<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <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&#8212;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> Writes Gen. Hunter: "I am
  glad to see the accounts of your colored force at Jacksonville, Florida. . . .
  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'>
         <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 notifies Gen. Hooker of plans to visit Army of Potomac for 
few days, leaving Washington Saturday, April 4, 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%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'>
         <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>
At 10 A.M. receives officers of Army of Potomac at his tent. Reviews 
cavalry under Gen. George Stoneman at noon. Is serenaded by army band 
in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 7 April 1863.</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'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-04-08'>Wednesday, April 8, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.3167, -77.4667' teiForm='name'>Falmouth, VA</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President reviews II, III, V, and VI Corps, about 40,000 infantrymen.
<bibl default='NO'>Brooks, <title corresp='books_Brooks2'>Washington</title>, 49.</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'>
         <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 attends
  Washington Theatre for performance by Mrs. John Wood in "Pocahontas" and
  "laughs some." <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 13 April 1863.</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'>
         <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>
      </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'>
         <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>] Lincoln
  writes Sen. Sumner (Mass.): "Mrs. L. is embarrassed a little. She would be
  pleased to have your company again this evening, at the Opera [Washington
  Theatre, Bellini's "Norma"], but she fears she may be taxing you. . . . but if
  it will not, consider yourself already invited." <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'>
         <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>
Lincoln loses patience with weather forecaster: "It is raining now 
&amp; has been for ten hours. I can not spare any more time to Mr. 
Capen."
<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>
         <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'>
         <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>
      </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>