<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'>
         <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> Writes
  Gen. Curtis upon removing him from command of Dept. of the Missouri: "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'>
         <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 telegraphs Gen. Hooker: "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&#8212;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'>
         <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>
Receives Henry Segur, envoy extraordinary and minister 
plenipotentiary of San Salvador.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 18 June 1863.</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'>
         <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>
Interviews Hon. F. W. Lincoln, mayor of Boston and member of 
commission to consult with President on defenses of Boston.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 19 June 1863.</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'>
         <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'>