<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-01'>Friday, May 1, 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>
         <p>
President dominates supervision of Army of Potomac.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Believes enemy in no position to invade Pennsylvania and so informs 
Gov. Curtin (Pa.).
<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%3A416' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew G. Curtin</xref>, 1 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:193.</bibl>
         </p>
         <quote>
            <p>
[Battle of Chancellorsville, Va. begins and continues until May 4, 1863.]
</p>
         </quote>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-02'>Saturday, May 2, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cong. Davis (Md.) interviews President regarding article in Baltimore 
"American" on Rear Adm. Du Pont's unsuccessful attack on Charleston.
<bibl default='NO'>Davis to Lincoln, 4 May 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
During past week gentleman called on President and asked for pass to 
Richmond. "Well," said President, "I would be very happy to oblige 
you, if my passes were respected; but the fact is, sir, I have, 
within the past two years given passes to 250,000 men to go to 
Richmond, and not one has got there yet."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 2 May 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gov. Curtin (Pa.) that Gen. Schenck says the enemy 
menacing Pennsylvania will have to fight or run today. "I really do 
not yet see the justification for incurring the trouble and expense 
of calling out the militia. I shall keep watch and try to do my duty."
<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%3A423' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew G. Curtin</xref>, 2 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:195.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-03'>Sunday, May 3, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
During Battle of Chancellorsville President telegraphs Gen. 
Butterfield: "Where is Gen. Hooker? Where is [Gen. John] Sedgwick? 
where is Stoneman?"
<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%3A425' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Daniel Butterfield</xref>, 3 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:196.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In afternoon Lincoln meets with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 and Gens. Halleck and 
Heintzelman at War Dept. They are alarmed about Orange and Alexandria 
Railroad.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln at telegraph office with Asst. Sec. Fox in evening until 11 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"We [President and associates] know very little about what has been 
accomplished."
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 3 May 1863, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-04'>Monday, May 4, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sec. Welles meets President in afternoon at War Dept. where they 
await news from Chancellorsville, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"We [includes President] have been in a terrible suspense here for 
two days as the result of a battle which Joe Hooker is fighting on 
the Rappahannock."
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 4 May 1863, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln telegraphs Hooker 3:10 P.M.: "We have news here that the 
enemy has reoccupied heights above Fredericksburg. Is that so?"
<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%3A427' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 4 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:196.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-05'>Tuesday, May 5, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. President reads telegram from Gen. Hooker admitting 
that Confederates hold works on heights of Fredericksburg, Va. Little 
else of importance.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In afternoon Sen. Sumner (Mass.) and Sec. Welles at Navy Dept. 
discuss army under Hooker. President arrives at department and joins 
discussion.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives April 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='1863-05-06'>Wednesday, May
  6, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place> and <place key='38.3167, -77.4667' teiForm='name'>Falmouth, VA</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> President sends for Asst. Sec. Fox before breakfast. Asks him
  to take Richmond newspapers to Gen. Hooker's headquarters. <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary,
  Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  9:40 A.M. Lincoln telegraphs Hooker: "God bless you, and all with you. I know
  you will do your best." 11:40 A.M. Lincoln to Hooker: "We have, through Gen.
  Dix, the contents of Richmond papers of the fifth (5th). Gen. Dix's despatch in
  full, is going to you by Capt. Fox of the Navy." 12:30 P.M. Lincoln to Hooker:
  "Just as I had telegraphed you contents of Richmond papers, showing that our
  cavalry has not failed, I received General Butterfield's of 11 a.m. yesterday.
  This, with the great rain of yesterday and last night, securing your right
  flank, I think puts a new face upon your case; but you must be the judge." 4:30
  P.M. Hooker to Lincoln: "Have this moment returned to camp. On my way received
  your telegrams of 11 a.m. and 12.30. The army had previously recrossed the
  river, and was on its return to camp. . . . I saw no way of giving the enemy a
  general battle with the prospect of success." <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%3A432' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 6 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:198-99;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A433' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 6 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:199;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A434' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 6 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:199-200.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> About 3 P.M.
  President receives news from Chancellorsville, Va., and leaves at 4 P.M. for
  army, taking Gen. Halleck with him. <bibl default='NO'>Brooks,
  <title corresp='books_Brooks2'>Washington</title>, 56.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sen.
  Sumner (Mass.) visits White House and President informs him of defeat at
  Chancellorsville. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-07'>Thursday, May 7, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.3167, -77.4667' teiForm='name'>Falmouth, VA</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and Gen. Halleck spend day with Gen. Hooker and Army of Potomac.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 8 May 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: "Have you any news? and if any what is it? I 
expect to be up to-night."
<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%3A438' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 7 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:201.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln back in Washington tonight from visit to Army of Potomac. 
Thinks "troops are none the worse for the campaign."
<bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; "Castine" [Noah Brooks], Washington, 8 May 1863, in Sacramento Union, 5 June 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Mrs. Blair and friends visit <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President writes Hooker: "The recent movement of your army is ended 
without effecting its object. . . . What next? Have you already in 
your mind a plan wholly, or partially formed? If you have, prosecute 
it without interference from me. If you have not, please inform me, 
so that I, incompetent as I may be, can try [to] assist in the 
formation of some plan for the 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%3A437' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 7 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:201.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-08'>Friday, May 8, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President by proclamation orders that no plea of alienage be allowed 
to exempt from military service any person who has declared his 
intention to become citizen of U.S.
<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%3A443' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Concerning Aliens</xref>, 8 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:203-4.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Gen. August Willich, exchanged prisoner from 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%3A442' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 8 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:202-3.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders U.S. marshal for northern district of California to deliver 
New Almaden mining property to Leonard Swett, agent for U.S.
<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%3A444' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles W. Rand</xref>, 8 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:205-6.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests Asst. Sec. Watson to act upon case of Peckham's patent 
rifles and self-loading cartridges.
<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%3A445' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Peter H. Watson</xref>, 8 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:206.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At cabinet meeting Sec. Welles reports capture of Grand Gulf, Miss., 
by Acting Rear Adm. Porter.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Inscribes Bible "For Charles W. Merrill of 19th Massachusetts."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:515.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-05-09'>Saturday, May
  9, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  interviews Gen. Sigel regarding assignment. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>,
  10 May 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives report of Capt. Diller that 1,000 pounds
  of new gunpowder is ready for trial at Frankford Arsenal, Pa. <bibl default='NO'>Diller
  report to Lincoln, 31 October 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham
  Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Walks to
  Treasury Park with <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> to watch
  demonstration of liquid fire by A. Berney. <bibl default='NO'>Bruce,
  <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 238.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Directs
  Gen. Dix: "It is very important for Hooker to know exactly what damage is done
  to the Railroads, at all points between Fredericksburg and Richmond. . . .
  Please ascertain fully what was done, &amp; what is the present condition, as
  near as you can, and advise me at once." <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%3A448' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John A. Dix</xref>, 9 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:207.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-10'>Sunday, May 10, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President announces provost marshals for Maryland appointed under act 
of March 3, 1863.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 20 May 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-11'>Monday, May 11, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives "first offer of resignation" from Sec. Chase.
<bibl default='NO'>Donald, <title corresp='books_Donald'>Chase Diaries</title>, 30.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Again concludes to relieve Gen. Curtis of command at St. Louis.
<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%3A456' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 11 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:210-11.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 12 M. receives Lord Lyons with announcement of marriage of Prince of Wales.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 8 May 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests Sec. Welles to call at White House and read two dispatches 
regarding naval matters written by Sec. Seward to Lord Lyons.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Inquires of Gen. Dix: "Do the Richmond papers have anything about 
Grand Gulf or Vicksburg?"
<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%3A455' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. Dix</xref>, 11 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:210.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-12'>Tuesday, May 12, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Dr. John Swinburne of New York and assistant, J. T. Gillett, call on 
President and volunteer services to 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%3A459' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Horatio Seymour</xref>, 12 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:211.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President receives from Gen. Hooker's staff confirmation of Gen. 
"Stonewall" Jackson's death on May 10, 1863.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 13 May 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-05-13'>Wednesday, May 13, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln offers "my sincere
  sympathy and condolence" to Peruvian nation on death of President Miguel San
  Roman. <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%3A463' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Pedro Diez Canseco</xref>, 13 May 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:212-13.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President
  Lincoln writes to the <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Secretary of War Edwin
  Stanton</person> about Clement Vallandigham, of Ohio. On May 5, Major General
  Ambrose Burnside arrested Vallandigham on a charge of treason. Lincoln ponders
  the government's next move. The <person teiForm='name'>Secretary of State William
  Seward</person> and the <person teiForm='name'>Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase</person>
  "think we better not issue the special suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
  spoken of." Chase believes that neither of the two federal judges who may hear
  the case will "issue" the writ because they had "refused a similar application
  last year." <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%3A470' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 13 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:215.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes Gen.
  Hooker: "If it will not interfere with the service, nor personally incommode
  you, please come up and see me this evening." <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%3A469' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 13 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:215.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Hooker at White
  House in evening on invitation of President. <bibl default='NO'>Hooker to Lincoln, 13 May
  1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes Sec. Chase: "I
  understand there are, or have been, some charges against Lieutenant [James H.]
  Merryman [of Revenue Service], of which I know nothing. I only wish to say, he
  was raised from childhood in the town where I lived, and I remember nothing
  against him as boy or man. His father [Dr. Elias H. Merryman, involved with
  Lincoln in his imbroglio with Shields. See Sept. 19, 1842.], now dead, was a
  very intimate acquaintance and friend of mine." <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%3A465' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 13 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:214.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs Gen.
  Totten: "I wish to appoint William Whipple, son of the General who fell in the
  recent battle on the Rappahannock, to West-Point, next Spring, and I wish to
  file this with you as a remembrance upon the subject." <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%3A472' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph G. Totten</xref>, 13 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:216.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-05-14'>Thursday, May 14, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President Lincoln writes to Major General Joseph
  Hooker about military strategy. Due to the fact that the Confederate forces
  "hav[e] re-established...communications, regained...positions and...received
  re-inforcements," Lincoln surmises, "it does not now appear probable to me that
  you can gain any thing by an early renewal of the attempt to cross the
  Rappahannock [River]." Lincoln also confides, "I must tell you I have some
  painful intimations that some of your corps and Division Commanders are not
  giving you their entire confidence. This would be ruinous, if true." <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%3A474' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 14 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:217-18.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-15'>Friday, May 15, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President visits Sec. Welles to discuss Lord Lyons' dispatch 
concerning confiscated mails.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Announces renewal of Saturday concerts of Marine band on White House grounds.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 15 May 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"The President has been closeted for two hours today with Gen. 
Sickles, Commander of the Third army corps."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 16 May 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives deputation from Union League of Philadelphia and accepts 
invitation to attend exercises commemorating anniversary of American 
Independence on July 4, 1863.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 18 May 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits $75 in Springfield Marine Bank, interest on Cline note.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
President addresses letter to H. T. Blow, Charles D. Drake, and 
others at St. Louis: "It is very painful to me that you in Missouri 
can not, or will not, settle your factional quarrel among yourselves. 
I have been tormented with it beyond endurance for months, by both 
sides. Neither side pays the least respect to my appeals to your 
reason. I am now compelled to take hold of the case."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A475' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry T. Blow, Charles D. Drake and Others</xref>, 15 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:218.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-16'>Saturday, May 16, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President, accompanied by Secs. Seward and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
, leaves Navy Yard 
about 11 A.M. for trip down Potomac to inspect troop transports.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs secretary of war to instruct Gen. Burnside to parole Maj. 
Clarence Prentice (CSA), rebel prisoner in Camp Chase, Ohio, "to 
remain outside the limits of both the loyal and disloyal States, or 
so-called 'Confederate States' of the United States of America, 
during the present rebellion."
<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%3A478' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 16 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:219-20.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-17'>Sunday, May 17, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President drives to office of Rear Adm. Dahlgren at Navy Yard; later 
Dahlgren returns to town with him.
<bibl default='NO'>Extracts from Dahlgren Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cong. George S. Boutwell (Mass.) meets President on White House steps 
and goes upstairs with him to locate on map Gen. Grant's position in 
rear of Vicksburg, Miss., after crossing Black River today.
<bibl default='NO'>George S. Boutwell, <title>Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs</title>, 2 vols.  (New York: McClure, Phillips, 1902), 2:307.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln declares Judge H. H. Leavitt's denial of motion for habeas 
corpus in Vallandigham case is equal to three victories in field. 
[Writ denied May 16, 1863.]
<bibl default='NO'>Harper, <title corresp='books_Harper'>Press</title>, 243.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-18'>Monday, May 18, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President congratulates Victoria, Queen of United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, on marriage of 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%3A484' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Queen Victoria</xref>, 18 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:222.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Chase tells Lincoln that Abrahm Hiatt's commission will go forward.
<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%3A488' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin D. Morgan</xref>, 20 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:224.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-19'>Tuesday, May 19, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President proclaims convention with Peru whereby settlement will be 
made on two captured ships.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 29 May 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-20'>Wednesday, May 20, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President pardons Albert Horn, convicted upon charge of fitting out 
vessel to engage in slave trade.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 21 May 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-05-21'>Thursday, May
  21, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  withholds permission for Col. James F. Jaquess, 73d Illinois Regiment and
  Methodist minister, to visit 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%3A491' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 21 May 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:225.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Calls upon
  Sec. Welles with protest that American vessels are annoying neutral shipping
  off coast of Cuba. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Committee with petition
  on behalf of Gen. C. S. Hamilton, signed by 23 senators and 84 representatives,
  waits upon President. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official
  Records&#8212;Armies</title> 1, XI, pt. 3, 185.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-05-22'>Friday, May 22, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> In the afternoon, President Lincoln is in the East Room of the
  White House, where he meets with "20 or 30 one-legged soldiers." Chaplain J. C.
  Richmond accompanies the St. Elizabeth's Hospital veterans, and he notes,
  "These maimed heroes, sir, are eloquent without uttering a word. The limbs that
  are absent speak more loudly than the arms and legs that are here." A newspaper
  reports, "The President shook hands with all of them, calling them 'my boys,'
  and congratulating them on their brave and noble deeds." <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%3A493' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  to "The One-Legged Brigade"</xref>, 22 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:226-27; <title>Daily National
  Intelligencer</title> (Washington, D.C.), 25 May 1863, 1:6; <title>Chicago
  Daily Tribune</title> (IL), 23 May 1863, 1:2.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President Lincoln
  writes to commanding officer for the District of Memphis Major General Stephen
  A. Hurlbut, and reports on what he is reading in the "Richmond [Virginia]
  newspapers" about the battles taking place near Vicksburg, Mississippi.
  Confederate Generals John C. Pemberton, William W. Loring, and Joseph E.
  Johnston, whom Lincoln mistakenly refers to as "Johnson," are trying to defend
  Vicksburg against Union General Ulysses S. Grant's attacks. Lincoln writes,
  "Grant beat Pemberton &amp; Loring near Edwards' Station, at the end of a nine
  hours fight, driving Pemberton over the Big Black [Bridge] &amp; cutting Loring
  off, &amp; driving him South to Chrystal-Springs...Joe Johnson telegraphed all
  this, except about Loring, from his camp between Brownsville &amp; Lexington,
  on the 18th." <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%3A492' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Stephen A. Hurlbut</xref>, 22 May 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:226.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-23'>Saturday, May 23, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President in conference at War Dept. with Secs. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 and Welles, 
Asst. Sec. Fox, and Gen. Halleck regarding attack on Charleston.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Authorizes 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 to confer with W. Butler, former state treasurer 
of Illinois, "and see if something definite can not be done in the 
case" of state claims against Illinois Central Railroad, and claims 
of railroad against U.S.
<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%3A495' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 23 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:227-28.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-24'>Sunday, May 24, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
J. R. Gilmore reports to President on recent trip to Gen. Rosecrans' headquarters 
in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Trip made at behest of Horace Greeley to 
measure Rosecrans' fitness to succeed Lincoln as President.
<bibl default='NO'>James R. Gilmore, <title>Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War</title> (Boston: Page, 1898), 148.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In company with Sen. Doolittle (Wis.) Lincoln visits three principal 
hospitals and shakes hands with 1,000 soldiers.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 26 May 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Inquires of Col. Anson Stager about report of William G. Fuller at 
Memphis, Tenn., regarding capture of Vicksburg, Miss. "Did he 
<uLine>know</uLine> what he said, or did he say it without knowing 
it? Your despatch of this afternoon throws doubt upon it."
<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%3A497' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Anson Stager</xref>, 24 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:228-29.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-25'>Monday, May 25, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President visits number of hospitals in and around city.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 27 May 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-05-26'>Tuesday, May 26, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p>President Lincoln writes to Illinois Congressman Isaac N.
  Arnold, who had criticized General Halleck Henry W. Halleck, who oversees the
  Union military. Arnold claimed that the public had "lost...confidence" in
  Halleck, and many believed that Halleck's "hostility" caused other generals to
  leave "public service." Lincoln replies, "I am compelled to take a more
  impartial and unprejudiced view of things. Without claiming to be your
  superior, which I do not, my position enables me to understand my duty in all
  these matters better than you possibly can, and I hope you do not yet doubt my
  integrity." <bibl default='NO'>Isaac N. Arnold to Abraham Lincoln, 18 May 1863, Abraham
  Lincoln Papers, Series 1, General Correspondence 1833-1916, Library of
  Congress, Washington, D. C.;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A501' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Isaac N. Arnold</xref>, 26 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:230-31.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> There seems to be
  a "kind of council of war" in session at White House. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet discusses release of man condemned as
  spy. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-05-27'>Wednesday, May 27, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President explains why he appointed Gen. Schofield
  to command of Dept. of the Missouri. <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%3A511' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John M. Schofield</xref>, 27 May 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:234.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Recognizes
  Christian Bars as consul of Netherlands for Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and
  New Hampshire. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 29 May 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs
  Gen. Hooker: "Have you Richmond papers of this morning? If so, what news?" Asks
  Gen. Rosecrans: "Have you anything from Grant? Where is [Gen. Nathan B.]
  Forrest's [(CSA)] Head Quarters?" <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%3A508' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 27 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:233;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A509' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 27 May 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:233.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-28'>Thursday, May 28, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen. McDougall (Calif.) calls and asks that Maj. Kip may be made 
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%3A515' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Lawrence Kip</xref>, 28 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:236.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President confers again with J. R. Gilmore and declines to give 
official countenance to Col. Jaquess' project to try to arrange a 
peace.
<bibl default='NO'>James R. Gilmore, <title>Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War</title> (Boston: Page, 1898), 155-56.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Authorizes Gen. Rosecrans to give Jacquess furlough to go into 
Confederate territory to seek out members of Methodist Church and 
others opposed to war and to arrange terms for their return to 
allegiance which would be acceptable to 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%3A517' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 28 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:236.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-29'>Friday, May 29, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Burnside expresses to President willingness to be relieved of 
command following arrest of former Cong. Vallandigham (Ohio) if 
interest of public service requires it. President supports Burnside.
<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%3A519' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ambrose E. Burnside</xref>, 29 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:237.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 visit Navy Yard to observe firing of Ferris gun.
<bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 239-40.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-05-30'>Saturday, May 30, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p>At 10 o'clock in the morning, U.S. Senator Charles
  Sumner, of Massachusetts, introduces a "Committee from New-York" to President
  Lincoln. The Committee is "confident that a force of at least 10.000" black
  "citizens" would "volunteer for the Service" if they could have General John C.
  Fremont as their commanding officer. A newspaper reports, "The President
  declared that he would gladly receive into the service not ten thousand but ten
  times ten thousand colored troops; expressed his determination to protect all
  who enlisted, and said that he looked to them for essential service in
  finishing the war. He believed that the command of them afforded scope for the
  highest ambition, and he would with all his heart offer it to 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%3A523' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  to New York Committee</xref>, 30 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:239; <title>New York Daily
  Tribune</title>, 1 June 1863, 4:6; New York City Citizens Committee to Abraham
  Lincoln, 28 May 1863, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  D.C.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Discusses with Sen. Sumner (Mass.) problems of raising and
  organizing Negro troops in North. <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%3A532' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Charles Sumner</xref>, 1 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:242-44.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-05-31'>Sunday, May 31, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln answers inquiry: "I esteem [former] Gov. Francis Thomas 
[Md.], as an able, and very true man."
<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%3A524' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 31 May 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:239.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>