in rebellion against U.S. shall be forever free. President
  will designate states in rebellion on January 1, 1862. Army and navy personnel
  are prohibited by Act of March 13, 1862, from returning fugitive slaves. The
  act to suppress insurrection, approved July 17, 1862, provides that: 1. Escaped
  slaves and those in territory occupied by forces of U.S. shall be free. 2.
  Run-away slaves will not be delivered up except for crime or claim of lawful
  owner under oath that he has not borne arms against government. Executive will
  recommend that loyal citizens be compensated for all losses by acts of U.S.,
  including loss of slaves. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; 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>, 2:159;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A955' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Preliminary
  Emancipation Proclamation</xref>, 22 September 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:433-36.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Detective
  A. Pinkerton pays Lincoln personal visit. <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1281.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> 9
  P.M. Band serenades President at White House. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes
  testimonial: "Dr. [Isachar] Zacharie has operated on my feet with great
  success, and considerable addition to my comfort." <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%3A956' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Testimonial
  for Isachar Zacharie</xref>, 22 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:436.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New' TEIform='div2'> 
  <dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1862-09-23' TEIform='date'>Tuesday,
  September 23, 1862.</date> <place teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>.</dateline> <p TEIform='p'>Lincoln writes to an unknown recipient
  regarding reimbursement for Mr. Garton, who "is represented to me by good
  authority to have done valuable service for the Government, and to have made
  many sacrifices. I think his account is a very reasonable one and ought to be
  paid. Let no merely technical objection stand in the way of the payment." 
  <bibl>Abraham Lincoln to Unknown, 23 September 1862, IHi; <title>CW</title>,
  8:417.</bibl></p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-24'>Wednesday, September 24, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Special cabinet meeting considers expediency of treaties regarding 
voluntary colonization of Negroes and proper answer to treaty 
complaints of Cherokees.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 490-91.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President proclaims that "all Rebels and Insurgents" and their 
abettors guilty of any disloyal practice are subject to martial law, 
and all such persons arrested are deprived of benefits of writ of 
habeas corpus.
<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%3A957' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus</xref>, 24 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:436-37.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Prepares letter of introduction for Hon. Edward Everett, orator, 
statesman, and former senator from Massachusetts. "While I commend 
him to the consideration of those, whom he may meet, I am quite 
conscious that he could better introduce me than I him, in Europe."
<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%3A959' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Whom It May Concern</xref>, 24 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:437-38.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Large crowd with band and speeches serenades President in honor of 
Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln says: "What I did, I did after 
very full deliberation, and under a very heavy and solemn sense of 
responsibility. I can only trust in God I have made no mistake."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 24 September 1862; Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 3:12; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A960' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Serenade in Honor of Emancipation Proclamation</xref>, 24 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:438-39.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-25'>Thursday, September 25, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President receives Edward
  Everett at White House and hands him paper to be returned. Everett returns copy
  of paper same day in letter. <bibl default='NO'>Everett to Lincoln, 25 September 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%3A959' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Whom It May Concern</xref>, 24 September 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:437-38.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Dr.
  Zacharie treats President for sprains received on September 13, 1862. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 26 September 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Committee,
  including Henry Ward Beecher, from General Association of Congregational
  Churches of New York waits upon President to present resolutions relating to
  Emancipation Proclamation. <bibl default='NO'>Resolutions of Congregational Churches, 25
  September 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President summons Sec.
  Chase to White House for conference on supplying additional money to Gov.
  Gamble (Mo.). <bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase
  Diaries</title>, 158.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In evening John Hay rides to Soldiers'
  Home with Lincoln. <bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and
  Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President advises J. Ross that treaty
  obligations between U.S. and Cherokee Nation will be investigated. <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%3A961' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John Ross</xref>, 25 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:439-40.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-26'>Friday, September 26, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meeting on subject of colonization.
<bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 160.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln sends congratulations to Emperor Alexander II of Russia on 
birth of nephew.
<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%3A962' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Alexander II</xref>, 26 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:440.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives by invitation delegation of 12 loyal governors from Altoona 
Conference and replies briefly to address of Gov. Andrew (Mass.).
<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%3A963' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Delegation of Loyal Governors</xref>, 26 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:441;  Washington Star, 26 September 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Chase confers with President and gets his opinion of Gen. McClernand.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 494.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In answer to question, "Why was not the rebel army bagged immediately 
after the battle near Sharpsburg?" Maj. John J. Key is reported to 
have said, "The object is that neither army shall get much advantage 
of the other; that both shall be kept in the field till they are 
exhausted, when we will make a compromise and save slavery." 
President asks Maj. Key to prove within 24 hours that he did not make 
answer as reported.
<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%3A965' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Record of Dismissal of John J. Key</xref>, 26-27 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:442-43.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-27'>Saturday, September 27, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
About 11 A.M. President confers with Maj. Levi C. Turner, judge 
advocate, and Maj. Key regarding methods of Key and others to shape 
outcome of war. Decides to dismiss Key from military service.
<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%3A965' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Record of Dismissal of John J. Key</xref>, 26-27 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:442-43.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln and Postmaster Gen. Blair discuss case of Maj. Key.
<bibl default='NO'>Blair to McClellan, 27 September 1862, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President conducts several daily interviews with Edward Everett on 
matters relating to foreign affairs.
<bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 29 September 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers more than once with Gov. Stanly (N.C.) who disapproves 
Emancipation Proclamation.
<bibl default='NO'>Stanly to Lincoln, 29 September 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Rice, 532-33.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-28'>Sunday, September 28, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President continues summer residence at Soldiers' Home.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles to wife, 28 September 1862, Gideon Welles Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confides in Vice President Hamlin that effects of Emancipation 
Proclamation are "not very satisfactory." "The North responds to the 
proclamation sufficiently in breath; but breath alone kills no 
rebels."
<bibl default='NO'>Charles E. Hamlin, <title>Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin</title> (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1899), 440; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A967' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hannibal Hamlin</xref>, 28 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:444.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1862-09-29'>Monday, September 29, 1862.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
J. W. Forney interviews Lincoln on probable effects of Emancipation 
Proclamation and suspension of writ of habeas corpus.
<bibl default='NO'>Forney to Lincoln, 26 September 1862, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In afternoon at White House Lincoln reviews 145th New York Regiment.
<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 30 September 1862.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Congratulates Gov. Stanly (N.C.) on conduct as military governor and 
expresses wish that "North Carolina may again govern herself 
conformably to the constitution of the United 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%3A969' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward Stanly</xref>, 29 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:445.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Submits to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 subject of collision in ministering among 
Negroes about Port Royal. "A real christian charity, and forbearance 
on the part of all might obviate 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%3A970' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 29 September 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:445-46.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-09-30'>Tuesday, September 30, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> "Little of importance at Cabinet meeting." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Purchases of cotton and trade regulations topics are discussed in cabinet. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 165.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln recommends watchman at White House: "Thomas Stackpole, bearer
  of this, I have known rather intimately since my coming to the White-House, and
  I believe him to be a worthy and competent business 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%3A976' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John E. Wool</xref>, 30 September 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:447.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>