<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-01'>Sunday, March 1, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers about military appointments with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
, 
Gens. Halleck and Heintzelman, and Adjt. Gen. Thomas in 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
's 
office.
<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='1863-03-02'>Monday, March 2, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln forwards to Congress acceptance by New Mexico Territory of 
land grants for colleges.
<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%3A259' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 2 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW </title>, 6:123-24.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"Last levee of the season of President Lincoln and his lady took 
place at the Presidential Mansion last evening, and was the best 
attended and most brilliant one of the many given this winter."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 3 March 1863; <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 3 March 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-03-03'>Tuesday, March
  3, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President spends
  part of day with Asst. Sec. Fox. Seems "depressed." <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary,
  Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Approves act authorizing free mail delivery in 49 cities of U.S. and act
  authorizing grant of public lands to Kansas for railroad and telegraph
  construction. <bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 701, 772.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Joint
  congressional committee notifies President of adjournment unless he has further
  communications. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Senate Journal</title>, 444.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President approves bill establishing National Academy of Sciences. <bibl default='NO'>J.
  Duane Squires, "Some Enduring Achievements of the Lincoln Administration,
  1861-65," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 5 (December 1848):209; Stat.
  L., XII, 806.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Occupies President's Room at Capitol until near
  11 P.M. Secs. Seward and Welles, and Postmaster Gen. Blair also present. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 4 March 1863; <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 4 March
  1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-04'>Wednesday, March 4, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Jonathan Haines, holder of patent on harvesting 
machine, and gives him letter of introduction.
<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%3A260' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to David P. Holloway</xref>, 4 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:124.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Congratulates Miguel San Roman on election to presidency of Republic of Peru.
<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%3A261' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Miguel de San Roman</xref>, 4 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:124.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends for Asst. Sec. Fox to explain certain dispatches.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults with Postmaster Gen. Blair about problems for colonizing Negroes.
<bibl default='NO'>Blair to Lincoln, 5 March 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='1863-03-05'>Thursday, March 5, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives $868 in stolen money from conscience-stricken 
resident of Brooklyn, N.Y. Prepares receipt for treasurer of U.S. to 
sign and sends money 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%3A263' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Receipt from Francis E. Spinner</xref>, 5 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:125.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Senate committee announces to President that Senate is ready to 
receive communications.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Journal</title>, 449. Sec.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Welles spends most of evening until 11 P.M. in President's room.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln receives February salary warrant for $2,022.34.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-06'>Friday, March 6, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Marshal Lamon and Atty. Gen. Bates regarding 
execution of Augustus Ford for murder.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 7 March 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening sees Gen. Fremont by appointment and promises to tell him 
something definite about new command.
<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%3A268' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 7 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:127.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-07'>Saturday, March 7, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Rear Adm. Dahlgren visits President and finds him nervous and uneasy.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sen. Wade (Ohio), chairman, Committee on Conduct of War, confers with 
President at 8 P.M.
<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%3A270' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Wade</xref>, 7 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:128.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
White House public receptions over for season. Saturday afternoon 
receptions from 1 to 3 P.M. begin.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 7 March 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln asks Sec. Seward to come over "and bring the 'Marque &amp; 
Reprisal' bill with you."
<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%3A266' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 7 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:126.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: "Please see Gen. Halleck to-day; and if you can 
get him half agreed, I agree" to an appointment for Gen. Fremont.
<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%3A268' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 7 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:127.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Refers letter of this date to Secs. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 and Welles with 
endorsement: "Submitted to Mars &amp; Neptune."
<bibl default='NO'>Dix to Lincoln, 7 March 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='1863-03-08'>Sunday, March 8, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln approves memorandum of Sec. Seward to Lord Lyons suggesting 
that England allow no more ships built and slipped out of her ports 
for ultimate service to Confederate States of America.
<bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 291.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Edward L. Baker, editor, "Illinois State Journal," 
relative to brevets in Marine Corps.
<bibl default='NO'>Baker to Welles, 9 March 1863, Gideon Welles Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-03-09'>Monday, March
  9, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cong. Thaddeus
  Stevens (Pa.) asks President to give Col. Joseph W. Fisher place of Gen. Edwin
  H. Stoughton, captured in bed at 2 A.M., March 9, 1863, at Fairfax, Va., by
  Gen. John S. Mosby (CSA). <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%3A275' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum
  Concerning Joseph W. Fisher</xref>, 9 March 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:129.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Brig. Gen. of
  Vols. W. F. Smith interviews President to adjust rank as major general in
  regular Army. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A276' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum
  Concerning William F. Smith</xref>, 9 March 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:129-30.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sen.
  Lemuel J. Bowden (Va.), Mr. Boyd, editor, and John Hawxhurst, Virginia
  legislator, call on President and ask promotion of Col. Joseph Snider, 7th
  Virginia Regiment, to brigadier general. <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%3A277' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum
  Concerning Joseph Snider</xref>, 9 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:130.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President interviews
  Mil. Gov. John S. Phelps (Ark.) in presence of <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec.
  Stanton</person> on proposition for placing army of 12,000 to 15,000 men in
  Arkansas, ready to move immediately on fall of Vicksburg, Miss. <bibl default='NO'>Phelps to
  Lincoln, 9 March 1863, Edwin M. Stanton Papers, Library of Congress, Washington
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Asks War Dept.: "Can any thing be done for this Lady-friend
  of Marshal Lamon? I do not see how." [Probably Miss Maria A. Donnelly of
  Martinsburg, Va., whose sister had been recently released from imprisonment in
  Richmond.] <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A272' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement</xref>,
  9 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:128.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-10'>Tuesday, March 10, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Leopold C. P. Cooper of Norfolk, asks Lincoln to place Leopold O. 
Parker in 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%3A282' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Leopold O. Parker</xref>, 10 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:132.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President proclaims amnesty to soldiers absent without leave.
<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%3A283' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Granting Amnesty to Soldiers Absent without Leave</xref>, 10 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:132-33.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet discusses regulations for letters of marque.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
9 P.M. President, Secs. Seward and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
, Gen. Heintzelman, and 
several Senators discuss sending troops to protect Arizona.
<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='1863-03-11'>Wednesday, March 11, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Col. Edward B. Cross, accompanied by Sen. Hale (N.H.), calls on 
President and asks promotion.
<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%3A285' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Edward E. Cross</xref>, 11 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:133.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cong. Rollins (Mo.) interviews Lincoln on behalf of Col. Odon Guitar.
<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%3A286' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Odon Guitar</xref>, 11 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:133-34.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-12'>Thursday, March 12, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President transmits to Senate treaty with chiefs and headmen of 
Chippewa Indians.
<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%3A290' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 12 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:135.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Listens to report from Rear Adm. Du Pont in office to Sec. Welles.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-13'>Friday, March 13, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives Mrs. Winston from Tennessee and permits her to 
remove wounded son from prison in Fort McHenry, Md.
<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%3A292' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William W. Morris</xref>, 13 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:135; Rice, 507-8.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet continues to discuss letters of marque.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Senate committee notifies President of adjournment unless he has 
further communications.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Journal</title>, 455.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln attends Washington Theatre to see James H. Hackett as 
Falstaff in "King Henry IV."
<bibl default='NO'>Hackett to Lincoln, 20 March 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='1863-03-14'>Saturday, March 14, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends congratulations to Isabel II, Queen of Spain, on 
birth of nephew, son of Duchess of Montpensier.
<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%3A293' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isabel II</xref>, 14 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:136.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Sen. Thomas H. Hicks (Md.) and delegation on behalf of 
Col. George Sangster.
<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%3A294' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Promotion of George Sangster</xref>, 14 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:136.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Borrows copy of "Hume's England Vols., 3 &amp; 4" from Library of 
Congress. [David Hume, The History of England, London: 1754-62?]
<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='1863-03-15'>Sunday, March
  15, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  receives members of committee from New York who "enumerate ships now building
  in English yards professedly for the Emperor of China, but really for our
  rebels." <bibl default='NO'>Pierce, <title corresp='books_Pierce'>Sumner Memoir and
  Letters</title>, 4:129.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In evening Lincoln and Sen. Sumner
  (Mass.) read aloud to each other from Theodore D. Woolsey's "Introduction to
  the Study of International Law." [Boston: 1860] <bibl default='NO'>Pierce,
  <title corresp='books_Pierce'>Sumner Memoir and Letters</title>, 4:121.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-16'>Monday, March 16, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Hugh W. Crothers, aide to Gov. Peirpoint (Va.), calls on President in 
interest of Col. Isaac H. Duval.
<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%3A295' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning Isaac H. Duval</xref>, 16 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:136-37.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Former Cong. Kellian Van R. Whaley (Va.) visits President to get Rev. 
Henry Stevens appointed hospital chaplain.
<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%3A296' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Henry Stevens</xref>, 16 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:137.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Discusses whether to issue letters of marque under new statute.
<bibl default='NO'>Pierce, <title corresp='books_Pierce'>Sumner Memoir and Letters</title>, 4:129.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-17'>Tuesday, March 17, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln sends for Asst. Sec. Fox to learn about failure of Rear Adm. 
Farragut to run by Port Hudson, La.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cong. Henry W. Davis (Md.) discusses organization of new House of 
Representatives with President.
<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%3A303' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Davis</xref>, 18 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:140-41.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meeting continues subject of privateering.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> visit patent office.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 20 March 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gen. Rosecrans: "You wrong both yourself and us, when 
you even suspect there is not the best disposition on the part of us 
all here to oblige you." Rosecrans complains that his requests 
regarding paymasters, his own commission, and appointment of aide 
were not granted. He cites 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
's promise that, "Anything you 
&amp; your command want, you can have." Lincoln explains: "The 
promise must have a reasonable construction." Paymaster assignments 
are temporary purposely to prevent them from speculating upon 
soldiers. "You should remember that precisely so much as you should 
gain by it [changing date of commission] others would lose by it. . . 
. I do not appreciate this matter of rank on paper, as you officers 
do. The world will not forget that you fought the battle of 'Stone 
River' and it will never care a fig whether you rank Gen. Grant on 
paper, or he so, ranks you."
<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%3A301' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 17 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:138-40.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Joshua F. Speed: "<uLine>Confidential</uLine>. . . . Lyman 
Guinnip [dealer in agricultural implements at Danville, Ill.], is 
under an indictment at Louisville, something about slaves. I knew him 
slightly. . . . I scarcely think he is guilty of any real crime 
Please try if you can not slip him through."
<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%3A302' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed</xref>, 17 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:140.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-18'>Wednesday, March 18, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President proclaims treaty of commerce and navigation with Republic of Liberia.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 29 April 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cong. Julian (Ind.) confers with President about appointments and 
refers to unemployment of Gen. Fremont. Lincoln admits that he does 
not know where to put him.
<bibl default='NO'>George W. Julian, <title>Political Recollections 1840-1872</title> (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, 1884), 229-30.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Cong. Davis (Md.): "As you ask my opinion, I give it that the 
supporters of the war should send no man to congress who will not go 
into caucus with the unconditional supporters of the war, . . . Let 
the friends of the government first save the government, and then 
administer it to their own liking."
<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%3A303' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Davis</xref>, 18 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:140-41.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-19'>Thursday, March 19, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gov. John A. Gurley (Arizona Terr.) and John N. Goodwin, chief 
justice, Arizona Territory, consult further with President about 
troops. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 and Postmaster Gen. Blair are present.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Washington Chronicle, 20 March 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-03-20'>Friday, March
  20, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  revokes courtmartial sentence of Thomas W. Knox, correspondent of New York
  "Herald," "if Gen. Grant shall give his express assent." <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%3A308' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Whom It May Concern</xref>, 20 March 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:142-43.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gov.
  Gurley (Arizona Terr.) again confers with President and believes matter of
  troops settled. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Pursuant to law, President
  declares public sales of lands in Washington Territory, Michigan, and Kansas. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 1 April 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-21'>Saturday, March 21, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln sends his old friend Dr. Anson G. Henry, surveyor general of 
Washington Territory, with a note to Sec. Chase.
<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%3A309' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 21 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:144.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits $472.50 in Springfield Marine Bank, balance of 
principal and interest on A. J. Van Deren note.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-23'>Monday, March 23, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln endorses letter of Alexander Williamson: "Submitted to the 
Sec. of Treasury. Mr. Williamson, writer of the within was our 
'Willie's' teacher; and I would be really glad for him to be obliged."
<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%3A312' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 23 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:144-45.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gov. Horatio Seymour (N.Y.): "<uLine>Private &amp; 
Confidential</uLine> . . . you and I are substantially strangers; and 
I write this chiefly that we may become better acquainted. . . . As 
to maintaining the nation's life, and integrity, I assume, and 
believe, there can not be a difference of <uLine>purpose</uLine> 
between you and me. . . . In theperformance of my duty, the 
co-operation of your State, as that of others, is needed&#8212;in 
fact, is indispensable. . . . Please write me at least as long a 
letter as this&#8212;of course, saying in it, just what you think 
fit."
<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%3A314' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Horatio Seymour</xref>, 23 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:145-46.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-24'>Tuesday, March 24, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln directs 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: "Let [Col.] James H. Ledlie [3d New 
York Artillery] . . . be made a Brigadier General, if it is legally 
possible."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A317' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 24 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:147.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Inquires of secretary of war: "Can not this sum of 250,000 be paid at 
once?" Amount requested by governor of Kentucky to aid in raising new 
troops.
<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%3A318' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 24 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:147.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-25'>Wednesday, March 25, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President commutes death sentence of James S. Pleasants, citizen of 
Montgomery County, Md., to imprisonment during war.
<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%3A319' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Commutation of Sentence of James S. Pleasants</xref>, 25 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:148.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Authorizes Benjamin Gratz to shelter Mrs. Susan S. Grigsby, wife of 
Confederate officer, and "be responsible for what she may do."
<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%3A320' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin Gratz</xref>, 25 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:148.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Refuses request of Gen. Rosecrans to renominate Gen. Robert B. Mitchell.
<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%3A321' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 25 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:148-49.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Forwards five-pound bank note from British subject to U.S. Christian 
Commission for purchase of Bibles.
<bibl default='NO'>Stuart to Lincoln, 25 March 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Greets at White House six exchanged soldiers who took part in Andrews 
train raid in April 1862.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 26 March 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Attends Grover's Theatre to witness performance of "Hamlet" starring 
E. L. Davenport.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 26 March 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin draws draft for $10.79 to pay taxes on Council Bluffs, Iowa, land.
<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='1863-03-26'>Thursday, March 26, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln expresses opinion to Mil. Gov. Johnson
  (Tenn.): "The colored population is the great <uLine>available</uLine> and yet
  <uLine>unavailed</uLine> of, force for restoring the 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%3A324' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Andrew Johnson</xref>, 26 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:149-50.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Eli
  Parker of New York regarding appointment. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A325' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Montgomery C. Meigs</xref>, 26 March 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:150.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "The
  President is in excellent spirits to-day." <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>,
  27 March 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Mary F. Carpenter visits President. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Carpenter to Lincoln, 27 March 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of
  Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Lincoln shakes hands with Mr. Fowler, old Shaker friend of Sec. Seward. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 26 March 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='1863-03-27'>Friday, March 27, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Former Lt. Gov. Daniel S. Dickinson (N.Y.) and friend, Edward J. 
Westcott, confer with President on trading at Newbern, N.C.
<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%3A327' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 27 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:150.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President addresses group of Indian chiefs in East Room of White 
House: "It is the object of this Government to be on terms of peace 
with you, and with all our red brethren. We constantly endeavor to be 
so. We make treaties with you, and will try to observe them; and if 
our children should sometimes behave badly, and violate these 
treaties, it is against our wish."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 28 March 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%3A329' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech to Indians</xref>, 27 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:151-53.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
James Blake of Indianapolis, Ind., discusses appointments with President.
<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%3A330' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 27 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:153.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln receives Jacob Wilson on recommendation of Mayor George 
Opdyke (N.Y.) and directs him to 
<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%3A332' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 27 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:154.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-28'>Saturday, March 28, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"There will be no more Saturday afternoon receptions at the Executive 
Mansion during the remainder of the season."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 28 March 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-29'>Sunday, March 29, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President informs Gen. Banks, commanding Dept. of the Gulf, that Gen. 
Daniel Ullmann will undertake to raise Negro brigade in department 
and will need help.
<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%3A334' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks</xref>, 29 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:154-55.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President in chief clerk's room at Navy Dept. conversing with Sec. 
Welles and Asst. Sec. Fox; "looks thin and badly&#8212;is very 
nervous and complains of everything."
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: "I fear&#8212;in fact, believe&#8212;the 
despatch you mentioned is utter humbuggery. . . . Besides there are 
no six-iron-clads, nor 15000 men at Vicksburg to pass through the 
canal, even if the Mississippi river had risen fifteen feet in as 
many minutes."
<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%3A335' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 29 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:155.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-30'>Monday, March 30, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sets apart April 30, 1863 "as a day of national 
humiliation, fasting and prayer."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 1 April 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%3A336' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day</xref>, 30 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:155-57.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-03-31'>Tuesday, March 31, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President permits restricted commercial intercourse with inhabitants 
of insurrectionary 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%3A338' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>License of Commercial Intercourse</xref>, 31 March 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:157.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Gen. Hooker on military subjects.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper</title>, 18 April 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Accompanied by Secs. Seward, Chase, and Usher, and Postmaster Gen. 
Blair, attends Union meeting at Capitol. "The greatest popular 
demonstration ever known in Washington."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 1 April 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Tad climbs on and off President's lap several times. "Father Abe 
looks so careworn that one could but pity him."
<bibl default='NO'>Robert L. Kincaid, "Julia Susan Wheelock, the Florence Nightingale of Michigan during the War," <title>Lincoln Herald</title> 46 (October 1944):44.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>