<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-04-01'>Wednesday, April 1, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President interviews John B. S. Todd whose commission expired
  July 17, 1862, and promises to nominate him again for brigadier general, if one
  or two senators agree to change their votes. <bibl default='NO'>Todd to
  Cameron, 2 April 1863, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> </p> <p> Confers with Gov. Edward Salomon (Wis.) regarding
  establishment of U.S. general hospital in that state. <bibl default='NO'>DNA&#x2014;WR RG 94, Adjt. Gen. Off., Letters Received, Misc.
  Branch, XXXIX, Sup. 1, 1064.</bibl> </p> <p> Discusses Missouri affairs with S.
  T. Glover and Atty. Gen. Bates. <bibl default='NO'>Bates,
  <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> President Lincoln
  writes to Major General David Hunter regarding Hunter's deployment of black
  soldiers at Jacksonville, Florida. Lincoln writes, "It is important to the
  enemy that such a force shall <uLine>not</uLine> take shape, and grow, and
  thrive, in the South; and in precisely the same proportion, it is important to
  us that it <uLine>shall</uLine>. Hence the utmost caution and vigilance is
  necessary on our part. The enemy will make extra efforts to destroy them; and
  we should do the same to preserve and increase them." <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%3A339' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to David Hunter</xref>, 1
  April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:158.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-02'>Thursday, April 2, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President by proclamation reduces scope of commercial intercourse 
with 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%3A342' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation about Commercial Intercourse</xref>, 2 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:159-60.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Convinces Sec. Welles that Rear Adm. Farragut's position should be 
strengthened. Accordingly Welles orders Rear Adm. Du Pont to send all 
but two ironclads to New Orleans as soon as Charleston surrenders.
<bibl default='NO'>Gustavus V. Fox, <title>Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox</title>, 2 vols. (New York: n.p., 1918), 1:197; West, <title corresp='books_West'>Welles</title>, 231.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> receive at public White House reception. 
Jane Grey Swisshelm, abolitionist journalist, meets Lincoln for first 
time.
<bibl default='NO'>Frank Klement, "Jane Grey Swisshelm and Lincoln: A Feminist Fusses and Frets," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 6 (December 1950):234-35.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening President calls at Welles' house to read letter prepared 
by Welles concerning privateers.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Deposits June 1862 salary warrant for $2,083.33 in Riggs Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-04-03'>Friday, April 3, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Mr. Martin, Philadelphia artist, is engaged in painting
  full-length portraits of President and his two sons. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 3 April 1863.</bibl> </p> <p> At cabinet
  meeting Secs. Welles and Seward discuss letters of marque. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> 
  <p> President Lincoln telegraphs Commander of the Army of the Potomac Major
  General Joseph Hooker concerning Lincoln's upcoming visit to Hooker's
  headquarters. Lincoln and others will depart the next evening "on the boat; go
  over from Acquia-creek to your camp Sunday morning; remain with you till
  Tuesday morning, and then return. Our party will probably not exceed six
  persons of all sorts." Lincoln's traveling companions include his wife Mary,
  their son Tad, Attorney General Edward Bates, and journalist Noah Brooks. 
  <bibl default='NO'> Howard K. Beale, ed., <title>The Diary of Edward Bates
  1859-1866</title> (Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office,
  1933), 287;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A344' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 3
  April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:161.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-04-04'>Saturday, April 4, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='' teiForm='name'>General Hooker's
  Headquarters</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President receives several members of
  Joint Committee on Conduct of War. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 4 April 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Recognizes George Papendick as consul of Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg
  Schwerin. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 8 April 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Confers with
  Sec. Welles and Asst. Sec. Fox about granting letters of marque to applicant. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Gideon Welles, <title>Lincoln and Seward: Remarks upon the Memorial
  Address of Chas. Francis Adams, on the Late Wm. H. Seward</title> (New York:
  Sheldon, 1874), 163-64.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Congratulates Isabel II, Queen of
  Spain, on birth of son to Infanta Maria Christina. <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%3A347' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Isabel II</xref>, 4 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:162.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Miss
  Davis who asks for appointment of her brother, John M. K. Davis, 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%3A348' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum:
  Appointment of John M. K. Davis</xref>, 4 April 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:162.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President and
  party consisting of <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Tad, Noah
  Brooks, California journalist, Dr. Henry, Atty. Gen. Bates, and Capt Medorem
  Crawford of Oregon leave Navy Yard about 5 P.M. aboard steamer "Carrie Martin."
  Snowstorm forces them to stop for night in cove on Potomac opposite Indian
  Head, Md. <bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "Castine" [Noah Brooks], Washington, April 12, 1863, in Sacramento Union,
  May 8, 1863. Lincoln writes memorandum on harbor defenses: "I have a single
  idea of my own about harbor defences. It is a Steam-ram, built so as to
  sacrifice nearly all capacity for carrying, to those of speed and strength. . .
  . her business would be to guard a particular harbour, as a Bull-dog guards his
  master's door." <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%3A349' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum
  Concerning Harbor Defenses</xref>, 4 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:163.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-04-05'>Sunday, April
  5, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.5167, -77.6000' teiForm='name'>Aquia Creek, VA</place>, <place key='38.3167, -77.4667' teiForm='name'>Falmouth, VA</place>,
  and <place key='' teiForm='name'>General Hooker's Headquarters</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President and
  party of six arrive mouth of Aquia Creek Sunday morning. Board special train 10
  A.M. and reach Gen. Hooker's headquarters at Falmouth about noon. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6 April 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Occupy three large
  hospital tents. <bibl default='NO'>Brooks, <title corresp='books_Brooks2'>Washington</title>, 48.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln reads
  "rebel papers" for news of Charleston. <bibl default='NO'>Noah Brooks, "Personal
  Reminiscences of Lincoln," <title>Scribner's Monthly</title> 15
  (1877/1878):673.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-04-06'>Monday, April 6, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.3167, -77.4667' teiForm='name'>Falmouth, VA</place>. </dateline>
  <p> Grand review postponed because of weather. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
  Chronicle, 7 April 1863.</bibl> </p> <p> President rides horseback from place
  to place visiting disabled soldiers. <bibl default='NO'>Brooks,
  <title corresp='books_Brooks2'>Washington</title>, 48.</bibl> </p> <p>President
  Lincoln, his wife Mary, their son Tad, Attorney General Edward Bates, and
  others visit the Army of the Potomac's headquarters. A newspaper reports, "The
  visit . . . has served to relieve the monotony of camp life . . . It is
  pleasant also to see a lady in the camp, and Mrs. Lincoln probably had a new
  experience in sleeping for the first time in her life in a tent." Bates
  recalled that the presidential party "attended the review of Cavalry&#x2014;in
  grand style . . . over 10.000 cavalry&#x2014;the grandest sight I ever saw." 
  <bibl default='NO'><title>Evening Star</title> (Washington, DC), 7 April 1863,
  2:1; Howard K. Beale, ed, <title>The Diary of Edward Bates 1859-1866</title>
  (Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1933),
  287-288.</bibl> </p> <p> Receives March salary warrant for $2,022.33. 
  <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='1863-04-07'>Tuesday, April 7, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.3167, -77.4667' teiForm='name'>Falmouth, VA</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President authorizes Asst. Sec. Watson to perform duties of secretary 
of war in absence of 
<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%3A355' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Authorization for Peter H. Watson</xref>, 7 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:165.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At Gen. Sickles' headquarters for review of troops President receives 
kiss from Princess Salm-Salm, whose husband is colonel with New York 
regiment.
<bibl default='NO'>Philippe R&#233;gis D. Trobriand, <title>Four Years with the Army of the Potomac</title> (Boston: Ticknor, 1889), 427; N.Y. Tribune, 21 May 1899.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-04-08'>Wednesday, April 8, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.3167, -77.4667' teiForm='name'>Falmouth, VA</place>. </dateline>
  <p> During a visit to the Army of the Potomac's headquarters, President Lincoln
  "reviews . . . some sixty thousand men," representing four infantry corps.
  Journalist Noah Brooks accompanies Lincoln's party, and recalls, "[I]t was a
  splendid sight to witness their grand martial array as they wound over hills
  and rolling ground, coming from miles around . . . The President expressed
  himself as delighted with the appearance of the soldiery . . . It was
  noticeable that the President merely touched his hat in return salute to the
  officers, but uncovered to the men in the ranks." <bibl default='NO'>Noah
  Brooks, <title corresp='books_Brooks2'>Washington in Lincoln's Time</title>
  (New York: Rinehart &amp; Company, 1958), 51-55.</bibl> </p> <p> Telegraphs
  Sec. Welles that Richmond papers report: 1. "'Important movements are taking
  place here; but for military reasons no particulars can yet be telegraphed;'"
  2. "'On yesterday morning eight Monitors and ironclads were off the bar at
  Charleston. . . . May Heaven shield Charleston from all the rage of her enemies
  and ours.' " <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%3A357' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 8
  April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:165-66.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-09'>Thursday, April 9, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.3167, -77.4667' teiForm='name'>Falmouth, VA</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President reviews I Corps. Plans to review three more corps.
<bibl default='NO'>Brooks, <title corresp='books_Brooks2'>Washington</title>, 50; Washington Star, 10 April 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Sec. Welles editorial from Richmond "Whig" regarding 
military situation at Charleston.
<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%3A358' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 9 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:166-67.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-10'>Friday, April 10, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.3167, -77.4667' teiForm='name'>Falmouth, VA</place>, <place key='38.5167, -77.6000' teiForm='name'>Aquia Creek, VA</place>, and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President reviews XI and XII Corps and visits Gen. Oliver O. Howard's 
headquarters before leaving for Aquia Creek.
<bibl default='NO'>Brooks, <title corresp='books_Brooks2'>Washington</title>, 51; National Intelligencer, 14 April 1863; Oliver O. Howard, "Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln," <title>Century Magazine</title> 75 (1908):875.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Invites Gens. Sickles and Schurz to accompany party to Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>Noah Brooks, "Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln," <title>Scribner's Monthly</title> 15 (1877/1878):674.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Leaves Aquia Creek on board "Carrie Martin" in afternoon and arrives 
home about midnight.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 11 April 1863; Washington Star, 11 April 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-04-11'>Saturday, April 11, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President calls morning meeting of Secs. Welles, Seward, Chase,
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person> , Asst. Sec. Fox, and
  Gen. Halleck to discuss general military situation. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> Group which
  returned from Gen. Hooker's headquarters together has dinner with President at
  White House. Gen. Schurz converses privately with Lincoln, who thinks Schurz
  cannot "forget that he is an adopted citizen of the country." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Noah Brooks, "Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,"
  <title>Scribner's Monthly</title> 15 (1877/1878):674.</bibl> </p> <p> President
  refuses request of Schurz to have his division separated from Army of Potomac. 
  <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%3A361' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Carl Schurz</xref>, 11
  April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:168.</bibl> </p> <p>
  In evening, President Lincoln attends the Washington Theater to watch British
  burlesque actress Matilda Vining Wood portray "Pocahontas." A newspaper
  reports, "President Lincoln was present and laughed some." A critic once
  wrote, "Mrs. Wood is one of the few artists to whom it is impossible to be
  indifferent. The moment her voice is heard from the wing, the ear is attent,
  and when her saucy face appears, all eyes are . . . watchful lest they miss the
  comical, or impudent, or ludicrous, or mock-heroic byplay, which radiates over
  her features." <bibl default='NO'><title>Evening Star</title> (Washington, DC),
  13 April 1863, 1:4, 2:1; Barnard Hewitt, "Mrs. John Wood and the Lost Art of
  Burlesque Acting," <title>Educational Theatre Journal</title> 13, no. 2 (May
  1961): 82-85.</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> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-12'>Sunday, April 12, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln invites Dr. Henry to White House for breakfast.
<bibl default='NO'>Anson G. Henry to wife, 12 April 1863, Anson G. Henry Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 visit Navy Dept. about noon for report on 
naval action at Charleston. Between 2 and 3 P.M. Sec. Welles receives 
word of Rear Adm. Du Pont's failure to capture Charleston and goes 
immediately to White House with news.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln acknowledges receipt of Gen. Hooker's letter by hand of Gen. 
Daniel Butterfield. Hooker proposes to cross Rappahannock and move 
against enemy as soon as cavalry gets between Richmond and enemy to 
block his retreat. Cavalry marches on 13th.
<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%3A363' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 12 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:169.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-13'>Monday, April 13, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President congratulates Frederic, Grand Duke of Baden, on marriage of 
Prince William of Baden.
<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%3A366' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Frederic, Grand Duke of Baden</xref>, 13 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:170-71.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders Rear Adm. Du Pont to hold his position inside bar near Charleston.
<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%3A365' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel F. Du Pont</xref>, 13 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:170.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In conversation with Sen. Sumner (Mass.), seems more hopeful for 
outcome of expedition to Charleston.
<bibl default='NO'>Pierce, <title corresp='books_Pierce'>Sumner Memoir and Letters</title>, 4:133.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-14'>Tuesday, April 14, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln explains to former Cong. Bouligny (La.) why promised 
appointment as surveyor of Port of New Orleans was not confirmed.
<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%3A370' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John E. Bouligny</xref>, 14 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:172-73.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders Gen. Hunter and Rear Adm. Du Pont to keep up demonstration 
against Charleston "for a time."
<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%3A372' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to David Hunter and Samuel F. Du Pont</xref>, 14 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:173-74.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gen. Hooker: "Would like to have a letter from you as soon 
as convenient."
<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%3A371' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 14 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:173.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-15'>Wednesday, April 15, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Mayor Wallach (Washington) and committee from school board of 
Washington confer with President on granting scholarships to service 
academies to students in public schools of that city.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 16 April 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President calls Sen. Sumner (Mass.) to White House for conference on 
resolution regarding slavery that might shape English public opinion 
in favor of U.S. 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%3A377' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Resolution on Slavery</xref>, [15 April 1863], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:176-77.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends note: "Hon. Sec. of Treasury, please give Louis [Bargdorf, 
doorkeeper at White House], whom you know, an audience of a few 
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%3A374' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 15 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:175.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Expresses uneasiness over progress of cavalry under Gen. Stoneman: "I 
do not know that any better can be done, but I greatly fear it is 
another failure already."
<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%3A376' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 15 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:175-76.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-04-16'>Thursday, April 16, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President cancels contract with B. Kock "for
  immigration of persons of African extraction to a dependency of the Republic of
  Hayti." <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%3A381' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
  Cancelling Contract with Bernard Koch</xref>, 16 April 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:178-79.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Mil. Gov.
  Johnson introduces Judge John S. Brien of Nashville to President. <bibl default='NO'>Johnson
  to Lincoln, 17 April 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> John Hay writes
  from Hilton Head, S.C., regarding attitude of Gen. Hunter and Rear Adm. Du Pont
  toward President's order of 13th. Hay is on assignment to deliver Sec. Welles'
  order of April 2, 1863. <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%3A372' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to David Hunter and Samuel F. Du Pont</xref>, 14 April 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:173-74.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  writes memorandum concerning patronage in St. Louis. Editor of Missouri
  "Democrat" appointed postmaster. Party divides into factions. "I have stoutly
  tried to keep out of the quarrel, and so mean to 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%3A380' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum
  Concerning Patronage in St. Louis, Missouri</xref>, 16 April 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:178.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-17'>Friday, April 17, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-18'>Saturday, April 18, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President authorizes Asst. Sec. Harrington to discharge duties of 
secretary of treasury in absence of 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%3A384' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Appointment of George Harrington</xref>, 18 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:179-80.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles discusses with President letter he wrote to Sec. Seward 
on handling mails.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Surrenders confiscated mails to President under protest.
<bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 304.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President recognizes Johannes Schumacher as consul of Free Hanse City 
of Bremen at Boston.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 22 April 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Heintzelman, with wife and daughter, spends evening at White 
House with <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> who tells Mrs. Heintzelman that Charles 
Heintzelman will go to West Point.
<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='1863-04-19'>Sunday, April 19, 1863.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.5167, -77.6000' teiForm='name'>Aquia Creek, VA</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"The President and Halleck went down to the Army very privately 
yesterday leaving here before daylight, and returning the same 
night." "Castine" [Noah Brooks], Washington, April 20, 1863, in 
Sacramento Union, May 18, 1863. "The President and the Secretary of 
War went off on a reconnaissance yesterday, I suppose to Aquia Creek, 
but returned in the evening. What they did or saw has not transpired."
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Hay, 20 April 1863, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-04-20'>Monday, April 20, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President promises Mrs. James E. Dunawin that application for
  pardon of husband will have attention of attorney 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%3A386' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward Bates</xref>, 20
  April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:180.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Issues proclamation admitting West Virginia into 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%3A388' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Admitting West Virginia into
  the Union</xref>, 20 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:181; Washington Star, 21 April 1863.</bibl> </p> <p> Delphy Carlin, of St.
  Louis, sees President and asks that son be so employed as to avoid facing in
  battle his brother in Confederate army. <bibl default='NO'>Carlin to Lincoln,
  21 April 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p><p>President Lincoln gives a
  "full and unconditional pardon" to John Cunningham, who is serving eight years
  in prison after a Washington, D. C. court "convicted [him] on two indictments
  for assault with intent to kill." Lincoln notes that Cunningham "was but
  eighteen" when he committed the crime, and "his widowed mother is in distress
  for want of his supporting care." Further, "the inspectors of the penitentiary,
  the Mayor of Washington, and other citizens have petitioned me in his behalf." 
  <bibl>Pardon of John Cunningham, 20 April 1863, The Lincoln Museum, Ft. Wayne,
  IN.</bibl></p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-21'>Tuesday, April 21, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. "Only some light matters came before" it.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President sends congratulations to Frederic VII, King of Denmark, on 
marriage to Princess Alexandra to Prince of Wales.
<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%3A391' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Frederic VII</xref>, 21 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:182-83.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Ask Secs. Seward and Welles for information to help decide practical 
question of proper disposition of government mail of a neutral power 
found on board vessel captured by belligerent power.
<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%3A392' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward and Gideon Welles</xref>, 21 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:183-84.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-04-22'>Wednesday, April 22, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Edward Stanly, former military governor of North Carolina,
  interviews President on behalf of Gen. Foster. <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%3A393' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning John G.
  Foster</xref>, 22 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:184.</bibl> </p> <p> [Irwin withdraws $2,000 from Springfield Marine Bank,
  loan to himself. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>] </p><p>Lincoln
  writes to fellow Republican, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, on
  behalf of Mary Lincoln. Lincoln explains, "Mrs. L. is embarrassed a little. She
  would be pleased to have your company again this evening, at the Opera, but she
  fears she may be taxing you. I have undertaken to clear up the little
  difficulty. If, for any reason, it will tax you, decline, without any
  hesitation; but if it will not, consider yourself already invited, and drop me
  a note." <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%3A396' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles Sumner</xref>,
  22 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:185.</bibl> </p> 
  <p> Answers inquiry of Gen. Rosecrans at Murfreesboro, Tenn.: "I really
  <uLine>can not</uLine> say that I have heard any complaints of 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%3A400' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William S.
  Rosecrans</xref>, 22 [23] April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:186.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-23'>Thursday, April 23, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President allegedly attends spiritualist seance in White House. 
Nothing happens until Lincoln leaves. Then spirits pinch 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
's ears and tweak Sec. Welles' beard.
<bibl default='NO'>Elizabeth Lindsey, "Observance of the Lincoln Centennial," <title>Lincoln Herald</title> 59 (Fall 1957):14.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President commutes one, and approves another, of two sentences to 
shoot soldiers for desertion.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 23 April 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Commends former Cong. Segar (Va.) for showing interest in section of 
Emancipation Proclamation pertaining to "Eastern Shore of Virginia."
<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%3A401' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Segar</xref>, 23 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:186-87.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-24'>Friday, April 24, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-25'>Saturday, April 25, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Francis L. Capen, "Certified Practical Meteorologist &amp; Expert in 
Computing the Changes of the Weather," interviews Lincoln for job as 
weather consultant for War Dept.
<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%3A411' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning Francis L. Capen's Weather Forecasts</xref>, 28 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:190-91.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-26'>Sunday, April 26, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President at Navy Bureau of Ordnance in morning talks to Rear Adm. 
Dahlgren and reads late telegrams.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-27'>Monday, April 27, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gov. Thomas Carney (Kans.) sees President, requests removal of Col. 
James M. Williams, and complains of interference by Gen. James G. 
Blunt in election at Leavenworth, Kans.
<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%3A405' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James H. Lane</xref>, 27 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:188.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles delivers his letter on subject of captured mails to President.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 3:30 P.M. Lincoln telegraphs Gen. Hooker: "How does it look now?"
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A404' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 27 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:188.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-04-28'>Tuesday, April 28, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President reassures Gov. Curtin (Pa.): "I do not think the
  people of Pennsylvania should be uneasy about an invasion." <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%3A409' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew G.
  Curtin</xref>, 28 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:189.</bibl> </p> <p> Cabinet meets. President engaged in selecting provost
  marshals. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p>President Lincoln
  annotates a letter from Francis Capen, who claims to be a "Certified Practical
  Meteorologist&#x2014;&amp; Expert in Computing the Changes of the Weather."
  Capen assures that his weather-forecasting talent will benefit the War
  Department. Lincoln writes, "It seems . . . Mr. Capen knows nothing about the
  weather, in advance. He told me three days ago that it would not rain again
  till the 30th. of April or 1st. of May. It is raining now &amp; has been for
  ten hours. I can not spare any more time to Mr. Capen." <bibl default='NO'>
  Francis L. Capen to Abraham Lincoln, 25 April 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%3A411' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning Francis L. Capen's
  Weather Forecasts</xref>, 28 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:190-91.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln visits
  Navy Ordnance Bureau to settle claim of Horatio Ames of Connecticut regarding
  contract for big guns. <bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 236-37.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-04-29'>Wednesday, April 29, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President requests former Gov. Newell (N.J.) to adjust trouble
  about provost marshal or come to 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%3A412' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William A.
  Newell</xref>, 29 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:191.</bibl> </p><p>President Lincoln writes to the commanding officer at Fort
  Randall, Dakota Territory, and requests consideration for John B. S. Todd, who
  is related to Lincoln's wife, Mary. After recently completing a term as
  delegate in Congress, Todd prepares to return to the Dakota Territory. Lincoln
  directs, "[G]ive him &amp; his family such protection as you properly can in
  the event it becomes necessary. You will also afford them such facilities for
  crossing &amp; recrossing the river there as are usually employed." 
  <bibl>Abraham Lincoln to Commanding Officer at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory,
  29 April 1863, Inserted in John Fiske, The Presidents of America, Massachusetts
  Historical Society, Boston, MA.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-04-30'>Thursday, April 30, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is notified that he has been made life
  member of Chicago Young Men's Christian Association, someone having contributed
  $100 on his behalf. <bibl default='NO'>Jacobs to Lincoln, 30 April 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes Gen. Hunter to restore Capt. David Schaadt, Co. D,
  176th Pennsylvania Regiment, if there is no evidence but his refusal to
  sanction resolution endorsing Emancipation Proclamation. <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%3A413' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to David Hunter</xref>, 30 April 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:191-92.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>