<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-01'>Sunday, February 1, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President explains to Gov. Morton (Ind.): "I think it would not do 
for me to meet you at Harrisburg." [Peace Democrats were advocating a 
Northwest Confederacy. Secret societies were being formed for purpose 
of sabotaging Union.]
<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%3A169' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Oliver P. Morton</xref>, 1 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:87-88.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-02'>Monday, February 2, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Mrs. Elbridge G. Spaulding and Col. Adrian R. Root, accompanied by 
Sen. Doolittle (Wis.), call on President to ask that Eliphalet N. 
Chester be sent to West Point.
<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%3A170' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Eliphalet N. Chester</xref>, 2 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:88.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President acknowledges New Year's address from workingmen of London.
<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%3A171' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Workingmen of London</xref>, 2 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:88-89.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-03'>Tuesday, February 3, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet discusses wisdom of shooting deserter as example to army.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Foot (Vt.) asks Lincoln to send William H. Hodges, nephew of 
Mrs. Foot, to West Point.
<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%3A173' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of William H. Hodges</xref>, 3 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:89-90.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
White House requests copy of "Horacaii Opera" from Library of Congress.
<bibl default='NO'>Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 114, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Source indicates German edition, possibly one published in Leipzig, 
1856, edited by Carl Wilhelm Nauch, and Georg Theodor Kr&#252;ger.] 
President addresses note to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton:</person>
 "Sec. of War, please see 
Mr. Conkling, a good man, who comes as successor of Mr. Campbell, now 
deceased, as agent to settle accounts for Illinois."
<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%3A174' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 3 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:90.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-02-04'>Wednesday, February 4, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President receives from Crafts J. Wright of
  Cincinnati offer to raise, discipline, and command brigade of Negro troops. 
  <bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;WR 107, Off. Sec. War, Register of Letters Received, EB3, Entry
  22.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends report on present conditions in Mexico to House of
  Representatives. <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%3A175' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 4 February 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:90.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs
  Gen. Robert C. Schenck: "I hear of some difficulty in the streets of Baltimore
  yesterday. What is the amount of it?" [Probably group of convalescents from
  Philadelphia showing their antipathy toward Negroes employed at Solders' Rest.]
  <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%3A176' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 4 February 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:90.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends to
  Senate nomination of Comdr. Worden to be captain. <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%3A177' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 4 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:91.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-02-05'>Thursday, February 5,
  1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  congratulates Francisco Solano Lopez upon his election as President of Republic
  of Paraguay. <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%3A178' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Francisco S. Lopez</xref>, 5 February 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:91-92.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits
  to Senate two conventions between U.S. and Peru for settlement of claims. 
  <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%3A179' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 5 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:92;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A180' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 5 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:92-93.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives three
  gentlemen from Boston interested in Navy and directs them to Sec. Seward. 
  <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%3A181' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 5 February 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:93.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Recognizes
  David Stackfold as consul of Argentine Republic at Boston. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
  Star, 9 February 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> 9 P.M. President and
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> have Gen. and Mrs. Marcy as guests.
  <bibl default='NO'>Invitation, 5 February 1863, George B. McClellan Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln receives January salary
  warrant for $2,022.33. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 182.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President Lincoln writes to Major
  General Franz Sigel about the tone of an earlier letter he had written to
  Sigel. Lincoln reveals that Brigadier General Carl Schurz "thinks I was a
  little cross in my late note to you." Lincoln apologizes and explains, "If I do
  get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up." Sigel recently
  complained that the President had slighted Sigel's comrade Brigadier General
  Julius Stahel. <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%3A182' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Franz Sigel</xref>, 5 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:93.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-06'>Friday, February 6, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"Nothing of special importance at the Cabinet."
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President congratulates Bartolom&#233; Mitre on election to 
presidency of Argentine Republic.
<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%3A186' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Bartolom&#233; Mitre</xref>, 6 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:94-95.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends to Senate documentation regarding ships and guns constructed for Japan.
<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%3A187' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 6 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:95-96.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"I observe that the President never tells a joke now."
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cong. James K. Moorhead (Pa.) interviews Lincoln relative to Charles 
Heintzelman and West Point, but gets no promise.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President sends information to Senate regarding death of Gen. 
Frederick T. Ward, U.S. citizen in military service of Chinese 
government.
<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%3A188' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 6 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:96.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-07'>Saturday, February 7, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Afternoon reception of President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> attracts many 
distinguished guests, partly because evening affairs are in abeyance.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 8 February 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $24.25 from Springfield Marine Bank to pay insurance 
on Lincoln's Springfield house.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-09'>Monday, February 9, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President spends typical administrative day: 1. directing sec. of war 
in military transfer, in project for raising Illinois regiments, and 
in selecting paymaster; 2. directing commissioner of general land 
office to hold hearing on 2 per cent fund associated with sale of 
public lands; 3. directing surgeon general to complete physical 
examination of Pvt. Henry Williams.
<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%3A192' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 9 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:97; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A193' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 9 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:97; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A194' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 9 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:98; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A190' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James M. Edmunds</xref>, 9 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:96-97; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A191' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William A. Hammond</xref>, 9 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:97.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-02-10'>Tuesday, February 10, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President designates Gens. Hunter and Saxton
  together with three civilians as persons authorized to select lands for
  government use within state of South Carolina. <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%3A196' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to David Hunter and Others</xref>, 10 February 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:98-99.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends to
  Senate report from secretary of state regarding visit of H. Mercier to Richmond
  last April. <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%3A198' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 10 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:99.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gen. Butler calls and
  asks President to send Philip Reade to West Point. <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%3A197' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum:
  Appointment of Philip Reade</xref>, 10 February 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:99.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sec. Welles
  presents to President name of Col. William Hawley for brigadier general. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  White House personnel, probably <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>,
  borrows book, "Cunningham Nell Gwynn," from Library of Congress. [Peter
  Cunningham, Story of Nell Gwynn; and the Sayings of Charles II, London, 1852.] 
  <bibl default='NO'>Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 348, Archives of the Library of Congress,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> 
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person> entertains Gen. and Mrs. Heintzelman in evening. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-11'>Wednesday, February 11, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President prepares document to "Whom it may concern. Major General 
Butler, bearer of this, visits the Mississippi River, and localities 
thereon, at my request, for observation." [Not used by Butler.]
<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%3A201' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Whom It May Concern</xref>, 11 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:100.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-12'>Thursday, February 12, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Thomas F. Meagher interviews President on behalf of Cols. Robert 
Nugent and Patrick Kelly.
<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%3A202' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 12 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:101.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln holds conference with Secs. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 and Welles and Gen. 
Halleck on task of patrolling rivers.
<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%3A203' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 12 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:101.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Summons Asst. Sec. Fox to White House for information on Charleston expedition.
<bibl default='NO'>Gustavus V. Fox, <title>Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox</title>, 2 vols. (New York: n.p., 1918), 1:178.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate: 1. report and documentation relating to 
mediation, arbitration, and similar measures looking to termination 
of existing civil war; 2. nomination of former Comdr. Preble to be 
commander on active list; 3. nomination of former Comdr. Roger Perry 
(USN, commission expired) to be commander.
<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%3A204' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 12 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:101-2; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A205' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 12 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:102; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A206' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 12 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:102-3.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-13'>Friday, February 13, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
On invitation of Gen. John G. Barnard, President and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 
drive across Potomac to Fort Dekalb, Va., for demonstration of George 
W. Beardslee's electric detonating system or blasting apparatus.
<bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 226.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cong. George H. Yeaman (Ky.) confers with Lincoln about transfer of 
Gen. Richard W. Johnson.
<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%3A211' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning Transfer of Richard W. Johnson</xref>, 13 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:104.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President communicates to House of Representatives all information in 
Dept. of Interior respecting causes of recent outbreaks of Indian 
tribes in Northwest.
<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%3A210' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Galusha A. Grow</xref>, 13 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:104.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Forwards to Senate report concerning employment by French Emperor of 
African troops in 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%3A212' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 13 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:105.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen Cassius M. Clay is in Washington awaiting President's decision on 
appointment of minister to Russia.
<bibl default='NO'>Lincoln to Cameron, 13 February 1863, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> gives small evening reception for 50 guests in honor of 
"Gen. Tom Thumb" [Charles S. Stratton] and bride [Lavinia Warren].
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 14 February 1863; Nicolay to Bates, 15 February 1863, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-02-14'>Saturday, February 14, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Stratton leave White House,
  having been overnight guests. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14 February 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> President, secretary of war, and party travel across Potomac to watch
  "Col. Alexander set off a forigarre." <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P.
  Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Rear
  Adm. John A. Dahlgren goes to White House to check report that ironclads at
  Charleston need ammunition. Later President calls him back for conference with
  Gen. Halleck and Asst. Sec. Fox. Lincoln "is restless about Charleston." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "Reception at White House to-day
  unusually largely attended. For two hours the throng of visitors pressed in a
  steady current." <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N. Y. Herald</title>, 15 February 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Mrs. Fox calls on <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and
  finds her in high spirits. <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library
  of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-15'>Sunday, February 15, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Andrew J. Hamilton recommends to President that separate 
department be created for Texas.
<bibl default='NO'>Hamilton to Lincoln, 16 February 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President studies plan to attack Charleston with Gens. Halleck and 
John G. Foster and with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 and Asst. Sec. Fox.
<bibl default='NO'>Gustavus V. Fox, <title>Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox</title>, 2 vols. (New York: n.p., 1918), 1:179-80.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
6 P.M. Gen. Butler is guest at informal White House dinner.
<bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 3:13.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-16'>Monday, February 16, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President requests secretaries of war and navy to appoint an officer 
from each department to test incendiary shell and fluid of Alfred 
Berney, chemist at Jersey City.
<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%3A218' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton and Gideon Welles</xref>, 16 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:107.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Sec. Welles on sending Asst. Sec. Fox to advise Rear 
Adm. Samuel F. Du Pont at Charleston.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults with Rear Adm. Dahlgren about "some inflammable humbug" and 
plan of attack on Charleston. 
<bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 229.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Inquires of Atty. Gen. Bates if it is lawful for President to return fine of $40 to Nathan 
Darling, captain of Capitol police.
<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%3A216' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward Bates</xref>, 16 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:106-7.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-17'>Tuesday, February 17, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President transmits to Senate treaty with Potawatomi Nation in Kansas.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A222' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 17 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:109.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Reads to cabinet letters between himself and Cong.-elect Fernando 
Wood, former mayor of New York.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Thurlow Weed who asks that Charles Heintzelman be sent to 
West Point.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, 18 February 1863, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 7 P.M. receives W. H. Tyler, chairman, and members of New York 
committee bearing resolutions concerning colonization of Florida with 
"armed free labor colonies."
<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%3A220' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning Interview with W. H. Tyler and Committee</xref>, 17 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:108.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Suggests to Gen. Rosecrans that Union army try using small bands of 
troops for counter raids patterned after raiding parties of 
Confederate forces.
<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%3A221' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 17 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:108-9.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-18'>Wednesday, February 18, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cong. Arnold (Ill.) accompanies Col. Joseph H. Tucker of Chicago to 
interview President on probability of getting Henry R. Tucker, not 
yet 16 years old, into West Point.
<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%3A224' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Henry R. Tucker</xref>, 18 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:110.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President transmits to Senate additional article to treaty with Great 
Britain regarding suppression of African slave trade.
<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%3A225' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 18 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:110.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Instructs Sec. Seward to convene cabinet at 10 A.M. tomorrow.
<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%3A226' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 18 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:110-11.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-02-19'>Thursday, February 19, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At special cabinet meeting President presents
  question of extra session of Senate and breventing of regular officers. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; Bates,
  <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln requests
  copy of letter from Asst. Sec. Fox to Rear Adm. Du Pont and hopes that Fox will
  go to Charleston before attack. <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives request from
  Senate for copy of letter written by Gen. Scott to secretary of war relative to
  insubordination of Gen. McClellan. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Frank Leslie's Illustrated
  Newspaper</title>, 7 March 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes W. H. Herndon: "Would
  you accept a job of about a month's duration at St. Louis, five dollars a day
  &amp; mileage? Answer." [Herndon declined the assignment.] <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%3A228' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William H. Herndon</xref>, 19 February 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:111.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends
  following nominations to Senate: 1. Commodore Charles H. Davis to be rear
  admiral; 2. Capt. John A. Dahlgren to be rear admiral; 3. Capt. Stephen C.
  Rowan to be commodore; 4. Comdr. David D. Porter to be captain. [Davis and
  Dahlgren were appointed retroactively rear admirals as of February 7, 1863, and
  Rowan a commodore as of July 16, 1862.] <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A229' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 19 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:111-12.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes Thurlow
  Weed: "The matters I spoke to you about are important; I hope you will not
  neglect them." [In this connection approximately fifteen New York merchants
  pledge $1,000 each. Probably raised to finance party machinery.] <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%3A230' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Thurlow Weed</xref>, 19 February 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:112-13.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-20'>Friday, February 20, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President in long morning conversation with chiefs of Chippewa Indians.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 21 February 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Borrows for White House, "Richter Werke, vol. 14 to 17 incl." [Johann 
Paul Freidrich Richter, Jean Paul's Sammtliche Werke, Berlin, 
1826-28.]
<bibl default='NO'>Borrowers' Ledger 1861-63, 348, Archives of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-21'>Saturday, February 21, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cong. John S. Watts (New Mexico Terr.) and friends interview 
President on behalf of John Wilson for surveyor general of Arizona 
Territory.
<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%3A233' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memoranda: Appointment of John Wilson</xref>, 21 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:113.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"Public reception at White House to-day was very numerously attended. 
. . . The President was cordial in his greetings, and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> 
manifested towards all visitors the affability for which she is 
distinguished."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 22 February 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"President looks haggard and careworn . . . yet he preserves his good nature."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper</title>, 28 February 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Dr. Anson G. Henry, old family friend, is dinner guest.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:511.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-22'>Sunday, February 22, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President declines to preside at meeting of U.S. Christian Commission 
in House of Representatives.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:511; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A236' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Alexander Reed</xref>, 22 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:114-15.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Doolittle (Wis.) and Gen. Heintzelman confer with Lincoln about 
changing date of Gen. C. S. Hamilton's commission.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-23'>Monday, February 23, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives resignation of Simon Cameron as U.S. minister to 
Court of St. Petersburg.
<bibl default='NO'>Cameron to Lincoln, 23 February 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests interview: "Will Senator Wilson please call and see me." 
[Directed to either Sen. Wilson (Mass.) or Sen. Robert Wilson (Mo.).]
<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%3A237' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Senator Wilson</xref>, 23 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:115.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-02-24'>Tuesday, February 24, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cabinet discusses propriety of sending letter of
  Gen. Scott, written just before his retirement, to Senate, and rumor of loss of
  U.S.S. "Queen of the West." <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Delegation from West
  Virginia calls on President and asks for greater military protection against
  increasing guerrilla warfare. <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%3A238' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 24 February 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:115-16.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  converses with Judge William H. Robertson of New York on current political
  problems. <bibl default='NO'>Robertson to Lincoln, 25 February 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Occupies private box at Grover's Theatre, E St., bet. 13th
  and 14th Sts. NW., for performance by Barney Williams, blackface minstrel and
  Irish comedian. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 26 February 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Irwin withdraws $25.13 from Springfield Marine Bank. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-25'>Wednesday, February 25, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President approves act establishing system of national banks.
<bibl default='NO'>J. Duane Squires, "Some Enduring Achievements of the Lincoln Administration, 1861-65," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 5 (December 1848):198-99.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends nominations to Senate for "Passed Midshipman Samuel Pearce and 
Nathaniel T. West, now on the retired list, to be ensigns in the Navy 
on the retired list."
<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%3A240' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 25 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:116-17.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-26'>Thursday, February 26, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews William W. Danenhower, Chicago attorney who 
wants to be fourth auditor of treasury.
<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%3A243' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of William W. Danenhower</xref>, 26 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:118.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives request from Gen. Cassius M. Clay to push his nomination to 
Court of St. Petersburg in spite of congressional objection.
<bibl default='NO'>Albert A. Woldman, <title>Lincoln and the Russians</title> (Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1952), 121-22.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Atty. Gen. Bates consults with Lincoln at War Dept. about antidraft 
riots in Missouri.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-27'>Friday, February 27, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and Sec. Chase discuss appointment of collectors for 
Hartford district in Connecticut.
<bibl default='NO'>Chase to Lincoln, 2 March 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cong. Elijah Babbitt (Pa.) urges President to appoint son of Judge 
Garrick Mallery to West Point.
<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%3A247' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of John C. Mallery</xref>, 27 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:119.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Several senators and representatives call on President concerning 
report on California trade.
<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%3A248' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning Report on California Trade</xref>, 27 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:119.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes B. Williams, who seeks appointment for nephew: "I 
really wish to oblige you; but the best I can do is to keep the 
papers, and try to find a place before long."
<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%3A250' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Barney Williams</xref>, 27 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:120.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-02-28'>Saturday, February 28, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President calls special session of Senate for March 4, 1863 to handle 
backlog of appointments and promotions.
<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%3A252' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Convening the Senate</xref>, 28 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:120-21.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate correspondence with workingmen in England.
<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%3A253' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 28 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:121.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends to Congress documentation regarding "distressed operatives of 
Blackburn," England.
<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%3A254' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 28 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:121-22.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Arthur M. Eastman, arms manufacturer of Massachusetts, confers with 
Lincoln about guns as directed by 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
.
<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%3A255' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 28 February 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:122.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln in President's Room at Capitol attending to public business.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 1 March 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Does not attend usual Saturday afternoon reception at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 2 March 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>