<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-01'>Monday, February 1, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President directs 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to have transport sent to Negro colony 
established on Ile &#224; Vache and to bring back all who wish to 
return.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A344' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 1 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:164-65.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders that draft for 500,000 men, to serve for three years or during 
war, be made on March 10, 1864 next.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A343' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order for Draft of 500,000 Men</xref>, 1 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:164.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Capt. Ulric Dahlgren, who has waited from 11 A.M. until 4 
P.M. They discuss personal and military matters while Lincoln is 
being shaved.
<bibl default='NO'>Dahlgren to Dahlgren, 1 February 1864, John A. Dahlgren Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-02'>Tuesday, February 2, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends message of sorrow to Kamehameha V, King of Hawaiian 
Islands, on death of brother.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A345' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Kamehameha V</xref>, 2 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:165.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> attend second anniversary meeting of U.S. 
Christian Commission in House of Representatives.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 3 February 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President issues order approving new trade regulations insofar as 
they annul restrictions on trade in West Virginia within Union lines.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A346' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Approving Regulations of Trade</xref>, 2 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:166.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-03'>Wednesday, February 3, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President authorizes use of government property in Springfield, Ill., 
for soldiers' home.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A352' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Richard Yates</xref>, 3 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:167.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews C. K. Hawkes, who represents former Cong. Ashmun (Mass.), 
probably about cotton.
<bibl default='NO'>Ashmun to Lincoln, 2 February 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Visits Arsenal to observe trials of Absterdam shell.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-04'>Thursday, February 4, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends to Edward Everett "the manuscript of my remarks at 
Gettysburg" for delivery to Ladies Committee of New York Metropolitan 
Sanitary Fair.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A353' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward Everett</xref>, 4 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:167-68.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate correspondence between Union and Confederate 
authorities on exchange of prisoners.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A355' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 4 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:168.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Dr. Zacharie and Goodman L. Mordecai of South Carolina, 
who thanks President for releasing him from Washington prison where 
he had been confined as Confederate agent.
<bibl default='NO'>Bertram W. Korn, <title>American Jewry and the Civil War</title> (Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951), 199.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Mrs. Goddard is dinner guest.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:531.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-02-05'>Friday, February 5, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Assoc. Justice Davis and friends visit Lincoln in afternoon. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Davis to Lincoln, 5 February 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> </p> <p> Receives January salary warrant for $2,022.33. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
  Finances</title>, 183.</bibl> </p> <p> Transmits to Senate report from
  secretary of state regarding reciprocity treaty with Sandwich Islands. 
  <bibl default='NO'>
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A357' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 5
  February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:169.</bibl> </p> 
  <p> Lincoln writes a comment on a letter addressed to Secretary of War Edwin M.
  Stanton from Richard M. Edwards, who seeks clarification regarding a United
  States "oath of office requir[ement]." Edwards, of Tennessee, wishes to lead a
  Union regiment, but previously, he was "forced . . . to take an oath 'to
  support the confederate constitution.'" Lincoln writes, "On principle I dislike
  an oath which requires a man to swear he <uLine>has</uLine> not done wrong. It
  rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think
  it is enough if the man does no wrong <uLine>hereafter</uLine>." 
  <bibl default='NO'>
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A358' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M.
  Stanton</xref>, 5 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:169-70.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-02-06'>Saturday, February 6, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln makes one of many sick calls on Cong. Lovejoy (Ill.)
  and remarks: "This war is eating my life out. I have a strong impression that I
  shall not live to see the end." <bibl default='NO'>Edgar DeW. Jones,
  <title>Lincoln and the Preachers</title> (New York: Harper, 1948), 69.</bibl>
  </p> <p> During afternoon reception discusses with Francis B. Carpenter,
  artist, ideas for portraying first reading of Emancipation Proclamation. 
  <bibl default='NO'>William O. Stoddard, <title>Lincoln's Third Secretary: The
  Memoirs of William O. Stoddard</title>, ed. by William O. Stoddard, Jr. (New
  York: Exposition Press, 1955), 221.</bibl> </p> <p> At night O. H. Browning
  approaches Lincoln on behalf of Mrs. Fitz, who owns slaves and cotton and is a
  refugee. President, in bad humor, will not discuss matter. <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
  </p> <p> [Irwin withdraws $24 from Springfield Marine Bank, to pay insurance on
  Lincoln's Springfield home. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>] </p> <p>
  "Reception by <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>
  exceeded all that have preceded it." <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 10
  February 1864.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln writes to Major General Nathaniel P.
  Banks concerning an assignment for Gustavus Scroggs, of Buffalo, New York.
  Lincoln explains, "Scroggs . . . has been appointed colonel of a colored
  regiment, and is to report with it to you at New Orleans." Lincoln proposes
  that Banks order Scroggs's regiment "to Texas, charged to collect and organize
  the colored men of that State, it being believed that such a nucleus as this
  regiment, and such an experienced organizer of troops as Col. Scroggs . . .
  will prove highly successful." <bibl default='NO'>
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A359' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Nathaniel P.
  Banks</xref>, 6 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:170-71; Samuel P. Bates, <title>History of Pennsylvania Volunteers,
  1861-5</title> (Harrisburg: B. Singerly, 1871), 1026.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-07'>Sunday, February 7, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President endorses request of Union man, impressed into Confederate 
service: "Mr. [Cong. Portus] Baxter of Vermont is very anxious to 
have the request granted at once."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A361' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement: Release of A. H. Gray</xref>, 7 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:171.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-08'>Monday, February 8, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Sen. Doolittle (Wis.) and makes known to him 
certain views of 
<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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A369' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 8 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:174.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Accompanied by family, visits Washington Theatre to see Laura Keene 
in "Sea of Ice."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 9 February 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws $33.55 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
Lincoln assures Gov. Isaac Murphy (Ark.) that Gen. Steele will 
support Murphy's plan to organize state government.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A366' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isaac Murphy</xref>, 8 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:173-74.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-09'>Tuesday, February 9, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln confers with F. B. Carpenter in White House study. Judge Adv. 
Gen. Holt calls and remains most of morning. In afternoon several 
cabinet members visit Lincoln. At 3 P.M. President and Carpenter walk 
to M. B. Brady's studio. Several photographs made, including one 
later used on $5 bill.
<bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 32; Frederick H. Meserve and Carl Sandburg, <title>The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln</title> (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1944), 9 February 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Evening White House levee largest of season. Robert Lincoln attends. 
President in good health.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 10 February 1864; Washington National Republican, 10 February 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-02-10'>Wednesday, February 10, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President devotes morning to courtmartial cases. Receives
  public at 1 P.M. <bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 39.</bibl> </p> <p> Delegation of
  18 gentlemen from convention at Allegheny City, Pa., calls on President to
  discuss amending Constitution in favor of freedom. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 15 February 1864.</bibl> </p> <p>
  President's private stables, brick building between Executive Mansion and
  Treasury Dept., "took fire and burned down" at 8:30 P.M. <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Hay, 10 February 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library
  of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> <p>In the evening, a fire destroys
  President Lincoln's "private stables." A newspaper reports, "[Mr.] Cooper, the
  President's private coachman, left the stable to get his supper about 8
  o'clock, and he was first notified of the fire by the President himself, who
  discovered the smoke . . . The building . . . contained . . . six horses, all
  of which were burned to death . . . One of these ponies was all the more highly
  prized, in consequence of having once been the property of Willie, the deceased
  son of Mr. and Mrs. President Lincoln." <bibl default='NO'>Robert W. McBride,
  <title>Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln</title> (Indianapolis, IN:
  Bobbs-Merrill, 1926), 44-46; <title>Evening Star</title> (Washington, DC), 11
  February 1864, 3:1.</bibl> </p> <p> President's two horses, John Nicolay's two
  horses, and Tad's two ponies are lost. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle,
  11 February 1864.</bibl> </p> <p> Hours later, "Lincoln and others were
  standing in the East Room looking at the still burning stables. Lincoln was
  weeping. Tad explained it was because Willie's pony was there." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Robert W. McBride, <title>Personal Recollections of Abraham
  Lincoln</title> (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926), 44-45.</bibl> </p> <p>
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> continues to send
  flowers to Sanitary Fair. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 10 February
  1864.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-11'>Thursday, February 11, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews G. A. Van Duyn of Springfield, Ill., regarding 
permit to trade South.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A381' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 11 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:178.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Endorses recommendation that $800,000 be appropriated by Congress to 
reimburse Pennsylvania for cost of militia in U.S. 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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A382' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning Pennsylvania Militia</xref>, 11 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:178.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Commissioner French relative to rebuilding White House stables.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe, 595.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews George Marshall of St. Louis on business, following 
introduction by Cong. William R. Morrison (Ill.).
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A405' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 16 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:189; Morrison to Lincoln, 11 February 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Robert consults his father on point of law. Two unidentified Kentucky 
gentlemen visit Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 45.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Committee from Synod of Reformed Presbyterian Church solicits support 
of President for amendment to Constitution extending freedom.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 12 February 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Patterson McGee, dismissed as President's coachman on day White House 
stables burned, is arrested on charge of having started fire.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 12 February 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President inquires of 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 what is to be done about War Dept. 
order giving Bishop Edward R. Ames control and possession of all 
Methodist churches in certain southern military departments. "'I 
will not have control of any church on any side.'"
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A384' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 11 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:178-80.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-12'>Friday, February 12, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"Little of particular importance in the Cabinet meeting."
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President writes Sec. Chase: "I have felt considerable anxiety 
concerning the Custom House at New York. . . . I am convinced that he 
[Hiram Barney] has ceased to be master of his position. . . . I 
propose sending Mr. Barney Minister to Portugal, as evidence of my 
continued confidence in him." J. F. Bailey, special agent of 
Treasury, assumes to be collector. Public interest will suffer in his 
hands.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A388' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, [12 February] 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:181.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-02-13'>Saturday, February 13, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln interviews Gen. Judson Kilpatrick from Army
  of Potomac. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 13 February 1864; Sedgwick to Lincoln, 11
  February 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Atty. Gen. Bates calls on
  Lincoln to discuss presidential election. <bibl default='NO'>Bates,
  <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President gets new
  stables to replace those destroyed by fire. Congress appropriates $12,000. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XIII, 3.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President attends afternoon reception
  but is unwell. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A391' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 13 February 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:182.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s Saturday afternoon reception
  draws large crowd, including Gen. Sickles and member of staff. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
  Star, 13 February 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-15'>Monday, February 15, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln calls at Treasury Dept. to discuss replacement for Hiram 
Barney as collector of customs at 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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A395' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 15 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:184.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests Gen. Sickles to make tour for observation and information 
from Cairo, Ill., to New Orleans and return by sea.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A396' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Daniel E. Sickles</xref>, 15 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:185.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Does not approve bill to guarantee republican form of government to 
states in rebellion.
<bibl default='NO'>Albert G. Riddle, <title>Recollections of War Times: Reminiscences of Men and Events in Washington, 1860-1865</title> (New York: Putnam, 1895), 298.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, accompanied by Robert and Harvard friends, attends 
evening tableaux at Willard's. Performance by amateurs of 
&#233;lite of Washington for benefit of Sanitary Commission.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 16 February 1864; Washington National Republican, 16 February 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt on courtmartial cases.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:532.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests, through Nicolay, that James E. Murdoch read enclosed poem, 
"Am I For Peace? Yes!," at benefit for U.S. Sanitary Commission this 
evening.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:532.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-16'>Tuesday, February 16, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"No matters of much moment at the Cabinet."
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President forwards to House of Representatives documentation touching 
arrest of [J. R. Giddings] U.S. consul general to British North 
American Provinces.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A401' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 16 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:187-88.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Congress information about claim of owners of French 
ship "La Manche."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A402' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 16 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:188.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives copy of Gen. Blair's speech on confiscated property through 
Postmaster Gen. Blair.
<bibl default='NO'>Blair to Lincoln, 16 February 1864, 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='1864-02-17'>Wednesday, February 17, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President of Washington Lecture Association calls on Lincoln and 
invites him to attend lecture on "The Nation after the Ordeal of 
Battle."
<bibl default='NO'>Invitation, 17 February 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln explains to William M. Fishback, of Little Rock, Ark., that 
Gen. Steele, commanding the military, must be master of situation 
leading to formation of state government; "but that it will probably 
be best for him to merely help the convention on it's own plan."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A407' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William M. Fishback</xref>, 17 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:189-90.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Instructs Steele to fix day for election; but it "is probably best 
that you merely assist the convention on their own plan."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A409' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Steele</xref>, 17 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:190-91.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-02-18'>Thursday, February 18, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President raises blockade on port of Brownsville, Tex. 
  <bibl default='NO'>
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A412' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Concerning Blockade</xref>,
  18 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:192-93;
  Washington Star, 19 February 1864.</bibl> </p> <p> Baltimore Constitutional
  Convention adopts resolutions endorsing Lincoln for reelection. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 19 February 1864.</bibl> </p> <p> President
  interviews Gen. George R. Davis of Troy, N.Y., regarding "a case of peculiar
  hardship." <bibl default='NO'>Griswold to Lincoln, 18 February 1864, Robert
  Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln writes to Massachusetts Governor John
  A. Andrew, who complained, "[F]reemen and refugees from slavery, desiring to
  pass northward . . . seeking to better their fortunes . . . are forcibly and against
  their will detained." Lincoln suspects that Andrew's overriding objective is
  "to raise colored troops." Lincoln responds, "If . . . it be really true that
  Massachusetts wishes to afford a permanent home . . . for . . . colored persons . . . I
  shall be only too glad to know it. . . . I would not for a moment hinder from going,
  any person who is free by the terms of the proclamation or any of the acts of
  Congress." <bibl default='NO'>John A. Andrew to Abraham Lincoln, 12 February
  1864, 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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A410' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. Andrew</xref>,
  18 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:191.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-02-19'>Friday, February 19,
  1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  recognizes Eli B. Budd as consul of Costa Rica at New York. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
  Star, 22 February 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "A fair, plump lady" from Dubuque,
  Iowa, who merely wants to see Lincoln, interrupts cabinet meeting. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>In
  the afternoon, President Lincoln and his family host a "private reception" in
  the White House for some "celebrated little people." Lincoln's guests include
  Charles Nestel and his sister Eliza Nestel, of Ft. Wayne, Indiana. The siblings
  are members of an entertainment troupe that is performing at Washington, D.
  C.'s Odd Fellows' Hall. The Nestels are better known, respectively, by the
  stage names Commodore Foote and the Fairy Queen. A newspaper reports that a
  large number of the "<ital>elite</ital>...of the city" have been attending the
  "wonderful performances." <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Evening Star</title> (Washington, D.C.),
  20 February 1864, 2:5, 3:1.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Attend evening performance by Edwin
  Booth in "Richard the Third" at Grover's Theatre. <bibl default='NO'>Washington National
  Republican, 20 February 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-20'>Saturday, February 20, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President attends <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s regular Saturday afternoon 
reception. Band plays for small crowd.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 20 February 1864; Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Promises to see J. F. Bailey, who is expected in Washington by first 
of next week.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A418' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 20 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:195.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-22'>Monday, February 22, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives endorsement of Republican National Committee by 
majority of four to one.
<bibl default='NO'>Thomas Harry Williams, <title>Lincoln and the Radicals</title> (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), 311.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves act of Congress creating office of lieutenant general and 
nominates Gen. Grant for honor.
<bibl default='NO'>Arnold, 518.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Discusses Missouri politics with Atty. Gen. Bates in afternoon.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 7:30 P.M., with <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Robert, takes part in opening of 
Patent Office Fair for benefit of Christian Commission and families 
of District volunteers. Following speech by L. E. Chittenden and poem 
by Commissioner French, Lincoln makes impromptu speech, which Mrs. 
Lincoln describes as "the worst speech I ever listened to in my life."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 23 February 1864; Sidney Kramer, "Lincoln at the Fair," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title>, 3 (September 1945):340-41; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A426' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Opening of Patent Office Fair</xref>, 22 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:197-98.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln, presumably, drafts letter to Cong. Benjamin F. Loan (Mo.) 
for signature of 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: "The President's wish is that no 
objection shall be made to any paper respectfully expressing it's 
preference for the <uLine>nomination</uLine> of any candidate; but 
that the patronage of the government shall be given to none which 
engages in cultivating a sentiment to oppose the 
<uLine>election</uLine> of any when he shall have been fairly 
nominated by the regular Union National Convention."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A425' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Loan</xref>, 22 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:197.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Congress copy of correspondence regarding presentation 
of watch to master of American schooner "Highlander" by Lords of the 
Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council for 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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A428' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 22 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:198-99.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gen. Steele: "Your conferrence [<uLine>sic</uLine>] with 
citizens [Arkansas] approved. Let the election be on the fourteenth 
of March, as they agreed."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A431' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Steele</xref>, 22 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:199.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-02-23'>Tuesday, February 23,
  1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln promises to
  write Sec. Chase further about "paper issued by Senator Pomeroy," [printed
  circular opposing renomination of Lincoln and advocating nomination of Chase.] 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A434' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 23 February 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:200-1; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 573-75.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives information that Indianapolis, Ind., convention unanimously
  instructed delegates for Lincoln. <bibl default='NO'>Thompson to Usher, 23 February 1864,
  Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Hugh McCulloch, comptroller of
  currency, on money matters. <bibl default='NO'>McCulloch to Lincoln, 24 February 1864,
  Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet meets without Chase and two other
  members. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Judge Henniker of Pennsylvania calls on President with note from Cong.
  Stevens (Pa.). <bibl default='NO'>Stevens to Lincoln, 23 February 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President confers with William H. Schofield, who is
  interested in Baker University at Baldwin, Kans. <bibl default='NO'>Schofield to Lincoln, 24
  February 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "The reception at the
  Presidential Mansion last evening was undoubtedly the largest that has taken
  place this winter." <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 24 February 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>President Lincoln writes to young Willie Smith, whom Lincoln has learned
  from "Your friend, Leroy C. Driggs...[that] you are a very earnest friend of
  mine." Lincoln thanks Smith for his friendship, and he encourages the boy to
  continue to "take so lively an interest in what just now so deeply concerns
  us." Smith, Lincoln writes, is a member of the generation that will one day
  "take charge of this country when we older ones shall have gone." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A436' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Willie Smith</xref>, 23 February 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:202.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-24'>Wednesday, February 24, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President meets with political delegation from New York, as arranged 
by Sen. Morgan (N.Y.).
<bibl default='NO'>Morgan to Lincoln, 24 February 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Issues pass to Simon Cameron and friends to Fortress Monroe, Va., and return.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A438' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Pass for Simon Cameron</xref>, 24 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:203.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-25'>Thursday, February 25, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Joseph Merrifield, who has filed complaint 
against Gen. Butler.
<bibl default='NO'>Merrifield to Lincoln, 25 February 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Former Cong. Casey (Ky.) consults with Lincoln about bringing cotton 
out of Red River area.
<bibl default='NO'>Casey to Lincoln, 25 February 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President notifies Sec. Chase to arrange 7 P.M. White House interview 
for J. F. Bailey about New York customs organization.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A442' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 25 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:204.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> visit Grover's Theatre for performance by 
Edwin Booth in role of Brutus in "Julius Caesar."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 26 February 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln telegraphs Gen. Steele: "General Sickles is not going to 
Arkansas. He probably will make a tour down the Mississippi, and home 
by the Gulf and ocean, but he will not meddle in your 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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A445' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Steele</xref>, 25 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:204-5.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-02-26'>Friday, February 26, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln issues an order concerning deserters. "The President
  directs that the sentences of all deserters, who have been condemned by Court
  Martial to death, and that have not been otherwise acted upon by him, be
  mitigated to imprisonment during the war, at the Dry Tortugas, Florida . . .
  The Commanding Generals, who have power to act on proceedings of Courts Martial
  in such cases, are authorized in special cases to restore to duty deserters
  under sentence, when in their judgment the service will be thereby benefited." 
  <bibl default='NO'>
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A453' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Commuting Sentence of
  Deserters</xref>, 26 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:208.</bibl> </p> <p> Interviews Col. John W. Shaffer, Gen. Butler's chief of
  staff, relative to public slander of Butler. <bibl default='NO'>
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A452' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning Benjamin F.
  Butler</xref>, 26 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:207.</bibl> </p> <p> Cabinet meets, with three members present. Political
  affairs discussed. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> President occupies
  regular private box at Grover's Theatre to see Edwin Booth play two roles,
  Shylock and Don Coeur de Bazan in "Merchant of Venice." <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 27 February 1864.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-02-27'>Saturday, February 27, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln visits Capitol to see "Antrobus," a picture of Gen. Grant.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 28 February 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
White House reception "pretty well" attended by visitors and foreign 
dignitaries.
<bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 29 February 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln replies to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
's request for instructions in 
relation to report of special commission to revise the enrollment and 
quotas of the city and state of New York: "I think this report may, 
on full consideration, be shown to have much that is valuable in it, 
. . . and that it be especially considered whether it's suggestions 
can be conformed to without an alteration of the 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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A458' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 27 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:210-11.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-02-28'>Sunday, February 28, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President receives report that in joint caucus
  Union members of Ohio Legislature voted unanimously for his renomination. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Day to Dennison, 27 February 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of
  Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Telegraphs Adjt. Gen. Thomas at Louisville, Ky.: "I wish you would go to the
  Mississippi river at once, and take hold of, and be master in, the contraband
  and leasing business." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A460' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Lorenzo Thomas</xref>, 28 February 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:212.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-02-29'>Monday, February 29,
  1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President sends
  autograph copy of Gettysburg Address to George Bancroft for Baltimore Sanitary
  Fair. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A461' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George Bancroft</xref>, 29 February 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:212.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President
  Lincoln responds to a recent letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Salmon
  P. Chase, who wrote to Lincoln in light of the publication of the "Pomeroy
  Circular." Senator Samuel Pomeroy, of Kansas, cast doubts on Lincoln's chances
  for re-election and suggested that Chase would make a better Republican
  candidate. Lincoln writes that although he has "not yet read" the circular, he
  "was not shocked, or surprised" to learn of its existence. Lincoln agrees that
  neither man should be "justly held responsible for what our respective friends
  may do without our instigation or countenance." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A462' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 29 February 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:212-13.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Assoc.
  Justice David Davis says of Chase's aspirations, "Mr. Lincoln must be
  'obstinately pacific.'" <bibl default='NO'>Davis to Weed, 14 March 1864, Thurlow Weed
  Papers, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.</bibl>]
  </p>
         <p> Interviews Cong. Rufus P. Spalding (Ohio) and former Cong. Riddle
  (Ohio), consul at Matanzas, Cuba, representatives of Chase hoping to learn if
  President was connected with Postmaster Gen. Blair's speech attacking Chase. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Albert G. Riddle, <title>Recollections of War Times: Reminiscences of Men
  and Events in Washington, 1860-1865</title> (New York: Putnam, 1895),
  270-77.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits to House of Representatives report from
  secretary of war relative to the reenlistment of "Veteran Volunteers." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A465' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 29 February 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:214.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Communicates
  to Senate articles of agreement concluded with Swan Creek, Black River
  Chippewas, and the Munsees or Christian Indians in Kansas. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A467' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, [29] February 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:215.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>