<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-01'>Monday, June 1, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 about enforcement of Gen. 
Burnside's Order No. 38 against seditious newspapers in Indiana.
<bibl default='NO'>Harper, <title corresp='books_Harper'>Press</title>, 261.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults Sen. Sumner (Mass.) again on proposal to raise Negro troops.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%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>
         <p>
Informs George F. Kelly, agent for California settlers having 
complaints against action of District Court of California involving 
land claims, that courts must decide land titles.
<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%3A530' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William T. Otto</xref>, 1 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:242.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives from Sec. Welles list of applicants for appointment to Naval Academy.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs Col. William H. Ludlow, agent for exchange of prisoners at 
Fortress Monroe, Va., to ascertain why A. D. Richardson and Junius 
Browne, correspondents of New York "Tribune," are detained at 
Richmond, and to "get them off if you can."
<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%3A529' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Ludlow</xref>, 1 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:241.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-06-02'>Tuesday, June
  2, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  replies to resolutions in support of administration adopted by General Assembly
  of Presbyterian Church. <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%3A535' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Members of the Presbyterian General Assembly</xref>, 2 June 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:244-45; Washington Star, 2 June
  1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Gen. John F. Reynolds about command of Army of
  Potomac. <bibl default='NO'>Edward J. Nichols, <title>Toward Gettysburg: A Biography of
  General John F. Reynolds</title> (University Park: Pennsylvania State
  University Press, 1958), 220.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet meets, discusses
  Vicksburg, Miss., campaign, and "confidence is expressed in Grant, but it seems
  that not enough was doing." <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln telegraphs Grant
  at Vicksburg: "Are you in communication with Gen. Banks? Is he coming towards
  you, or going further off? Is there, or has there been any thing to hinder his
  coming directly to you by water from Alexandria?" <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%3A533' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 2 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:244.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-03'>Wednesday, June 3, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
A. W. Thompson submits to President plan for organizing immigrants 
and Negroes into military units and employing them eight hours a day 
building railroads.
<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%3A538' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 3 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:246.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-04'>Thursday, June 4, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives complaints from Illinois political leaders against 
Gen. Burnside's Order No. 38 and revokes suspension of Chicago 
"Times" circulation.
<bibl default='NO'>Harper, <title corresp='books_Harper'>Press</title>, 261; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A544' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 4 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:248.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President, accompanied by <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and party, attends recitation 
from Shakespeare at private residence near Chain Bridge.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders Gen. Hooker to suspend execution of sentences in cases of Enos 
Daily, Philip Margraff, and Carlos Harrington of 146th New York 
Volunteers. Situation seems to be that recruits enlisting for six 
months are required to serve three years. "It is notorious among 
New-Yorkers that a regular system of deceit was practiced by 
recruiting officers."
<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%3A543' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 4 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:248.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-06-05'>Friday, June 5, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln discusses with Gen. Halleck telegram from Gen. Hooker
  concerning disposition of troops in opposition to Gen. R. E. Lee. <bibl default='NO'>U.S.
  Congress, Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, <title>Report of the Joint
  Committee on the Conduct of the War</title>, 3 vols., 38th Cong., 2d sess.
  (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1865), I, 249.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President Lincoln writes to Commander of the Army of the Potomac General Joseph
  Hooker, and offers a strategy to outmaneuver Confederate General Robert E. Lee:
  "In case you find Lee coming to the North of the Rappahannock [River], I would
  by no means cross to the South of it. . . . In one word, I would not take any risk
  of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence, and
  liable to be torn by dogs, front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one
  way or kick the other." <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%3A546' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 5 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:249-51.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Reads paper
  prepared in reply to Cong. "Erastus Corning [N.Y.] &amp; Others." <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Cong.
  Fernando Wood (N.Y.). <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 6 June 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Receives May salary warrant for $2,022.34. [Irwin deposits $350 in
  Springfield Marine Bank, rent from L. A. Tilton. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182, 165.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-06'>Saturday, June 6, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln sends anonymous letter to editor of Washington "Chronicle" to 
call attention to wrong information in article on Chicago "Times."
<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%3A547' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Anonymous Letter to the Editor of the Washington <title>Chronicle</title>
               </xref>, 6 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:251-52.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> sends White House flowers to Mrs. Fox.
<bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln informs Gen. Dix at Fortress Monroe, Va., of conditions at 
Vicksburg, Miss. While dispatches "show the siege progressing, they 
do not show any general fighting, since the 21st. and 22nd. We have 
nothing from Port-Hudson later than the 29th. when things looked 
reasonably well for us."
<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%3A549' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. Dix</xref>, 6 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:252.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-06-08'>Monday, June 8, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President instructs Sec. Welles to decide question of weekly
  performances of Marine band at White House. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> Sec. Chase reads
  to Lincoln letter from Benjamin H. Brewster, prominent Philadelphia lawyer, on
  Pennsylvania political situation. <bibl default='NO'>Chase to Brewster, 9 June
  1863, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> 
  <p> President accompanies <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person> and Tad to 3 P.M. train for Philadelphia. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 9 June 1863.</bibl> </p> <p> President Lincoln
  writes to Major General Samuel R. Curtis following Lincoln's removal of Curtis
  as commander of the Department of the Missouri. Curtis repeatedly clashed with
  Missouri Governor Hamilton R. Gamble. Lincoln writes, "It became almost a
  matter of personal self-defence to somehow break up the state of things in
  Missouri. I did not mean to cast any censure upon you, nor to indorse any of
  the charges made against you by others. With me the presumption is still in
  your favor that you are honest, capable, faithful, and patriotic." 
  <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%3A553' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel R.
  Curtis</xref>, 8 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:253-54.</bibl> </p> <p> Sends two dispatches to Gen. Dix: "We have despatches
  from Vicksburg of the 3rd. Siege progressing. No general fighting recently. All
  well." And: "The substance of the news sent of fight at Port-Hudson on the
  27th. we have had here three or four days. . . . We knew that Gen. Sherman was
  wounded. . . . We still have nothing of that Richmond newspaper story of [Gen.
  Edmund] Kirby Smith [(CSA)] crossing &amp; of Banks losing an arm." 
  <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%3A554' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. Dix</xref>, 8
  June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:254;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A555' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. Dix</xref>, 8
  June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:254.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-09'>Tuesday, June 9, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President telegraphs <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> in Philadelphia: "Think you better 
put 'Tad's' pistol away. I had an ugly dream about him."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A560' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 9 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:256.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-10'>Wednesday, June 10, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President forgets 12 M. appointment with Mr. Molina arranged by Sec. 
Seward [probably Luis Molina, minister from Nicaragua].
<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%3A563' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 10 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:258.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Accompanied by 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
, Gen. Heintzelman, and staff, visits Fort 
Lyon, Va. Explosion there yesterday did no serious damage.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 11 June 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Replies to dispatch of Gen. Hooker: "If left to me, I would not go 
South of the Rappahannock, upon Lee's moving North of it. . . . I 
think <uLine>Lee's</uLine> Army, and not <uLine>Richmond</uLine>, is 
your true objective 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%3A562' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 10 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:257-58.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-11'>Thursday, June 11, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President congratulates Jesus Jimenez on election to presidency of 
Republic of Costa Rica.
<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%3A567' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jesus Jimenez</xref>, 11 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:259-60.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> in Philadelphia: "Your three despatches 
received. I am very well; and am glad to know that you &amp; 'Tad' 
are 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%3A568' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 11 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:260.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Gen. Halleck on movement of troops under Gen. Hooker.
<bibl default='NO'>U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, <title>Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War</title>, 3 vols., 38th Cong., 2d sess. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1865), I, 255.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-12'>Friday, June 12, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President replies to resolutions of public meeting held at Albany, 
N.Y., in letter to "Hon. Erastus Corning &amp; Others." Differences 
exist in construing war powers of President under Constitution.
<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%3A569' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others</xref>, [12 June] 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:260-69.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Notifies Gen. Hooker of plan to join him at 5 P.M. tomorrow for trial 
of incendiary shells.
<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%3A572' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 12 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:270.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Visits Gen. Meigs' office to discuss Army of Potomac.
<bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Spends part of afternoon at War Dept.
<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='1863-06-13'>Saturday, June 13, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President thanks Leopold I, King of the Belgians, for acting as 
arbiter in U.S.S. "Macedonian" 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%3A576' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Leopold</xref>, 13 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:271-72.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 1 P.M. President and Gen. Meigs board tug for trip to Army of 
Potomac. Gen. Hooker telegraphs to postpone visit. Tug turns back at 
Alexandria, Va., and reaches Washington at 3:30 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs 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%3A575' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 13 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:271.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits $754.60 in Springfield Marine Bank, payment of Cline 
note and interest.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
Lincoln directs Sec. Welles: "Please allow the bearer, Mr. [Azel S.] 
Lyman, to take his new cannon into the Navy-Yard where I wish to see 
it fired next week."
<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%3A577' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 13 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:272.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-06-14'>Sunday, June 14, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> At 5:50 p.m., President Lincoln telegraphs commander of the
  Army of the Potomac Major General Joseph Hooker regarding defensive strategies
  on Virginia battlefields. Lincoln writes, "So far as we can make out here, the
  enemy have [General Robert] Milroy surrounded at Winchester, and [General
  Robert] Tyler at Martinsburg. . . . If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg
  and the tail of it on the Plank road between Fredericksburg and
  Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break
  him?" <bibl default='NO'>
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A580' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>,
  14 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:273.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Meeting in evening at War Dept. consists of President, Secs.
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person> and Welles, and Gen.
  Halleck. Lincoln is "trying to find out what Lee's army is up to." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>;
  <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> <p> President authorizes secretary of treasury to
  "co-operate by the revenue cutters under your direction with the navy in
  arresting rebel depredations on American commerce and transportation and in
  capturing rebels engaged therein." <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%3A578' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>,
  14 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:272-73.</bibl> </p> 
  <p> Replies to Hooker's dispatch inquiring if Winchester, Va., is surrounded:
  "I really fear&#x2014;almost believe, it is. No communication has been had with
  it during the day, either at Martinsburg, or Harper's Ferry. . . . It is quite
  certain that a considerable force of the enemy is thereabout; and I fear it is
  an overwhelming one, compared with [Gen. Robert H.], Milroy[']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%3A581' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>,
  14 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:273-74.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-15'>Monday, June 15, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President telegraphs <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> in Philadelphia: "Tolerably well. 
Have not rode out much yet, but have at last got new tires on the 
carriage wheels, &amp; perhaps, shall ride out soon."
<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%3A588' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 15 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:277.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Issues proclamation calling for 100,000 militia.
<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%3A589' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Calling for 100,000 Militia</xref>, 15 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:277-78; Washington Star, 15 June 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews E. L. Baker about charges against N. W. Edwards, 
commissary, and William H. Bailhache, quartermaster at Springfield, 
Ill., of having used their positions to amass personal fortunes.
<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%3A586' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward L. Baker</xref>, 15 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:275-76.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Informs Gen. Hooker at Fairfax Station, Va.: "The facts are now known 
here that Winchester and Martinsburg were both besieged yesterday; 
the troops from Martinsburg have got into Harper's Ferry without 
loss; those from Winchester, are also in, having lost, in killed, 
wounded and missing, about one third of their number."
<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%3A587' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 15 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:276-77.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Communicates with Gen. Daniel Tyler at Harper's Ferry, W. Va.: "It 
would be useful, if we could tell Hooker, about what number of the 
enemy is about Winchester and all North of it&#8212;also what troops 
they are. I will be obliged, if you will ascertain as nearly as you 
can, and inform me."
<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%3A590' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Daniel Tyler</xref>, 15 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:278.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-06-16'>Tuesday, June
  16, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  interviews district attorney in assault and battery case against John Knowles. 
  <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%3A591' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edward Bates</xref>, 16 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:278-79.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> in Philadelphia: "It is a matter of
  choice with yourself whether you come home. There is no reason why you should
  not, that did not exist when you went away. As bearing on the question of your
  coming home, I do not think the raid in Pennsylvania amounts to anything at
  all." <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%3A600' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 16 June 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:283.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews
  Gen. Cadwalader regarding assignment to command troops at Philadelphia for
  present emergency. <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%3A592' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Horace Binney, Jr.</xref>, 16 June 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:279.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At cabinet
  meeting Sec. Chase suggests that an attempt be made to capture Richmond, but
  Lincoln blocks idea. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President and
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> at War Dept. in evening. Sec.
  Welles drops in and finds them jubilant over report that no Confederates have
  reached Carlisle, Pa. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>, 17 June 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs
  Gen. Hooker: "Your idea to send your cavalry to this side of the river may be
  right&#8212;probably is; still, it pains me a little that it looks like
  defensive merely, and seems to abandon the fair chance now presented of
  breaking the enemy's long and necessarily slim line, stretched now from the
  Rappahannock to Pennsylvania." <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%3A596' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 16 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:280-81.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends letter to
  Hooker by hand of Capt. Ulric Dahlgren regarding lack of confidence Gen.
  Halleck displays toward Hooker. "You state the case much too strongly. . . . I
  believe Halleck is dissatisfied with you to this extent only, that he knows
  that you write and telegraph ('report' as he calls it) to me. . . . I need and
  must have the professional skill of both, and yet these suspicions tend to
  deprive me of both. . . . Now, all I ask is that you will be in such mood that
  we can get into our action the best cordial judgment of yourself and General
  Halleck, with my poor mite added, if indeed he and you shall think it entitled
  to any consideration at all." <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%3A597' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 16 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:281-82.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-06-17'>Wednesday, June 17, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President abstains from recommending Israel D. Andrews, former
  agent of U.S., for public employment. <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%3A605' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum about Israel D. Andrews</xref>,
  17 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:284-85.</bibl> </p> 
  <p>President Lincoln receives foreign minister Henry Segur, of San Salvador.
  Segur expresses "sympathy felt by the President of Salvador for the cause of
  the American Union." A newspaper reports, "President Lincoln replied by saying
  he hoped the Minister's residence here would be agreeable, and his mission
  satisfactory, and said he was not uninformed of the devotion of Salvador to the
  principles of republicanism and the interests of civilization." 
  <bibl default='NO'><title>Evening Star</title> (Washington, DC), 18 June 1863,
  2:4-5.</bibl> </p> <p> Replies to Gen. Hooker: "Mr. Eckert, Superintendent in
  the Telegraph Office, assures me that he has sent, and will send you
  everything, that comes to the office." <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%3A604' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>,
  17 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:284.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-18'>Thursday, June 18, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President thanks Gen. A. Dingman, 15th Battalion Volunteers, Canada, 
for offer of battalion to defend 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%3A607' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to A. Dingman</xref>, 18 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:285.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Mitigates sentence of dismissal in case of Surg. Alfred Wynkoop to 
severe reprimand for indiscretion in communicating information re 
troop movements.
<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%3A608' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 18 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:285-86.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Mr. Buckner who asks to be discharged from suit in scire facias.
<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%3A611' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua Tevis</xref>, 18 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:286-87.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-06-19'>Friday, June 19, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President replies to committee appointed by planters of state
  of Louisiana regarding reorganization of state 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%3A614' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to E. E. Malhiot, Bradish
  Johnson, and Thomas Cottman</xref>, 19 June 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:287-89.</bibl> </p> <p>President
  Lincoln meets with Boston Mayor Frederick W. Lincoln, who represents a
  "commission" now in Washington "to consult the President with reference to the
  defenses of Boston." <bibl default='NO'><title>Evening Star</title>
  (Washington, DC), 19 June 1863, 2:4.</bibl> </p> <p> Receives news that Rear
  Adm. Foote, suffering from incurable disease, is in critical condition. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 19 June 1863.</bibl> </p> <p> Instructs
  John Nicolay to inform Chicago "Tribune" that President will be glad to receive
  copies "so long as in your kindness you may please to send it." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to "Tribune" Company, 19 June 1863, John G. Nicolay
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-20'>Saturday, June 20, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives inquiry from Gen. Schofield asking whether 
government will sustain action of Missouri Constitutional Convention 
regarding gradual emancipation.
<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%3A617' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Schofield</xref>, 21 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:289.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-21'>Sunday, June 21, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln prepares answer to Gen. Schofield's inquiry of yesterday.
<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%3A617' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Schofield</xref>, 21 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:289.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Forwards report from Leesburg, Va., telegraph operator to Gen. 
Hooker: "Firing commenced about 7 this morning in direction from here 
of Aldie's Gap and Middleburg; has continued all day, . . . 
apparently now about White Plains."
<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%3A616' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 21 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:289.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-06-22'>Monday, June 22, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President allots Assoc. Justice Stephen J. Field to 10th
  circuit of U.S. Circuit Court for Districts of California and Oregon. 
  <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%3A618' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Assignment of Stephen J. Field</xref>, 22
  June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:290.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Appoints Asst. Atty. Gen. Titian J. Coffey attorney general ad interim, in
  absence of Edward Bates. <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%3A618' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Assignment of Stephen J. Field</xref>, 22
  June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:290; Bates,
  <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>, 23 June 1863.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Begins summer residence at Soldiers' Home. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star,
  22 June 1863; DNA&#x2014;RG 217, General Accounting Office, 147-321.</bibl>
  </p> <p> Sends another Leesburg, Va., report to Gen. Hooker: "'I heard very
  little firing this a.m. about daylight, but it seems to have stopped now. It
  was in about the same direction as yesterday, but farther off.' " 
  <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%3A619' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>,
  22 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:290.</bibl> </p> 
  <p>President Lincoln writes to commander of the Department of the Missouri
  General John M. Schofield, who seeks clarification regarding the military's
  role as the state institutes an emancipation policy. Lincoln writes, "I have
  very earnestly urged the slave-states to adopt emancipation; and it ought to
  be, and is an object with me not to overthrow, or thwart what any of them may
  in good faith do, to that end. You are therefore authorized to act in the
  spirit of this letter, in conjunction with what may appear to be the military
  necessities of your Department." <bibl default='NO'> John M. Schofield to
  Abraham Lincoln, 20 June 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%3A621' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M.
  Schofield</xref>, 22 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:291.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-23'>Tuesday, June 23, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At request of Cong. Kelley (Pa.) President interviews Pvt. Wilton M. 
Herpert [Milton L. Hupert?] and sends him to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A624' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 23 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:292.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln at cabinet meeting "sad and careworn." "Nothing of special 
interest was submitted."
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President inquires of Maj. Stewart Van Vliet, quartermaster at New 
York: "Have you any idea what the news is, in the despatches of Gen. 
Banks to Gen. Halleck?"
<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%3A625' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Stewart Van Vliet</xref>, 23 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:292.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-24'>Wednesday, June 24, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sec. Seward introduces Lt. Theron B. Luckey, recently discharged from 
143d New York Infantry. President sends him to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A629' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 24 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:294.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gen. Darius N. Couch at Harrisburg, Pa.: "Have you any 
reports of the enemy moving into Pennsylvania? and if any, what?"
<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%3A626' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Darius N. Couch</xref>, 24 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:293.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-25'>Thursday, June 25, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Delegation from Ohio State Democratic Convention visits President to 
present set of resolutions relating to civil liberties. Submits 
written resolutions following day.
<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%3A651' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Matthew Birchard and Others</xref>, 29 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:300-6.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes check to "Rev. Dr. [Phineas D.] Gurley (for church)" for $25.00.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:517.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-26'>Friday, June 26, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln commutes six death sentences pending in 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%3A637' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 26 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:296; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A638' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 26 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:296; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A639' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 26 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:296; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A640' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 26 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:296-97; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A641' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 26 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:297; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A642' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 26 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:297.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"The President in a single remark today betrayed doubts of Hooker, to 
whom he is quite partial."
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
About 9 P.M. Col. Daniel T. Van Buren and Col. Silas W. Burt visit 
President at Soldiers' Home to tell him that Gov. Seymour (N.Y.) will 
stand behind him.
<bibl default='NO'>Rufus R. Wilson, ed., <title>Lincoln Among His Friends: A Sheaf of Intimate Memories</title> (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1942), 330.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-27'>Saturday, June 27, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President at conference in War Dept. agrees to relieve Gen. Hooker of 
command of Army of Potomac and replace him with Gen. George G. Meade.
<bibl default='NO'>Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 2:274.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Hooker: "It did not come from the newspapers, nor did I 
believe it, but I wished to be entirely sure it was a falsehood." 
[This probably refers to rumor that Hooker was AWOL from 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%3A644' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker</xref>, 27 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:297-98.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-06-28'>Sunday, June
  28, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> At 10 A.M.
  cabinet meeting President reads reply to resolutions of Ohio Democratic State
  Convention regarding former Cong. Vallandigham (Ohio). Also reads Gen. Hooker's
  telegram offering to resign as commander of Army of Potomac. Sec. Welles
  believes that choice of Gen. Meade to succeed Hooker was made before meeting. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  "Gen. Hooker has asked to be relieved and Gen. Meade succeeds him." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln telegraphs Gen. Couch at Harrisburg, Pa.: "What
  news now? What are the enemy firing at four miles from your works?" <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%3A648' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Darius N. Couch</xref>, 28 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:299.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-06-29'>Monday, June 29, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President answers propositions set forth in resolutions of Ohio 
Democratic State Convention, presented on June 26, 1863 by delegation 
headed by Matthew Birchard.
<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%3A651' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Matthew Birchard and Others</xref>, 29 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:300-6.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Refuses to permit former Cong. William Kellogg (Ill.) or his agent to 
trade in cotton and other products at Helena, Ark.
<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%3A652' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Kellogg</xref>, 29 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:307.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves arrest of Gen. Milroy for loss of division at Winchester, Va.
<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%3A653' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert H. Milroy</xref>, 29 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:308-9.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 agree to plan of Asst. Sec. Fox for Rear 
Adm. Foote and task force commanded by Gen. Dix to attempt capture of 
Richmond. Gen. Halleck vetoes plan.
<bibl default='NO'>Gustavus V. Fox, <title>Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox</title>, 2 vols. (New York: n.p., 1918), 2:259; Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-06-30'>Tuesday, June 30, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President in conference with <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> and Gen. Halleck; misses cabinet meeting. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Cong. Kelley (Pa.) calls and requests that Gen. McClellan not be placed in
  command in Pennsylvania. <bibl default='NO'>Kelley to Lincoln, 30 June 1863, Robert Todd
  Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gen. Butler at White House for interview with President. 
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 1 July 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President
  receives invitation to use residence of J. C. G. Kennedy, 380 H St., at any
  time. <bibl default='NO'>Kennedy to Lincoln, 30 June 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of
  Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Telegraphs Gen. Couch at 3:25 P.M.: "I judge by absence of news that the enemy
  is not crossing, or pressing up to the Susquehannah. Please tell me what you
  know of his movements." <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%3A655' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Darius N. Couch</xref>, 30 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:310.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>President Lincoln
  replies to General David Hunter, who is unhappy about being "remov[ed] from
  command of the Dept. of the South." Hunter wants permission to release
  "official . . . records as may be necessary to set me right in the eyes of my
  friends and in the justice of history." Lincoln writes, "I assure you . . . the
  recent change of commanders . . . was made for no reasons which convey any
  imputation upon your known energy, efficiency and patriotism. . . . I cannot,
  by giving my consent to a publication of whose details I know nothing, assume
  the responsibility of whatever you may write. In this matter your own sense of
  military propriety must be your guide, and the regulations of the service your
  rule of conduct." <bibl default='NO'>David Hunter to Abraham Lincoln, 25 June 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%3A656' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to David Hunter</xref>, 30 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:310-11.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Answers A. K.
  McClure, who asserts that people are clamoring for Gen. McClellan to be placed
  in command in Pennsylvania: "Do we gain anything by opening one leak to stop
  another? Do we gain any thing by quieting one clamor, merely to open another,
  and probably a larger one?" <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%3A657' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Alexander K. McClure</xref>, 30 June 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:311.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Acknowledges
  letter of Gov. Joel Parker (N.J.), who writes that people of New Jersey want
  McClellan at head of Army of Potomac: "I really think the attitude of the
  enemies' army in Pennsylvania, presents us the best opportunity we have had
  since the war began. I think you will not see the foe in New-Jersey. I beg you
  to be assured that no one out of my position can know so well as if he were in
  it, the difficulties and involvements of replacing Gen. McClellan in command." 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A658' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joel Parker</xref>, 30 June 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:311-12.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <quote> 
            <p> [About 9
  A.M. the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa. begins.] </p> 
         </quote>
      </div2>