<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'>
         <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>
Lincoln telegraphs Robert at Harvard: "Don't be uneasy. Your mother 
very slightly hurt by her fall."
<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.</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'>
         <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> Lincoln and Tad
  visit Gen. Sickles at private residence on F St., where he is recuperating from
  leg amputation following first day's battle at Gettysburg. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
  Chronicle, 6 July 1863.</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> 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'>
         <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 reverses position on New Almaden Mine and suspends military 
enforcement of writ of 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%3A699' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Leonard Swett</xref>, 15 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:333-34.</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'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-07-20'>Monday, July
  20, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Provost Marshal
  General informs President "that New-Jersey is now behind twelve thousand
  irrespective 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%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'>
         <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>
Refuses to read letter of Gov. Gamble (Mo.) complaining that 
President described him in letter to Gen. Schofield as leader of 
faction in Missouri. Letter appeared in St. Louis "Democrat."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lin