<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-07-01'>Wednesday, July 1, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President visits <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec.
  Stanton</person> in reference to Surg. William D. Stewart, dismissed for being
  absent without leave. <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%3A661' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Benjamin B. French</xref>, 1 July 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:312-13.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-02'>Thursday, July 2, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In morning Sec. Welles finds Lincoln at War Dept. reading dispatches 
from Gen. Meade.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"Lincoln was in the telegraph office hour after hour during those 
anxious days and nights."
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 155.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln asks 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to pay advertising bill of "National 
Republican." It is "a source of trouble to 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%3A662' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 2 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:313.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-07-03'>Friday, July 3, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Sec. Welles meets President and Sec. Seward at War Dept. during
  morning, examining dispatches from Gen. Meade. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p>
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> receives head injury
  when thrown from carriage during drive to Soldiers' Home. <bibl default='NO'>Helm, <title corresp='books_Helm'>Mary</title>, 211-12.</bibl>
  </p> <p> President Lincoln telegraphs his son Robert, who attends Harvard
  University, regarding Robert's mother, Mary. Lincoln advises, "Dont be uneasy.
  Your mother very slightly hurt by her fall." The day prior, Mary Lincoln
  suffered injuries from a carriage accident. A newspaper reports, "Her horses
  took fright and ran away as she was riding from the Soldier's Home to the city.
  Seeing her imminent danger she leaped from the carriage, and was stunned and
  severely bruised, but no bones were broken. Surgeons from Mount Pleasant
  Hospital were promptly in attendance. She soon recovered sufficiently to be
  taken to the White House." <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%3A665' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert T.
  Lincoln</xref>, 3 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:314;
  <title>New York Times</title>, 3 July 1863, 5:2.</bibl> </p> <p> Sends order to
  Gen. Burnside: "Private [John] Downey, of the Twentieth or Twenty-sixth
  Kentucky Infantry, is said to have been sentenced to be shot for desertion
  to-day. If so, respite the execution until I can see the record." 
  <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%3A663' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ambrose E.
  Burnside</xref>, 3 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:313.</bibl> </p> <quote> <p> [At 10 A.M. Confederate garrison at Vicksburg,
  Miss. surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant.] </p> </quote> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-04'>Saturday, July 4, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 10 A.M. President issues press release announcing that "news from 
the Army of the Potomac, up to 10 P.M. of the 3rd. is such as to 
cover that Army with the highest honor."
<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%3A666' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Announcement of News From Gettysburg</xref>, 4 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:314.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Haupt rushes from Gettysburg and confers with Lincoln and Gen. 
Halleck on military matters.
<bibl default='NO'>Flower, <title corresp='books_Flower'>Stanton</title>, 201.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Archimedes C. Dickson, Springfield (Ill.) friend known as "Dick," 
calls at White House as salesman to interest Lincoln in Absterdam 
projectile patterned after Dyer's rifle shell, "distinguished chiefly 
by a cup or sabot of soft metal at the base, which was supposed to 
expand and take the grooves like a Mini&#233; bullet."
<bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 257-58.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Union League of Philadelphia presents gold medal to President.
<bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1188.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening Sec. Welles receives dispatch from Alexander H. Stephens, 
Vice President of Confederate States of America; shows it to 
President.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> assists W. C. Stoddard in preparation of Fourth of July 
celebration in White House grounds.
<bibl default='NO'>William O. Stoddard, <title>Inside the White House in War Times</title> (New York: C. L. Webster, 1890), 206-9.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President writes Acting Rear Adm. Samuel P. Lee (USN): "The request 
of A. H. Stephens is inadmissible. The customary agents and channels 
are adequate for all needful communication and conference between the 
United States forces and the insurgents." [In the absence of the 
original, it is not certain that Lincoln composed or signed this, and 
that it was prepared on July 4, 1863 may be questioned.]
<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%3A668' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel P. Lee</xref>, 4 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:317.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Schenck at Baltimore: "Your despatches about negro 
regiment are not uninteresting or unnoticed by us, but we have not 
been quite ready to respond. You will have an answer tomorrow."
<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%3A669' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 4 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:317.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-07-05'>Sunday, July 5, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> 11 A.M. Principal discussion at cabinet meeting is request of
  A. H. Stephens for permission to proceed to Washington for interview with
  President. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p>In the afternoon,
  President Lincoln and his son, Tad, visit General Daniel E. Sickles, who is
  recovering in Washington. During the battle at Gettysburg on July 2, Sickles
  received a severe injury to his right leg prompting surgeons to remove the leg
  to a point "five inches above the knee." A newspaper reports, "[Lincoln, Tad,]
  and a mounted escort, rode on horseback to Gen. Sickles' door." Lincoln
  "congratulated him on his ability and courage, and expressed the greatest
  regret that [Sickles's] . . . wound . . . rendered amputation necessary." 
  <bibl default='NO'><title>Washington Chronicle</title>, 6 July 1863;
  <title>Evening Star</title> (Washington, DC), 6 July 1863, 3:2; <title>New York
  Times</title>, 6 July 1863, 4:5.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-06'>Monday, July 6, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Special cabinet meeting at 9 A.M. continues consideration of A. H. 
Stephens' mission and decides that he should communicate through 
prescribed military channels.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln leaves telegraph office in War Dept. and arrives at Soldiers' 
Home about 7 P.M.
<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%3A671' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 6 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:318.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives June salary warrant for $2,022.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Suggests to Gen. Halleck that he look to movements of Army of 
Potomac. Does Gen. Meade intend to cover Baltimore and Washington, 
and get enemy across river again without further collision, or does 
he plan to prevent his crossing and to destroy 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%3A671' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 6 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:318.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-07-07'>Tuesday, July 7, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln at telegraph office in morning receives Gen. Grant's
  dispatch announcing capture of Vicksburg, Miss. <bibl default='NO'>Bates,
  <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 156;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A673' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, [7 July 1863],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:319.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Vice
  President Hamlin and Senators from Maine confer with President and urge better
  New England coastal defense against piratical depredations of enemy. <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%3A675' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 7 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:320-21.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At cabinet
  meeting President appears despondent because Gen. Meade has lingered at
  Gettysburg. At 12:40 P.M. Sec. Welles gives President telegram from Acting Rear
  Adm. David D. Porter [for retroactive promotion see December 8, 1863]
  announcing surrender of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In evening, upon
  learning of the Union Army's victory at Vicksburg, Mississippi, "a procession
  with bands of music proceed[s] to the Executive Mansion." A newspaper reports,
  "a crowd enthusiastically cheered the President, [who] . . . appeared at an upper
  window." Lincoln remarks that it is fitting that the Vicksburg victory occurred
  on the "Fourth of July just passed," when defeat came to "those who opposed the
  declaration that all men are created equal." Lincoln "praise[s] . . . the many
  brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the Union." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A674' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response
  to a Serenade</xref>, 7 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:319-20; <title>New York Daily Tribune</title> (NY), 8 July 1863, 5:3;
  <title>The New York Times</title> (NY), 8 July 1863, 8:1-2; <title>Daily
  Morning Chronicle</title> (Washington, D.C.), 8 July 1863, 2:2-3.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-07-08'>Wednesday, July 8, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President recognizes Heinrich
  Otto Sigmund Cuntz as consul of Grand Duchy of Oldenburg for state of
  Massachusetts and Henry Bream as vice consul of Denmark for New York,
  Connecticut, and parts of New Jersey. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 13 July
  1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>A few days after the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania battle,
  President Lincoln responds to a telegram that Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas
  sent to the Secretary of War <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Edwin Stanton</person>
  regarding Union troops in pursuit of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's army.
  Lincoln writes, "The forces you speak of, will be of no immagineable service,
  if they can not go forward with a little more expedition." Lincoln explains
  that the troops must move quickly or they "will, in my unprofessional opinion,
  be quite as likely to capture the Man-in-the Moon, as any part of Lee's 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%3A678' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Lorenzo Thomas</xref>, 8 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:321-22.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Informs Frederick
  F. Low, collector of port of San Francisco, of Gen. Meade's victory at
  Gettysburg and Gen. Grant's victory at Vicksburg, Miss. <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%3A676' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Frederick F. Low</xref>, 8 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:321.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Answers dispatch of
  U.S. District Attorney E. D. Smith (N.Y.): "Capture of Vicksburg confirmed by
  despatch from Gen. Grant himself." <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%3A677' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to E. Delafield Smith</xref>, 8 July 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:321.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-07-09'>Thursday, July
  9, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  instructs Leonard Swett and F. F. Low to avoid riot in taking possession of New
  Almaden Quicksilver Mine in California. <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%3A679' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Leonard Swett and Frederick F. Low</xref>, 9 July 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:322.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Pardons John
  McCleary, counterfeiter, and Victor La Waer, convicted of attempting to incite
  soldiers to desert. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 10 July 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-10'>Friday, July 10, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At Soldiers' Home, President interviews A. C. Dickson, Orloff A. 
Zane, and John Absterdam regarding Absterdam shell.
<bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>, 259.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Assures Gen. Sickles that no III Corps disaster has been reported.
<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%3A680' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Daniel E. Sickles</xref>, 10 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:322-23.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-07-11'>Saturday, July 11, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> "The President seemed in specially good humor today, as he had
  pretty good evidence that the enemy were still on the north side of the
  Potomac, and Meade had announced his intention of attacking them in the
  morning." <bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and
  Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> President Lincoln writes to his friend Illinois
  State Auditor Jesse K. Dubois, of Springfield, Illinois. Dubois had telegraphed
  Lincoln seeking the outcome of the battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Lincoln
  writes, "After three days fighting . . . [Confederate General Robert E.] Lee
  withdrew and made for the Potomac [River] . . . he found the river so swolen as
  to prevent his crossing . . . he is still this side near Hagerstown and
  Williamsport, preparing to defend himself . . . I am more than satisfied with
  what has happened North of the Potomac so far, and am anxious and hopeful for
  what is to come." <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%3A681' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jesse K. Dubois</xref>,
  11 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:323.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Calls at Navy Ordnance Bureau and orders trial of Absterdam shell as soon as
  possible. <bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of
  War</title>, 259.</bibl> </p><p>President Lincoln writes to New York Governor
  Horatio Seymour regarding the court martial of Captain John N. Riedenbach, of
  the 158th New York Volunteers. Lincoln writes, "The evidence shows a good deal
  of boistrous misconduct, during a single case of intoxication; and I incline to
  think he does not habitually get in that condition. But I have not the legal
  power . . . to restore him to his office, nor would I do it . . . without a
  better knowledge of his character . . . I write this merely to say that if the
  Governor of New-York shall choose to appoint him to the same or another
  Military office, the disability is hereby removed, enabling him to do so." 
  <bibl>Abraham Lincoln to Horatio Seymour, 11 July 1863, <title>CW</title>,
  10:193.</bibl></p> <p> Telegraphs Robert Lincoln: "Come to Washington." 
  <bibl default='NO'>
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A682' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert T.
  Lincoln</xref>, 11 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:323.</bibl> </p> <p> Inquires of Gen. Schenck: "How many rebel prisoners,
  captured within Maryland &amp; Pennsylvania, have reached Baltimore within this
  month of July?" <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%3A683' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert C.
  Schenck</xref>, 11 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:323-24.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-12'>Sunday, July 12, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln at telegraph office receives word of Gen. Meade's plan to 
attack tomorrow. Paces floor, wringing his hands and muttering, "Too 
late."
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 157.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Assures Gen. Schenck that Gen. Isaac R. Trimble (CSA) has not been 
imprisoned in Baltimore for fear traitorous associates will contact 
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%3A687' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 12 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:325.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-13'>Monday, July 13, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives call for help to subdue mob resisting draft in New York.
<bibl default='NO'>John Jay and others to Lincoln, 13 July 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles calls on President and suggests that Acting Rear Adm. 
Porter be made rear admiral.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gen. Grant: "I do not remember that you and I ever met 
personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the 
almost inestimable service you have done the country. . . . When you 
got below, and took Port-Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought 
you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned 
Northward East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now 
wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I 
was wrong."
<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%3A689' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 13 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:326.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Schofield in St. Louis: "I regret to learn of the arrest 
of the Democrat editor. . . . but I care very little for the 
publication of any letter I have written. Please spare me the trouble 
this is likely to bring."
<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%3A690' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Schofield</xref>, [13 July] 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:326-27.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-07-14'>Tuesday, July
  14, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Shortly before
  cabinet meeting President learns that Gen. R. E. Lee has crossed into Virginia.
  Sec. Welles walks to War Dept. with Lincoln, who is depressed by Lee's escape.
  Two hours later Welles returns to War Dept. and finds Lincoln there lying on
  sofa, dejected and discouraged. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> After noon Lincoln
  visits Navy Yard and witnesses firing of 20 Absterdam shells from army field
  gun. <bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of War</title>,
  259.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President recognizes Carlos Enrique Leland as vice consul
  of Oriental Republic of Uruguay at New York. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 16
  July 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs Robert Lincoln in New York: "Why do I
  hear no more of you?" <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A691' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Robert T. Lincoln</xref>, 14 July 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:327.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes Gen.
  Meade: "I have just seen your despatch to Gen. Halleck, asking to be relieved
  of your command, because of a supposed censure of mine. . . . But I was in such
  deep distress myself that I could not restrain some expression of it. . . . I
  do not believe you appreciate the magnitude of the misfortune involved in Lee's
  escape. He was within your easy grasp, and to have closed upon him would, in
  connection with our other late successes, have ended the war. . . . Your golden
  opportunity is gone, and I am distressed immeasurably because of it." [The
  letter was never signed or sent.] <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%3A692' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 14 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:327-29.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-07-15'>Wednesday, July 15, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President Lincoln writes to Leonard Swett, whom he "authorized
  . . . to take possession of" the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine after the U.S.
  Supreme Court voided Andres Castillero's ownership claim. Lincoln rethinks the
  order concerning the Santa Clara County, California mine, and writes, "Many
  persons are telegraphing me from California, begging me, for the peace, of the
  State, to suspend the military enforcement of the writ of possession . . .
  while you are the single one who urges the contrary. You know I would like to
  oblige you, but it seems to me my duty . . . is the other way." 
  <bibl default='NO'> <xref>Abraham Lincoln to Charles W. Rand</xref>, 8 May
  1863, <title>CW</title>, 6:205-206;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A699' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Leonard Swett</xref>,
  15 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:333-34; Milton H.
  Shutes, <title>Abraham Lincoln and the New Almaden Mine</title> (San Francisco,
  CA: Lawton R. Kennedy, 1936), 6-8.</bibl> </p> <p> Approves letter of J. R.
  Gilmore to Gov. Zebulon B. Vance (N.C.) regarding restoration of peace between
  states, reunion of states on basis of abolition of slavery, and reinstatement
  of Confederate citizens in all rights of citizenship. <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%3A696' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement on Letter of James R. Gilmore
  to Zebulon B. Vance</xref>, [15? July 1863], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:330-31.</bibl> </p> <p> Robert Lincoln
  quotes President as saying after Confederate army's escape following Battle of
  Gettysburg: "If I had gone up there I could have licked them myself." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay, <title corresp='books_Nicolay1'>Lincoln's
  Secretary</title>, 171; Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and
  Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> President proclaims "Thursday the 6th. day of
  August next, to be observed as a day for National Thanksgiving, Praise and
  Prayer." <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%3A698' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation of Thanksgiving</xref>, 15
  July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:332-33.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-16'>Thursday, July 16, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Gov. Carney (Kans.) regarding right of governor 
to appoint military 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%3A718' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Carney</xref>, 21 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:339-40.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-17'>Friday, July 17, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President at cabinet meeting affirms his faith in Gen. Meade.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to place governor of Kansas on same ground as 
other loyal governors in giving original commissions.
<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%3A702' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 17 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:335.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-18'>Saturday, July 18, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and Judge Adv. Gen. Holt spend six hours reviewing 
courtmartial sentences. Lincoln averse to death sentence for 
cowardice.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A703' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 18 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:335; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A704' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 18 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:335; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A705' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 18 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:335-36; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A706' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 18 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:336; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A707' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 18 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:336; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A708' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 18 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:336; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A709' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 18 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:336; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A710' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 18 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:336; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A711' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 18 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:337.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
To Hay, Lincoln remarks on case of Capt. James M. Cutts, Jr., (See 
October 26, 1863) charged with furtively watching woman undress, that 
Cutts should be elevated to "peerage" with title of "Count Peeper."
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln's pronunciation resembles name of Count Piper, Swedish diplomat.
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-19'>Sunday, July 19, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President in excellent humor; scribbles doggerel for John Hay.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Seward makes appointment for President with Lord Lyons at 
Soldiers' Home, 8:30 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 17 July 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-07-20'>Monday, July 20, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President Lincoln writes to New Jersey Governor Joel Parker,
  who wrote to Lincoln with concerns about the new Enrollment Act. Parker wrote,
  "[N]o man can predict the results which might follow the enforcement of the
  draft in the present feverish state of the public mind. . . . I deem it my duty
  to state to you that there is a deep rooted hostility with many of the people
  of this state to the provisions of . . . the conscription act, which is liable
  to lead to popular outbreak if it be enforced." Lincoln answers, "It is a very
  delicate matter to postpone the draft in one State, because of the argument it
  furnishes others to have postponements also. . . . I wish to avoid the
  difficulties you dread, as much as yourself." <bibl default='NO'> Joel Parker
  to Abraham Lincoln, 15 July 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%3A715' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joel Parker</xref>, 20
  July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:337-38.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Congs. Lovejoy (Ill.) and Arnold (Ill.) discuss with Lincoln problems of
  slavery and Border States. <bibl default='NO'>Francis F. Browne, <title>The
  Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln</title> (New York: Thompson, 1886),
  533.</bibl> </p> <p> President recognizes Guillermo B. Newberry as consul of
  Peru at Boston. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 21 July 1863.</bibl>
  </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-21'>Tuesday, July 21, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
W. Butler and group of businessmen interview President to obtain 
privileges of trade.
<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%3A719' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 21 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:340.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln expresses confidence in Gen. Meade "as a brave and skillful officer."
<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%3A722' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Oliver O. Howard</xref>, 21 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:341-42; Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to renew effort "to raise colored forces along 
the shores of the Mississippi," and suggests Adjt. Gen. Thomas as one 
of best "instruments for this service."
<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%3A724' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 21 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:342.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-07-22'>Wednesday, July 22, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President unwell in morning.
  Scarcely takes food all day. Misses appointment with Gen. Schenck. <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%3A731' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 23 July 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:345-46.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Suggests
  $2,500 as annual compensation for chief chemist of Agriculture Dept. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A727' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Isaac Newton</xref>, 22 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:343.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>President Lincoln
  writes a letter of introduction for a Mr. Houston to present to the Secretary
  of War Edwin M. Stanton. Lincoln writes, "[the] bearer of this, now has three
  sons in the war. He wishes the youngest, Albert P. Houston, now in the 108th
  Ills regiment, at Vicksburg [Mississippi], transferred to the 1st West
  Tennessee regiment of Cavalry, at Bolivar [Tennessee] when last heard from, and
  in which is one of his elder brothers. I would like for him to be obliged." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 22 July 1863, Henry Horner Lincoln
  Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-07-23'>Thursday, July 23, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln interviews Nehemiah G. Ordway, chairman of Republican
  Central Committee of New Hampshire, regarding Col. Walter Harriman and
  equalization of draft. <bibl default='NO'>Ordway to Lincoln, 24 July 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%3A742' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M.
  Stanton</xref>, 27 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:352.</bibl> </p> <p> President Lincoln replies to a "very 'cross'" letter
  from Missouri Governor Hamilton R. Gamble. Lincoln admits that he did not read
  Gamble's letter because "I am trying to preserve my own temper, by avoiding
  irritants, so far as practicable." Gamble took offense at comments Lincoln made
  in a letter to General John M. Schofield concerning the contentious
  relationship between Gamble and Schofield's predecessor, General Samuel R.
  Curtis. Lincoln writes, "I was totally unconscious of any malice, or disrespect
  towards you, or of using any expression which should offend you, if seen by
  you." <bibl default='NO'> <xref>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Schofield</xref>, 27
  May 1863, <title>CW</title>, 6:234; <title>Daily Missouri Democrat</title> (St.
  Louis), 27 June 1863, 1:1; Hamilton R. Gamble to Abraham Lincoln, 13 July 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%3A730' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hamilton R.
  Gamble</xref>, 23 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:344-45; Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger,
  <title corresp='books_Hay'>Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War
  Diary of John Hay</title> (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press,
  1997), 66-67.</bibl> </p> <p> Writes Gen. Schenck to clear up any
  misunderstanding about their meeting. "I beg you will not believe I have
  treated you with intentional discourtesy." <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%3A731' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert C.
  Schenck</xref>, 23 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:345-46.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-07-24'>Friday, July 24, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> At cabinet meeting inquiries are made about army, but no
  information is communicated. Sec. Seward confers with President for an hour
  before meeting. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> President suspends
  action in six courtmartial cases of men sentenced to be shot for desertion. 
  <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%3A734' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 24
  July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:347.</bibl> </p> <p>
  President Lincoln writes to Postmaster General Montgomery Blair regarding job
  openings. Lincoln writes, "Yesterday little indorsements of mine went to you in
  two cases of Post-Masterships sought for widows whose husbands have fallen in .
  . . battles . . . These cases occurring on the same day, brought me to reflect
  more attentively than I had before done, as to what is fairly due from us here,
  in the dispensing of patronage . . . My conclusion is that, other claims and
  qualifications being equal, they have the better right; and this is especially
  applicable to the disabled soldier, and the deceased soldier's family." 
  <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%3A732' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Montgomery
  Blair</xref>, 24 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:346;
  <title>New York Daily Tribune</title>, 29 July 1863, 1;2.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-25'>Saturday, July 25, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At night John Hay accompanies President to Soldiers' Home.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln explains to Gov. Parker (N.J.) that it would breed trouble to 
"have a special stipulation with the Governor of any one State" 
regarding draft quotas. "As it stands, the best I can say is, that 
every volunteer you will present us within thirty days from this date 
. . . shall be, pro-tanto&#8212;an abatement of your quota of the 
draft."
<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%3A735' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joel Parker</xref>, 25 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:347-48.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders Sec. Welles to: 1. cease "using any neutral port, to watch 
neutral vessels, and then to dart out and seize them on their 
departure"; 2. cease detaining "the crew of a captured neutral vessel 
. . . on board such vessel, as prisoners of war."
<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%3A736' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 25 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:348-50.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-07-26'>Sunday, July
  26, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Sec. Welles
  confers with President about reinforcements for Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore who is
  cooperating with Rear Adm. Dahlgren in siege of Charleston. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-27'>Monday, July 27, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Joseph J. Grimshaw calls and asks President to make Col. Arthur H. 
Grimshaw a 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%3A739' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Arthur H. Grimshaw</xref>, 27 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:351.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln inquires of Gen. Meade: "I have not thrown Gen. Hooker away; 
and therefore I would like to know whether, it would be agreeable to 
you, all things considered, for him to take a corps under you, if he 
himself is willing to do 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%3A738' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 27 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:350.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Explains to Gen. Burnside that Gen. Grant said he would return IX 
Corps. "Grant is a copious worker, and fighter, but a very meagre 
writer, or telegrapher. No doubt he changed his purpose in regard to 
the Ninth Corps, for some sufficient reason, but has forgotten to 
notify us of 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%3A737' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ambrose E. Burnside</xref>, 27 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:350.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-28'>Tuesday, July 28, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln telegraphs <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> in New York: "Bob went to Fort-Monroe 
&amp; only got back to-day. Will start to you at 11. AM tomorrow. All 
well."
<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%3A745' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 28 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:353.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recommends to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 that wounded Confederate, Capt. Robert 
Brown, prisoner in Gettysburg, be transferred to care of relatives in 
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%3A746' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 23 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:353.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-29'>Wednesday, July 29, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln authorizes Gen. Halleck to inform Gen. Meade that government 
is not "demanding of him to bring on a general engagement with Lee as 
soon as possible."
<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%3A748' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 29 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:354.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests sec. of war to consult with general in chief on subject of 
organizing force to go to western Texas.
<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%3A749' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 29 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:354-55.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Deposits July 1862 salary warrant for $2,083.33 in Riggs Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-07-30'>Thursday, July 30, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President Lincoln signs an Oder
  of Retaliation in which he outlines measures "to give protection to . . . citizens,
  of whatever class, color, or condition, and especially to those who are duly
  organized as soldiers in the public service." Lincoln pledges, "The government
  of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers, and if
  the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his color, the offense shall
  be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession." 
  <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%3A755' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  of Retaliation</xref>, 30 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:357.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes F. P. Blair, Sr.: "Yesterday I commenced trying
  to get up an expedition for Texas. I shall do the best I 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%3A753' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Francis P. Blair, Sr.</xref>, 30 July 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:356.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-07-31'>Friday, July
  31, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President sends
  condolences to Frederick VII, King of Denmark, on death of Prince Frederick
  Ferdinand. <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%3A756' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Frederick VII</xref>, 31 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:357-58.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews L. H.
  Chandler acting as counsel for Dr. David M. Wright of Norfolk in murder case
  before military commission. <bibl default='NO'>Chandler to Lincoln, 1 August 1863, Robert
  Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet listens for two hours to report
  presented by Col. John A. Rawlins on capture of Vicksburg, Miss. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln asks Gen.
  Hurlbut to reconsider question of resigning. <bibl default='NO'>Hay,
  <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A757' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Stephen A. Hurlbut</xref>, 31 July 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:358-59.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Writes
  Samuel W. Moulton, enrollment commissioner for 10th District of Illinois: "Your
  removal has been strongly urged on the ground of 'presistent disobedience of
  orders and neglect of duty.' . . . I consider your services in your district
  valuable, and should be sorry to lose them. . . . I hope you will conclude to
  go on in your present position under the regulations of the Department." <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%3A758' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Samuel W. Moulton</xref>, 31 July 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:359-60.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>