<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-01'>Saturday, August 1, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Patrick Murphy of New York, father of Col. 
Murphy, regarding employment.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A761' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hiram Barney</xref>, 1 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:361.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
J. G. Hamilton of Illinois sees President in interest of William T. 
Smithson, held in Old Capitol Prison, 1st St., on charge of treason.
<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%3A762' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning William T. Smithson</xref>, 1 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:361.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President transmits to adjutant general petition of citizens of 
Shenandoah Valley requesting that Gen. Milroy be restored to command.
<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;WR RG 107, Off. Sec. War, Register of Letters Received, EB 3, Entry 117.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and John Hay attend dedication of new printing office, home 
of Washington "Chronicle," on 9th St.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President converts eleven salary drafts, August 1862 to June 1863, 
amounting to $22,306.67 into U.S. treasury loan certificate bearing 5 
per cent interest.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 17 October 1864; Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 182.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-03'>Monday, August 3, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln orders stay of execution in case of Dr. Wright.
<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%3A764' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John G. Foster</xref>, 3 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:362.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Regrets Gen. James H. Van Alen, 3d New York Cavalry, forced to resign 
because of poor health.
<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%3A767' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James H. Van Alen</xref>, 3 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:363.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes second memorandum on appointment of G. T. Harris to West 
Point. "As soon as I consistently can, I wish to oblige Bishop 
McIlvaine."
<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%3A765' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of George T. Harris</xref>, 3 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:362.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-04'>Tuesday, August 4, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Seward talks on subject of prizes and prize courts.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-08-05'>Wednesday, August 5,
  1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cong. Boutwell
  (Mass.) interviews President on Louisiana affairs. <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%3A771' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks</xref>, 5 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:364-66.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  receives July salary warrant for $2,022.33. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>President Lincoln writes to General Nathaniel P. Banks regarding Louisiana's
  possible readmission into the Union. Lincoln writes, "I would be glad for her
  to make a new Constitution recognizing the emancipation proclamation . . . And . . . to adopt some practical system by which the two races could gradually live
  themselves out of their old relation to each other, and both come out better
  prepared for the new. Education for young blacks should be included in the
  plan." Lincoln adds, "If these views can . . . giv[e] . . . impetus, to action there, I
  shall be glad for you to use them prudently for that object." <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%3A771' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks</xref>, 5 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:364-66.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs
  Cincinnati "Gazette": "Please send me your present posting as to Kentucky
  election." <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%3A772' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Cincinnati <title>Gazette</title> 
               </xref>, 5 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:366.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Reviews
  production of gunpowder by Capt. Diller and Dr. Charles M. Wetherill in letter
  to I. Newton and discusses Wetherill's salary. <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%3A774' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Isaac Newton</xref>, 5 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:367-68.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-06'>Thursday, August 6, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President attends church services, having proclaimed August 6, 1863 
day of thanksgiving.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Speaks at Union meeting in city.
<bibl default='NO'>John W. Forney, <title>Anecdotes of Public Men</title>, 2 vols. (New York: Harper, 1873-81), 1:168.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Informs John Hay that danger of war with England is past, temporarily at least.
<bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 321.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-08-07'>Friday, August 7, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln declines invitation of Gov. Joseph A.
  Gilmore (N.H.) to visit Concord, N.H. <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%3A776' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph Gilmore</xref>, 7 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:368.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Directs that $20,000
  be placed under control of Sec. Seward and $80,000 under control of
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> for expenses of carrying into
  effect habeas corpus act. <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%3A777' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 7 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:368-69;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A780' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 7 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:370-71.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>President
  Lincoln responds to New York Governor Horatio Seymour, who seeks to halt "the
  draft in this State." Seymour cited the recent New York City draft riots and he
  suggeted that the draft law was unconstitutional. Lincoln disagrees and writes,
  "<uLine>time</uLine> is too important. . . . We are contending with an enemy
  who . . . drives every able bodied man he can reach, into his ranks, very much as a
  butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter-pen. . . . It produces an army with a
  rapidity not to be matched on our side . . . My purpose is to be just and
  constitutional; and yet practical." <bibl default='NO'>Horatio Seymour to Abraham Lincoln, 3
  August 1863, 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%3A779' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Horatio Seymour</xref>, 7 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:369-70.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Robert are in White Mountains. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Dennett, <title corresp='books_Dennett'>Hay Diaries and Letters</title>,
  75.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-08-08'>Saturday, August 8, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President sends Gov. Peirpoint
  (Va.) to Portsmouth, Va., to aid destitute families. <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%3A781' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John G. Foster</xref>, 8 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:371.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President Lincoln
  writes to his wife Mary and relays news to her and their son Tad. He writes,
  "Tell dear Tad, poor 'Nanny Goat,' is lost; and [the housekeeper] Mrs. Cuthbert
  &amp; I are in distress...The day you left Nanny was found resting...and
  chewing her little cud, on the middle of Tad's bed. But now she's gone! The
  gardener kept complaining that she destroyed the flowers...it was concluded to
  bring her down to the White House. This was done, and the second day she had
  disappeared, and has not been heard of since." <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%3A782' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 8 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:371-72; Justin G. Turner and Linda
  Levitt Turner, <title>Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters</title> (New
  York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 99.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-08-09'>Sunday, August 9, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln acknowledges receipt of petition from people of East
  Tennessee presented by John M. Fleming and Robert Morrow: "The
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Secretary of War</person> , Gen. Halleck,
  Gen. Burnside, and Gen. Rosecrans are all engaged now in an effort to relieve
  your section." <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%3A784' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John M. Fleming and
  Robert Morrow</xref>, 9 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:373-74.</bibl> </p> <p> President Lincoln writes to General Ulysses S. Grant
  and lobbies for the recruitment of black soldiers. Lincoln writes, "Gen.
  [Lorenzo] Thomas has gone again to the Mississippi Valley, with the view of
  raising colored troops. I have no reason to doubt that you are doing what you
  reasonably can upon the same subject. I believe it is a resource which, if
  vigorously applied now, will soon close the contest. It works doubly, weakening
  the enemy and strengthening us." <bibl default='NO'>
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A785' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S.
  Grant</xref>, 9 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:374-75.</bibl> </p> <p> In company of John Hay visits new studio of Alexander
  and James Gardner, corner of 7th and D Sts., over Shephard and Riley's
  Bookstore, and poses for several photographs. <bibl default='NO'>Frederick H.
  Meserve and Carl Sandburg, <title>The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln</title>
  (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1944), 9 August 1863.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-08-10'>Monday, August 10, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln assures Gen. Rosecrans: "I am not casting blame upon
  you. I rather think, by great exertion, you can get to East Tennessee. . . . I
  think of you in all kindness and confidence: . . . I am not watching you with
  an evil-eye." <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%3A790' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William S.
  Rosecrans</xref>, 10 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:377-78.</bibl> </p> <p> President Lincoln meets with Senator Samuel Pomeroy,
  of Kansas, and with abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. Lincoln's
  personal secretary John Hay recorded, "[Douglass] intends to go south and help
  the recruiting among his people." Also on this day, Lincoln adds the
  endorsement, "I concur," to a letter that the Secretary of the Interior John
  Usher and Senator Pomeroy signed. The letter acknowledges, "Douglass, is . . . a
  loyal, free, man, and is, hence, entitled to travel, unmolested. We trust he
  will be recognized everywhere, as a free man, and a gentleman." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger, eds.,
  <title corresp='books_Hay'>Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War
  Diary of John Hay</title> (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press,
  1997), 72; Pass for Frederick Douglass, 10 August 1863, <title>CW</title>,
  10:198.</bibl> </p> <p> Gen. Hooker visits Lincoln and accepts offer of command
  under Gen. Meade. <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%3A795' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>,
  11 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:381.</bibl> </p> 
  <p> At cabinet meeting President reads letter from Gov. Seymour (N.Y.) asking
  that draft be postponed and his own reply refusing to postpone it. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
  </p> <p> Writes Mrs. Elizabeth E. Hutter, Miss Claghorn, and Misses Lager of
  Philadelphia: "If anything could enhance to me the value of this representation
  of our national ensign, so elegantly executed and so gracefully bestowed, it
  would be the consideration that its price has been devoted to the comfort and
  restoration of those heroic men, who have suffered and bled in our flag's
  defense." <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%3A787' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Hutter, Misses
  Lager, and Miss Claghorn</xref>, 10 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:375-76.</bibl> </p> <p> Sends his ideas
  regarding treatment of captured neutrals in prize courts to Sec. Seward, and
  concludes: "My judgment [is] that the within, substantially, should be the
  answer to Lord Lyons." <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%3A792' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H.
  Seward</xref>, 10 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:378-80.</bibl> </p> <p> Inquires of <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec.
  Stanton</person> : "I have not heard of any charges being filed against Gen. J.
  A. McClernand. Are there any?" <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%3A793' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M.
  Stanton</xref>, 10 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:380.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-11'>Tuesday, August 11, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At cabinet meeting President reads another letter from Gov. Seymour 
(N.Y.) on draft. Problem of drafting skilled workers arises in 
cabinet discussions.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Atty. Gen. Bates presents to cabinet material reflecting on Gen. Halleck.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln again makes it clear to Seymour that draft cannot be suspended.
<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%3A796' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Horatio Seymour</xref>, 11 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:381-82.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President writes check: "No. 52 Washington, D.C. Aug. 11 1863 RIGGS 
&amp; CO. <uLine>Pay to</uLine> Colored man, with one leg. <uLine>or 
bearer</uLine> Five . . . . . . <uLine>Dollars</uLine> $5/00. A. 
Lincoln."
<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%3A794' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Check</xref>, 11 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:380.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Informs Gen. Meade that Gen. Hooker would accept command under him, 
"if it was still open."
<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%3A795' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 11 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:381.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-08-12'>Wednesday, August 12, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> William G. Greene of Illinois calls and presents
  letter on behalf of Gen. McClernand signed by Gov. Yates (Ill.), O. M. Hatch,
  and J. K. Dubois. Lincoln writes McClernand: "For me to force you back upon
  Gen. Grant, would be forcing him to resign. I can not give you a new command,
  because we have no forces except such as already have commanders. . . . This is
  now your case, which, as I have before said, pains me, not less than it does
  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%3A798' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John A. McClernand</xref>, 12 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:383-84.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews
  Gen. Blair, former Cong. Edward Haight (N.Y.), and former Cong. R. Holland
  Duell (N.Y.). <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 14 August 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-08-13'>Thursday, August 13, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p>President Lincoln writes to Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt
  regarding Major Alexander Montgomery's dismissal from the Army. Montgomery
  allegedly remarked that "President Lincoln ought to have his dam'd black heart
  cut out for issuing his proclamation of Emancipation." Lincoln writes, "As the
  principal charge, can be given the appearance at least of being merely
  personally offensive to me, and as [Montgomery] denies it, I think he should
  have a Court-Martial, rather than to abide my arbitrary dismissal. Please give
  him the Court-Martial if he desires 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%3A802' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 13
  August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:385; John S. Cosgrove
  to Alexander Montgomery, 17 October 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of
  Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Group of Republican leaders including Sen. Harris (N.Y.) and Gov. David Tod
  (Ohio) confers at White House with President. <bibl default='NO'> <title>N.Y.
  Herald</title>, 14 August 1863.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln and John Hay visit
  Capitol to see progress of rebuilding program. <bibl default='NO'>Hay,
  <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> President
  interviews Silas M. Hamilton of Baltimore, who has a plan for bringing North
  Carolina "once more into terms of harmony with the mother government of these
  States." <bibl default='NO'>Hamilton to Lincoln, 15 August 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='1863-08-14'>Friday, August 14, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and cabinet hear Gen. Meade describe parts of Battle of Gettysburg.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes: "My dear Cousin Lizzie [Elizabeth Todd Grimsley] I 
have, by the law, two classes of appointments to make to the 
Naval-School. . . . if I have a vacancy in the first class, I can not 
appoint Johnny [John Todd Grimsley], to it; and I have intended for 
months, and still intend, to appoint him to the very first vacancy I 
can get in the other class."
<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%3A803' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Elizabeth J. Grimsley</xref>, 14 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:385-86.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[See October 1, 1863.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-15'>Saturday, August 15, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President at War Dept. in morning regarding status of Gen. Anderson, 
who receives assignment to Fort Adams, R.I.
<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%3A805' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert Anderson</xref>, 15 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:386-87.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Extends leave of absence of Gen. Blair and Col. Martin D. Hardin for 
20 and 10 days respectively.
<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%3A808' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Extension of Leave for Francis P. Blair, Jr.</xref>, 15 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:388; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A809' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Extension of Leave for Martin D. Hardin</xref>, 15 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:388.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Prepares proclamation authorizing use of military force, if necessary 
to overcome opposition to draft law.
<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%3A812' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Horatio Seymour</xref>, [15 August] 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:389-91.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-16'>Sunday, August 16, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President asks W. O. Stoddard to serve as audience while he composes 
letter in which he uses expression "web-feet" in referring to navy 
[letter to J. C. Conkling, August 26, 1863].
<bibl default='NO'>William O. Stoddard, <title>Inside the White House in War Times</title> (New York: C. L. Webster, 1890), 227.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-08-17'>Monday, August 17, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In morning Frederick P. Stanton,
  Washington attorney and former Congressman (Tenn.), consults with President
  regarding changing an order in court of inquiry. <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%3A820' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Frederick P. Stanton</xref>, 17 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:395.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Christopher
  M. Spencer, inventor of Spencer rifle, presents rifle to President and
  demonstrates how to assemble it. <bibl default='NO'>W. A. Bartlett, "Lincoln's Seven Hits
  with a Rifle," <title>Magazine of History</title> 19 (1921):73, 71.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President Lincoln writes to Shakespearean actor James H. Hackett and shares
  his thoughts on the playwright's works. Lincoln writes, "For one of my age, I
  have seen very little of the drama. The first presentation of Falstaff I ever
  saw was yours here, last winter or spring...Some of Shakspeare's plays I have
  never read; while others I have gone over perhaps as frequently as any
  unprofessional reader. Among the latter are Lear, Richard Third, Henry Eighth,
  Hamlet, and especially Macbeth. I think nothing equals Macbeth. It is
  wonderful." Lincoln adds, "I should like to hear you pronounce the opening
  speech of Richard the Third. Will you not soon visit Washington again?" <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%3A815' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James H. Hackett</xref>, 17 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:392-93.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [See March
  13, 1863.] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-08-18'>Tuesday, August 18, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President Lincoln writes to
  Major General James Blunt, who is feuding with Kansas Governor Thomas Carney.
  Carney, whom Blunt called "a <uLine>theif</uLine> and a <uLine>liar</uLine>,"
  informed Lincoln that Blunt allowed "Citizens" to "execut[e]" two men who had
  been accused of "robbery." Lincoln notes that he has been satisfied with
  Blunt's past performance, "[but] to take men charged with no offence against
  the military, out of the hands of the courts, to be turned over to a mob to be
  hanged, can find no precedent or principle to justify it." <bibl default='NO'>James G. Blunt
  to Abraham Lincoln, 31 July 1863, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, D.C.;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A823' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James G. Blunt</xref>, 18 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:395-97; Thomas Carney to Abraham
  Lincoln, 25 June 1863, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  D.C.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In afternoon Lincoln and C. M. Spencer, accompanied by
  Robert and John Hay, leave White House and walk to Treasury Park, where they
  test Spencer rifle. <bibl default='NO'>Bruce, <title corresp='books_Bruce'>Tools of
  War</title>, 262-63.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln buys loan certificate for
  $3,874.73 with July salary warrant for $2,022.33 and $1,852.40 in greenbacks. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 127-28,
  183.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-19'>Wednesday, August 19, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
, who promises to return to 
trustees schoolhouse of First District of 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%3A826' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin B. French</xref>, 19 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:397-98.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Judge James B. Colt of Missouri, stepfather of Singleton 
Wilson in Camp Morton prison, Ind.
<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%3A827' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 19 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:398; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A828' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 20 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:398-99.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Enjoys target practice with Spencer repeating rifle.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Count Nicholas Giorgi, minister of Austria, presents credentials to 
President without usual exchange of formal addresses.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 19 August 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='1863-08-20'>Thursday, August 20, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives from Gen. Heintzelman notice of death of Gov. 
Gurley (Arizona Terr.).
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Visits telegraph office in afternoon.
<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%3A831' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 20 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:399-400.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Goes down river on invitation of Gen. Barnard to see new fort on 
Rosier's Bluff about three and one-half miles above Fort Washington, 
Va. 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
, Gens. Wadsworth, John H. Martindale, Meigs, and 
Barnard in party. Lincoln arrives home after dark.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Journal</title>, Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1863-08-21'>Friday, August 21, 1863.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Sec. Welles in conference with President on proposed
  instructions for U.S. naval officers and appointment of governor for territory
  of Arizona. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> Young Pittsburgh boy has
  interview with Lincoln, who writes note for him to see
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> . <bibl default='NO'>
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A834' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M.
  Stanton</xref>, 21 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:400.</bibl> </p> <p> President Lincoln meets with a twelve-member committee
  representing the American Baptist Missionary Convention. Leonard A. Grimes, of
  Boston, Massachusetts, chairs the black delegation that seeks Lincoln's
  assurances for their safety as they venture "within . . . military lines [to]
  minister to their brethren there." Lincoln addresses a letter "To whom it may
  concern" and presents it to Grimes. Lincoln writes, "[The Convention's] object
  is a worthy one, and I shall be glad for all facilities to be afforded them
  which may not be inconsistent with or a hindrance to our military operations." 
  <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%3A836' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Whom It May
  Concern</xref>, 21 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  6:401; <title>Washington Daily Morning Chronicle</title> (DC), 26 August 1863,
  3:1; <title>Evening Star</title> (Washington, DC), 26 August 1863, 3:2.</bibl>
  </p> <p> Sec. Welles accompanies Richard C. McCormick, secretary, Arizona
  Territory, and Joseph P. Allyn, associate justice, Arizona Territory, to White
  House conference with President. <bibl default='NO'> <title>Journal</title>,
  Samuel P. Heintzelman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-22'>Saturday, August 22, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In Panoche Grande, Calif., land grant case of Gen. Sickles, Lincoln 
decides: "I do not think I should meddle as a volunteer."
<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%3A839' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Daniel E. Sickles</xref>, 22 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:402; Milton H. Shutes, <title>Abraham Lincoln and the New Almaden Mine</title> (San Francisco, CA: L. R. Kennedy, 1936), 17.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening President, John Hay, and Mrs. Long visit observatory, 23d 
and E Sts. NW. Hay goes to Soldiers' Home with President and falls 
asleep listening to him read Shakespeare.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-23'>Sunday, August 23, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Soon after breakfast Lincoln and John Hay return to White House, and 
Lincoln drafts letter to J. C. Conkling.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-08-24'>Monday, August 24, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President requests Sec. Welles to identify naval
  officer killed at Fort Wagner, Charleston Harbor. [He was Comdr. George W.
  Rodgers (USN).] <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> John Hay leaves in
  afternoon for New York and Long Branch, N.J. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 25
  August 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President hears from Gen. McClernand, who writes:
  "Feeling that I have done my duty I shrink from no charges that Genl. Grant may
  prefer. . . . I only ask . . . for an impartial court. Such investigation would
  bring to light . . . many things, both military and personal, which are
  unwritten or unheeded." <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%3A798' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John A. McClernand</xref>, 12 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:383-84.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-25'>Tuesday, August 25, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President requests Sec. Usher to determine procedure in claim of 
Illinois for 2 per cent on sales of public lands and pursue 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%3A852' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isaac N. Morris</xref>, 26 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:411-12.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-08-26'>Wednesday, August 26,
  1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p>President Lincoln
  writes to James C. Conkling, of Springfield, Illinois, and declines an
  invitation to speak on September 3 at a "mass-meeting of unconditional
  Union-men." Lincoln acknowledges that he has detractors who "blame" him for
  prolonging the war. Lincoln responds, "To such I would say: you desire
  peace . . . But how can we attain it? . . . If you are not for <uLine>force</uLine>,
  nor yet for <uLine>dissolution</uLine>, there only remains some imaginable
  <uLine>compromise</uLine>. I do not believe any compromise, embracing the
  maintenance of the Union, is now possible. All I learn, leads to a directly
  opposite belief. The strength of the rebellion, is its military&#8212;its
  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%3A849' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James C. Conkling</xref>, 26 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:406-10.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-27'>Thursday, August 27, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"My dear Conkling I can not leave here now. Herewith is a letter 
[Aug. 26] instead. You are one of the best public readers. I have but 
one suggestion. Read it very slowly."
<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%3A856' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James C. Conkling</xref>, 27 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:414.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President denies stay of execution of five bounty jumpers.
<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%3A857' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 27 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:414-15.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives protest from mayor and comptroller of Chicago claiming 
unfairness of 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%3A860' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Francis C. Sherman and Samuel S. Hayes</xref>, 27 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:417-18.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-08-28'>Friday, August 28, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Gov. Curtin (Pa.) regarding draft quotas.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 29 August 1863.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Declines invitation to attend presentation of sword honoring Gen. Meade.
<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%3A862' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel W. Crawford</xref>, 28 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:418.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-08-29'>Saturday, August 29,
  1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President at
  Treasury Dept. in afternoon consults with Sec. Chase on results of arming Negro
  troops. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official
  Records&#8212;Armies</title> 532.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends copy of his August 26,
  1863 Conkling letter to Union State Committee of New York. <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%3A868' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ben Field</xref>, 29 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:420;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A869' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ben Field</xref>, 29 August 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:420.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President Lincoln
  writes to his wife, Mary, who is in Manchester, New Hampshire. He relays war
  news, particularly regarding the Charleston, South Carolina area. Lincoln
  writes, "All quite well. Fort-Sumpter is <uLine>certainly</uLine> battered
  down, and utterly useless to the enemy, and it is <uLine>believed</uLine> here,
  but not entirely certain, that both Sumpter and Fort-Wagner, are occupied by
  our forces. It is also certain that Gen. [Quincy Adams] Gilmore [Gillmore] has
  thrown some shot into the City of Charleston." <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%3A872' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 29 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:421.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1863-08-31'>Monday, August 31, 1863.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Sen. Bowden (Va.), L. H. Chandler, and former Cong.
  Segar (Va.) confer with President about tax imposed on people of Northampton
  County to rebuild lighthouse destroyed by Confederates. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 534-35.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> President recognizes Paul Guye as vice consul of Swiss Confederation
  at St. Louis for states of Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas, and Territory of
  Nebraska. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 2 September 1863.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Compliments Gen. Rosecrans: "I can never forget, whilst I remember anything,
  that about the end of last year, and beginning of this, you gave us a hard
  earned victory which, had there been a defeat instead, the nation could
  scarcely have lived over." <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%3A882' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 31 August 1863,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:424-25.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>