<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-10-01'>Thursday, October 1, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President sets forth duties of Gen. Schofield in
  command in Missouri: 1. Advance efficiency of military establishment. 2. Arrest
  individuals and suppress newspapers when they are working injury to military.
  3. Remove inhabitants en masse at own discretion. 4. Do not engage in returning
  fugitive slaves nor in enticing slaves from their homes. 5. Allow no one to
  enlist Negro troops except upon orders. 6. Allow no one to confiscate property
  except upon orders. 7. Allow only those qualified under Missouri laws to vote.
  8. So far as practicable, expel guerrillas, marauders, and murderers. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1019' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John M. Schofield</xref>, 1 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:492-93.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President's nephew, John Todd Grimsley, fails to meet entrance requirements at
  Naval Academy. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 2 October 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sen.
  Sherman (Ohio) and Judge David K. Cartter visit Lincoln in support of
  delegation from Missouri and Kansas. <bibl default='NO'>Butler,
  <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 3:116.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Lincoln writes Gov. Bradford (Md.): "Please be here in person at 12. M.
  Saturday to fix up definitely in writing" the matter about slaves of loyal
  Marylanders being enlisted along with other Negroes. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1017' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Augustus W. Bradford</xref>, 1 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:491.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Advises Sec.
  Usher: "I suppose [Newton] Edmunds [chief clerk in surveyor general's office
  for Dakota Territory] better be appointed Governor of Dakota." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1022' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John P. Usher</xref>, 1 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:494-95.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-02'>Friday, October 2, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gen. Schofield at St. Louis: "I have just seen your 
despatch to Gen. Halleck about Gen. Blunt. If possible, you better 
allow me to get through with a certain matter here, before adding to 
the difficulty of it. Meantime telegraph me the particulars of Gen. 
Blunt's case."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1023' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Schofield</xref>, 2 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:495.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-03'>Saturday, October 3, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President by proclamation sets last Thursday of November as day of 
thanksgiving.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1027' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation of Thanksgiving</xref>, 3 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:496-97; Washington Chronicle, 4 October 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Sec. Welles on proposed instructions for naval officers.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Gov. Bradford (Md.) regarding enlistment of slaves of 
loyal Marylanders along with other Negroes.
<bibl default='NO'>Bradford to Lincoln, 1 October 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests Gen. William Birney at Baltimore: "Please give me, as near 
as you can, the number of <uLine>slaves</uLine> you have recruited in 
Maryland. Of course, the number is not to include the free colored."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1025' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Birney</xref>, 3 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:495.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-04'>Sunday, October 4, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln predicts outcome of rebellion to Gen. Rosecrans: "If we can 
hold Chattanooga, and East Tennessee, I think the rebellion must 
dwindle and die. I think you and Burnside can do this; and hence 
doing so is your main object."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1030' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 4 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:498.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-05'>Monday, October 5, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President, in answer to petition of delegation from Missouri and 
Kansas, declines to remove Gen. Schofield.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1032' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles D. Drake and Others</xref>, 5 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:499-504.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives September salary warrant for $2,022.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-06'>Tuesday, October 6, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President recognizes Niels P. Petersen as vice consul of Denmark for Illinois.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 9 October 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Attends opening night of new Grover's Theatre and sees performance of 
"Othello."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 9 October 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[W. H. Herndon deposits $213, possibly payment on Joseph Smith note, in Lincoln's 
account in Springfield Marine Bank.
<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='1863-10-07'>Wednesday, October 7, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President interviews P. Anthony Dey, engineer
  heading party surveying for western railroad, regarding military escort. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Blair to Lincoln, 7 October 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of
  Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Inquires of Gov. Johnson (Tenn.): "What news have you from Rosecrans' Army, or
  in that direction beyond Nashville?" <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1037' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Andrew Johnson</xref>, 7 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:505.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-08'>Thursday, October 8, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President suspends three executions.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1038' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 8 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:506; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1039' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 8 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:506; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1040' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 8 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:506.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recognizes Jos&#233; Francisco Sanchez as consul of Venezuela at New York.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 10 October 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-09'>Friday, October 9, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Mrs. Galez calls and asks that Frederick Wippermann, consul at 
Galatza, be transferred to Hamburg.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1043' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 9 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:507.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Chase confers with President regarding reconstruction in 
Louisiana and urges that Gen. Butler be sent back to New Orleans.
<bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 3:120.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 1:30 P.M. President receives invitation to attend celebration of 
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America at Israel Church on 
Capitol Hill.
<bibl default='NO'>Committee to Lincoln, 8 October 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends note to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 that Mrs. Thomas G. Clemsin, daughter of 
John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, asks permission to visit her son 
in prison at Johnson's Island, Ohio. "With your approbation, I 
consent for her to go."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1044' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 9 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:507-8.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-10'>Saturday, October 10, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives Lord Lyons, Rear Adm. Alexander Milne, and two 
other officers of British navy, escorted by Sec. Seward.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 12 October 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Meade reports there are reasons to believe enemy is moving into 
Shenandoah Valley. Lincoln telegraphs: "Am interested with your 
despatch of noon. How is it 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=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1047' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 10 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:509.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-11'>Sunday, October 11, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 9:50 A.M. Lincoln telegraphs Gen. Meade again: "How is it 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=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1049' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 11 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:509.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Seward accompanies Miss Charlotte Cushman, actress who appeared 
frequently for benefit of U.S. Sanitary Commission, to White House 
for evening call on President.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 11 October 1863, 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='1863-10-12'>Monday, October 12, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln telegraphs Gen. Meade at 9 A.M.: "What news this morning? A 
despatch from Rosecrans, leaving him at 7/30 PM. yesterday, says 
'Rebel rumors that head of Ewells column reached Dalton yesterday' I 
send this for what it is worth."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1050' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 12 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:510.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Describes military situation to Gen. Rosecrans at Chattanooga: "You 
and Burnside now have him [enemy] by the throat, and he must break 
your hold, or perish."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1052' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 12 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:510-11.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Mrs. Bowers of New Jersey, who has note of introduction 
from Sec. Welles.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles to Lincoln, 12 October 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Mrs. Alice C. Smith of Boston: "I shall have to acknowledge 
very briefly your letter informing me of the prosperity of your 
little boy whom you so kindly named after me. You may rest assured 
that my little namesake has my best wishes that he may grow to be a 
good man and a good citizen."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1053' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Alice C. Smith</xref>, 12 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:511.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-10-13'>Tuesday, October 13, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At noon cabinet meeting President reads dispatch
  from Gen. Meade stating that, if not attacked by Gen. R. E. Lee, he will attack
  Lee. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President informs I. W. McVeagh: "We have frequent despatches from Gen.
  Meade, and up to ten o'clock last night, nothing had happened giving either
  side any marked advantage." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1056' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to I. Wayne McVeagh</xref>, 13 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:512.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Replies to
  inquiry of Cong. Moorhead (Pa.) regarding publication of military dispatches by
  saying: "Not unless you think it necessary." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1057' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James K. Moorhead</xref>, 13 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:512.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-14'>Wednesday, October 14, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President telegraphs Gov. Curtin (Pa.) regarding election returns: 
"How does it stand."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1059' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew G. Curtin</xref>, [14 October] 186[3], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:513.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles at White House congratulates President on election 
results in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President recognizes Esteban Roberts as consul of Republic of Chile 
at New York.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 16 October 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Exchanges cordial letters with Thurlow Weed: "I am sure if we could 
meet we would not part with any unpleasant impression on either side."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1062' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed</xref>, 14 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:513-14.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-15'>Thursday, October 15, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President discusses political situation while visiting telegraph 
office and makes tabulation to show presidential election will be 
close.
<bibl default='NO'>William B. Hesseltine, <title>Lincoln and the War Governors</title> (New York: Knopf, 1948), 351.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Postpones execution of Dr. Wright to 23d. "This is intended for his 
preparation and is final."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1064' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John G. Foster</xref>, 15 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:514.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Issues pass: "Allow Mrs. Robert S. Todd [step-mother of Mrs. 
Lincoln], widow, to go south and bring her daughter, Mrs. Genl B. 
Hardin Helm, with her children, North to 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=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1070' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman B. Todd</xref>, 15 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:517.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $9 from Springfield Marine Bank, semiannual payment 
of interest on scholarship at Illinois State University.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes an order to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: "This lady, Abigail C. 
Berea, had a husband and three sons in the war, and has been a nurse 
herself, without pay"; and asks to have her youngest son discharged 
because of poor health. "Let it be done."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1069' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 15 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:516.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-16'>Friday, October 16, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Mrs. Elizabeth J. Platt of New Jersey calls and asks for son's 
discharge. [Lincoln orders it five days later.]
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1077' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 16 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:520.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At cabinet meeting President reads his answer to petition from 
Missouri and Kansas delegation.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Also reads to cabinet confidential dispatch to Gen. Meade urging him 
to fight Gen. R. E. Lee.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Halleck: "If Gen. Meade can now attack him [Lee] on a 
field no worse than equal for us, and will do so with all the skill 
and courage, which he, his officers and men possess, the honor will 
be his if he succeeds, and the blame may be mine if he fails."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1073' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 16 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:518-19.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asks Gen. Meigs to see Mrs. Hutter, who has invented some earmuffs 
which she would like to have introduced into the 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=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1075' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Montgomery C. Meigs</xref>, 16 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:519.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes T. W. Sweney: "Tad is teasing me to have you forward his pistol to him."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%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>
         <p>
Receives from Capt. Diller a further report on gunpowder.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1079' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 16 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:521.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-10-17'>Saturday, October 17, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President confers with former Cong. Stanton (Tenn.)
  and Henry T. Hulbert of Tennessee regarding taxes due city of Memphis, Tenn. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Hulbert to Lincoln, 19 October 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of
  Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Issues proclamation calling for 300,000 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=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1085' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
  Calling for 300,000 Volunteers</xref>, 17 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:523-24.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Recognizes
  G. H. Garlichs as consul of Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach for Ohio,
  Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 20 October
  1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Declines offer of William B. Thomas, manufacturer and
  abolitionist of Philadelphia, to supply 10,000 men for 60 or 90 days to protect
  Washington. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1087' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William B. Thomas</xref>, 17 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:525.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Answers plea
  of John Williams and Nathaniel G. Taylor of Knoxville against withdrawal of
  U.S. forces from upper East Tennessee. "You do not estimate the holding of East
  Tennessee more highly than I do. There is no <uLine>absolute</uLine> purpose of
  withdrawing our forces from it; and only a <uLine>contingent</uLine> one to
  withdraw them <uLine>temporarily</uLine>, for the purpose of not losing the
  position <uLine>permanently</uLine>." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1088' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John Williams and Nathaniel G. Taylor</xref>, 17 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:525.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-18'>Sunday, October 18, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews Henry Tanner of Buffalo, N.Y., who seeks 
appointment for son.
<bibl default='NO'>Tanner to Lincoln, 19 October 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives report of John Hay on conference with former Gov. Dennison 
(Ohio) concerning tendency of public opinion in West.
<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='1863-10-19'>Monday, October 19, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President informs John Hay that Gen. Rosecrans will be removed and 
Gen. Thomas will replace him.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Milroy at White House for morning conference with President.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 19 October 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits in Springfield Marine Bank $25, payment on J. K. and 
Thomas Lewis note.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
President answers demand of Gov. Gamble (Mo.) that U.S. forces 
maintain integrity of state government, by pointing out that domestic 
violence apprehended by governor is not imminent and that Gen. 
Schofield is instructed to suppress such violence.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1092' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hamilton R. Gamble</xref>, 19 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:526-28.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-20'>Tuesday, October 20, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Gen. Sickles, probably regarding estate known as 
Panoche Grande, Calif., of which Sickles is part owner.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington National Republican, 20 October 1863; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A839' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Daniel E. Sickles</xref>, 22 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:402.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President confers with Thomas C. Durant, New York promoter of Union 
Pacific Railroad, about surveying plans.
<bibl default='NO'>Durant to Lincoln, 17 October 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves in letter to W. S. Rowland idea of creating National Rifle Corps.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Remarks to Atty. Gen. Bates: "I have no friend in Missouri."
<bibl default='NO'>Bates to Lincoln, 22 October 1863, 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='1863-10-21'>Wednesday, October 21, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Delegation from St. Mary's County, Md., protests to President against 
disturbance caused by Negro troops stationed on Patuxent River. 
Lincoln replies that he thinks he will order withdrawal of troops. He 
further thinks that Negroes may be recruited in Maryland by consent 
of masters.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1098' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Maryland Slaveholders</xref>, 21 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:529-30.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Inquires of Gen. Schenck: "A delegation is here saying that our armed 
colored troops are at many if not all the landings on the Patuxent 
river, and by their presence, with arms in their hands, are 
frightening quiet people, and producing great confusion. Have they 
been sent there by any order? and if so, for what reason?"
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1099' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 21 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:530.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-10-22'>Thursday, October 22, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President addresses members of New School
  Presbyterian Synod during their visit to White House. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1103' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  to New School Presbyterians</xref>, 22 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:531-32; Washington Star, 22
  October 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Comments on speech delivered by Postmaster Gen.
  Blair at Rockville, Md. <bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and
  Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Confers with Sen. Reverdy Johnson (Md.) and Gov.
  Bradford (Md.) on matters of suffrage. <bibl default='NO'>Bradford to Lincoln, 31 October
  1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends for Gen. Schenck: "Please come
  over here. The fact of one of our officers being killed on the Patuxent, is a
  specimen of what I would avoid. It seems to me we could send white men to
  recruit better than to send negroes, and thus inaugerate [sic] homicides on
  punctillio." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1104' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 22 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:532.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-23'>Friday, October 23, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
10 A.M. President consults with Gen. Schenck about recruiting Negroes 
in Maryland and murder by John H. Sothoron and son, secessionists, of 
Lt. Eben White, recruiting officer, at Benedict, Md.
<bibl default='NO'>Schenck to Lincoln, 22 October 1863, 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=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1099' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 21 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:530.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"Only a portion of the Cabinet present and but little done. The 
Missouri difficulty discussed."
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President converses with John R. Briggs, Jr., assistant clerk of 
House of Representatives, regarding election results.
<bibl default='NO'>Briggs to Lincoln, 24 October 1863, 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='1863-10-24'>Saturday, October 24, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President acknowledges receipt of medal from Union League of 
Philadelphia, by which he becomes an honorary member.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1109' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George H. Boker</xref>, 24 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:533-34.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Suggests to Gen. Halleck that Army of Potomac "with all possible 
expedition" get ready to attack Gen. R. E. Lee.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1110' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 24 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:534-35.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 2 P.M. in White House replies to address by moderator of Baltimore 
Presbyterian Synod.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1111' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks to Baltimore Presbyterian Synod: Two Versions</xref>, 24 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:535-36; Washington National Republican, 24 October 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
About 3 P.M. visits Government Printing Office, North Capitol and H 
Sts. NW., on invitation of Supt. John D. Defrees, and speaks briefly 
to employees.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 25 October 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Sec. Chase about appointment of former Gov. Israel 
Washburn, Jr., (Maine) to collectorship at Portland, Maine.
<bibl default='NO'>Chase to Lincoln, 24 October 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Comments on difference of outlook in dispatches from Gens. Rosecrans 
and Thomas.
<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='1863-10-25'>Sunday, October 25, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In afternoon President discusses with Gen. Alfred H. Terry and Col. 
Joseph R. Hawley proposals for attacking Charleston.
<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='1863-10-26'>Monday, October 26, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln gives original draft of Emancipation
  Proclamation to ladies having charge of Northwestern Fair for Sanitary
  Commission in Chicago. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1117' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ladies in Charge of Northwestern Fair</xref>, 26 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:539-40.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Confides
  in Cong. Washburne (Ill.): "A second term [presidential] would be a great honor
  and a great labor, which together, perhaps I would not decline, if tendered." 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1118' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne</xref>, 26 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:540-41.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Postmaster
  Gen. Blair delivers to Lincoln letter containing charges against Alexander
  Montgomery. <bibl default='NO'>Montgomery to Blair, 24 October 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes Sec. Chase: "The writer of the accompanying
  letter is one of Mrs. L[incoln]'s numerous cousins. . . . I know not a thing
  about his loyalty beyond what he says. Supposing he is loyal, can any of his
  requests be 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=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1115' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 26 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:537-38.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Approves
  courtmartial proceedings in case of Capt. James M. Cutts, Jr., brother of late
  Sen. Douglas' (Ill.) second wife, and remits sentence. Writes reprimand [that
  may have been delivered in personal interview]: "You have too much of life yet
  before you, and have shown too much of promise as an officer, for your future
  to be lightly surrendered. . . . No man resolved to make the most of himself,
  can spare time for personal contention." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1116' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James M. Cutts, Jr.</xref>, 26 October 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:538-39.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [See July
  18, 1863.] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-27'>Tuesday, October 27, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln's opinion, based apparently upon "Review of the Judge 
Advocate General of the Record of the Court of Inquiry Relative to 
the Evacuation of Winchester by the command of Maj. Gen. R. H. 
Milroy," is that no courtmartial "is deemed necessary or proper in 
the case."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1119' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Opinion on the Loss of Robert H. Milroy's Division</xref>, [27 October 1863], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:541-42.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-28'>Wednesday, October 28, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President telegraphs Gov. Johnson (Tenn.): "If not too inconvenient, 
please come at once, and have a personal consultation with me."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1122' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew Johnson</xref>, 28 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:543.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Schofield regarding complaints from St. Joseph, and 
Buchanan County, Mo.: "Federal and State authorities are arming the 
disloyal, and disarming the loyal. . . . The remarkable fact, that 
the actual evil is yet only anticipated&#8212;inferred&#8212;induces 
me to suppose I understand the case. . . . I wish you to give special 
attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent 
violence from whatever quarter; and see that the soldiers themselves, 
do no wrong."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1123' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Schofield</xref>, 28 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:543-45.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-29'>Thursday, October 29, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President replies to speech made by M. Romero as envoy extraordinary 
and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1130' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Matias Romero</xref>, 29 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:548-49; 
Washington National Republican, 30 October 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Contributes to efforts of former Cong. Etheridge (Tenn.) to retain 
job as clerk of House of Representatives.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Sen. Grimes (Iowa) and Vice President Hamlin regarding act 
approved March 3, 1863, likely to affect credentials of 
Representatives from their 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=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1127' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James W. Grimes</xref>, 29 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:546-47; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A1128' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hannibal Hamlin</xref>, 29 October 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:547-48.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-10-30'>Friday, October 30, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews George I. Bergen, former resident of Springfield, 
Ill.,