<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-03-01'>Tuesday, March 1, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Lincoln writes to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and
  intercedes on behalf of a "poor widow, by the name of Baird." Lincoln explains,
  "[She] has a son in the Army, that . . . has been sentenced to serve a long
  time without pay, or . . . with very little pay. I do not like this punishment
  of withholding pay&#x2014;it falls so very hard upon poor families. After he
  has been serving in this way for several months, at the tearful appeal of the
  poor Mother, I made a direction that he be allowed to enlist for a new term . .
  . She now comes, and says she can not get it acted upon. Please do it." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Lincoln to Stanton, 1 March 1864, Edwin M. Stanton 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%3A473' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M.
  Stanton</xref>, 1 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:217.</bibl> </p> <p> Sends to Senate nomination of Gen. Grant to be
  lieutenant general. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 2 March 1864.</bibl>
  </p> <p> Cabinet meets. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> "This evening the
  President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> will
  entertain at the Executive Mansion the members of Congress and their families .
  . . no cards of invitation have been issued to any other person." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington National Republican, 1 March 1864, 2 March
  1864.</bibl> </p> <p> On letter of this date from Sec. Chase, introducing "Mr.
  Metcalf" who wishes to paint Lincoln's portrait, he writes, "Nix." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Chase to Lincoln, 1 March 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='1864-03-02'>Wednesday, March 2, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln sends autograph to New England Kitchen, connected with 
Brooklyn Sanitary Fair, as means of raising funds.
<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%3A480' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the New England Kitchen</xref>, 2 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:220.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Messrs. Chase and Earl of Toledo, Ohio, about appointment 
of postmaster.
<bibl default='NO'>Sherman to Lincoln, 2 March 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cong. Abel C. Wilder (Kans.) confers with President regarding Kansas affairs.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 2 March 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln, while sitting for F. B. Carpenter, recites soliloquy of King 
in "Hamlet" from memory.
<bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 49.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
With family visits Grover's Theatre for Edwin Booth's appearance in "Hamlet."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 3 March 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-03-03'>Thursday, March 3, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President confers with Committee on Conduct of War regarding
  commander of Army of Potomac. <bibl default='NO'>U.S. Congress, Joint Committee
  on the Conduct of the War, <title>Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct
  of the War</title>, 3 vols., 38th Cong., 2d sess. (Washington, DC: Government
  Printing Office, 1865), I, xix.</bibl> </p> <p> Interviews Mrs. James Moran,
  who asks that her minor son be released from service. <bibl default='NO'>Morgan, Rhinehart &amp; Co. to Lincoln, 3 March 1864, Robert Todd
  Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> </p> <p> Receives report that Maine Legislature has adopted
  resolutions to continue present administration. <bibl default='NO'>Blaine to
  Lincoln, 3 March 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> <p> Confers with Sec.
  Welles on promotion of Col. J. R. Hawley and vote of thanks to Commodore
  Cadwalader Ringgold (USN). <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> Approves speech
  of Gen. Steele to people of Arkansas and thanks him for 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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A484' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Frederick
  Steele</xref>, 3 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:221-22.</bibl> </p><p>Lincoln writes to General-in-Chief Henry W. Halleck
  regarding Colonel Thomas L. Alexander. Alexander is the Deputy Governor of the
  Soldiers' Home, Lincoln's retreat located outside of Washington, D. C. Lincoln
  writes, "The relations between Col. T. L. Alexander and myself . . . have been
  very agreeable, and I feel great kindness for him and his family. I therefore
  shall be personally obliged, if you can, consistently with the public service,
  assign him some duty at Louisville, Ky., suitable to a retired officer." 
  <bibl>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck, 3 March 1864, <title>CW</title>,
  10:228; Elizabeth Smith Brownstein, <title>Lincoln's Other White House: The
  Untold Story of the Man and His Presidency</title> (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley
  &amp; Sons, 2005), 73;Virginia Jeans Laas, ed., <title>Wartime Washington: The
  Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee</title> (Urbana: University of
  Illinois Press, 1991), 145<ital>n</ital>; Matthew Pinsker, <title>Lincoln's
  Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home</title> (New York: Oxford
  Press, 2003), 168.</bibl></p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-04'>Friday, March 4, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Rear Adm. Dahlgren calls at White House for news of his son, Ulric.
<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%3A486' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler</xref>, 4 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:222.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
H. Villard interviews Lincoln for permission to publish letters 
exchanged between President and Sec. Chase relating to Pomeroy secret 
circular.
<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%3A487' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 4 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:222-23.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
J. W. White, New York antislavery leader, calls on Lincoln and 
suggests that Gen. Grant be made general in chief responsible only to 
President.
<bibl default='NO'>White to Lincoln, 4 March 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"A pleasant Cabinet meeting." Chase and Postmaster Gen. Blair absent. 
Secs. Seward and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 have private laugh about what they regard as 
Chase's "dilemma" concerning decision to run for President.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and family visit Grover's Theatre to see Edwin Booth play 
"Richelieu."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 5 March 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln deposits January salary warrant for $2,022.33 in Riggs Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes memorandum about churches: "I have written before, and now 
repeat, the United States Government must not undertake to run the 
churches. . . . It will not do for the United States to appoint 
trustees, supervisors, or other agents for the churches."
<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%3A489' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum about Churches</xref>, 4 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:223.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-05'>Saturday, March 5, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President proclaims ratification of treaty with Great Britain 
settling claims of Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural 
Companies.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 11 March 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives February salary warrant for $2,022.34.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> holds Saturday afternoon reception.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington National Republican, 5 March 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-06'>Sunday, March 6, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 call at Rear Adm. Dahlgren's residence 
with telegram from Gen. Butler announcing that Dahlgren's son, on 
raid against Richmond, is alive.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-03-07'>Monday, March 7, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President issues order establishing starting point of Union
  Pacific Railroad on western boundary of state of Iowa. <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%3A500' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Designating Starting Point of Union
  Pacific Railroad</xref>, 7 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:228.</bibl> </p> <p> Directs that
  application of French government to import tobacco from insurgent territory be
  granted. <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%3A501' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order in Regard to Export of
  Tobacco</xref>, 7 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:229.</bibl> </p> <p> Interviews Gov. Willard P. Hall (Mo.) on status of
  affairs in Missouri. <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%3A505' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M.
  Stanton</xref>, 7 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:230.</bibl> </p> <p> Congratulates Queen Victoria on birth of grandson. 
  <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%3A507' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Queen Victoria</xref>,
  7 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:231.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Attends Grover's Theatre for performance of Edwin Booth in "The Fool's
  Revenge." <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 8 March 1864.</bibl> </p> 
  <p> Telegraphs Gen. Butler: "Gen. Meade has Richmond Sentinel, saying that Col.
  Dahlgren was killed, and ninety of his men captured at King &amp; Queen C. H.
  <uLine>When</uLine> did Kilpatrick's informant last see Col. Dahlgren?" 
  <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%3A496' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F.
  Butler</xref>, 7 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:226.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln writes to Congressman John A. J. Creswell, of
  Maryland, regarding a move to end slavery in that state. Lincoln writes, "I am
  very anxious for emancipation to be effected . . . I think it probable that my
  expressions of a preference for <uLine>gradual</uLine> over
  <uLine>immediate</uLine> emancipation, are misunderstood. . . . My wish is that
  all who are for emancipation <uLine>in</uLine> <uLine>any</uLine>
  <uLine>form</uLine>, shall co-operate, all treating all respectfully . . . What
  I have dreaded is the danger that by jealousies, rivalries, and consequent
  ill-blood . . . the friends of emancipation themselves may divide, and lose the
  measure altogether." <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%3A497' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. J.
  Creswell</xref>, 7 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:226-27.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-08'>Tuesday, March 8, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President Lincoln meets Gen. Grant face to face for first time.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay, <title corresp='books_Nicolay1'>Lincoln's Secretary</title>, 195-96; Ulysses S. Grant, <title>Personal Memoirs</title>, 2 vols. (London: Low, Marston, Searle &amp; Rivington, 1886), 2:121.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Col. Marcellus Mundy regarding use of property in Mound 
City, Ill., for government hospital.
<bibl default='NO'>Mundy to Lincoln, 8 March 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives report that New Hampshire elections have gone to Union 
ticket by large majority.
<bibl default='NO'>Rollins and Chandler to Lincoln, 8 March 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> begin receiving guests at 8 P.M. 
Tremendous crowd. Grant arrives at 9:30 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 9 March 1864; Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln confers with Grant about ceremony following day, when new 
commission of lieutenant general will be presented Grant.
<bibl default='NO'>John G. Nicolay and John Hay, <title>Abraham Lincoln: A History</title>, 10 vols. (New York: Century, 1890), 8:340-41; William E. Curtis, <title>The True Abraham Lincoln</title> (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1903), 255-56.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Promenades with Mrs. W. H. Seward, Grant with <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>.
<bibl default='NO'>Memoranda, 8 March 1864, 9 March 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-09'>Wednesday, March 9, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President presents commission as lieutenant general to Gen. Grant at 
1 P.M. in cabinet chamber in presence of cabinet, Gens. Halleck and 
John A. Rawlins, Cong. Lovejoy (Ill.), and John Nicolay.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 10 March 1864; Washington Star, 9 March 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Reads brief remarks: "The nation's appreciation of what you have 
done, and it's reliance upon you for what remains to do, in the 
existing great struggle, are now presented with this commission, 
constituting you Lieutenant General in the Army of the United 
States." Grant replies: "I feel the full weight of the 
responsibilities now devolving on me and know that if they are met it 
will be due to those armies, and above all to the favor of that 
Providence which leads both Nations and men."
<bibl default='NO'>Ulysses S. Grant, <title>Personal Memoirs</title>, 2 vols. (London: Low, Marston, Searle &amp; Rivington, 1886), 2:114-16; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A513' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, [9 March 1864], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:234-35.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Following ceremony President hears half-hour discussion of military 
affairs and operations of Gen. Sherman.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In afternoon receives copy of Sec. Chase's letter withdrawing from 
presidential race.
<bibl default='NO'>Memoranda, 9 March 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gen. Meade: "New York City votes 9,500 majority for 
allowing soldiers to vote, and the rest of the State nearly all on 
the same side. Tell the soldiers."
<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%3A511' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 9 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:233.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate report from secretary of interior respecting 
points of commencement of Union Pacific Railroad.
<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%3A512' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 9 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:233-34.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-03-10'>Thursday, March 10, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President assigns Lt. Gen. Grant to command Armies of United
  States. <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%3A517' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Assigning Ulysses S. Grant to
  Command of the Armies of the U.S.</xref>, [10] March 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:236.</bibl> </p> <p> President and
  Vice President are provided free postage in bill passed by Senate. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 11 March 1864.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln
  interviews James M. Scovel of Philadelphia on political affairs. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Scovel to Lincoln, 9 March 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> </p> <p> With <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person> visits Grover's Theatre for performance of "Richard III," last
  night in series of Shakespearean dramas featuring Edwin Booth. Grant has
  reservation but does not attend. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 11 March
  1864; Washington Chronicle, 11 March 1864.</bibl> </p> <p> On behalf of "Mrs.
  L.," President Lincoln invites Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and General
  George Meade "to dine with us Saturday evening." Lincoln asks Grant to "notify
  [Meade] . . . and answer whether you can be with us at that time." 
  <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%3A514' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S.
  Grant</xref>, 10 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:235.</bibl> </p> <p> Instructs Gen. Ramsay, if Absterdam projectile is
  offered at Hotchkiss prices, take it. "I am for the government having the best
  articles, in spite of patent controversies." <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%3A518' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George D.
  Ramsay</xref>, 10 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:236-37.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-03-11'>Friday, March 11, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Cabinet meets. Gen. Grant interrupts to tell President of plan
  to leave for Nashville. <bibl default='NO'>Ulysses S. Grant, <title>Personal
  Memoirs</title>, 2 vols. (London: Low, Marston, Searle &amp; Rivington, 1886),
  2:118; Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Gen. Alexander M. McCook calls on President. <bibl default='NO'>McCook to
  Nicolay, 11 March 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> </p><p>President Lincoln writes to Secretary of the
  Treasury Salmon P. Chase concerning Miss Rosie Bielaski. Lincoln explains,
  "[She] calls on me saying she has been discharged from her place as a clerk in
  your Department." Lincoln notes, "Her father was a Pole, whom I knew in
  Illinois, more than twenty years ago," and who died in one of the Civil War's
  "earliest battles, and left the family destitute." Lincoln adds, "I should be
  very glad for her to have a place, if it can be, consistently with the
  service." <bibl>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, 11 March 1864,
  <title>CW</title>, 10:230.</bibl></p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-12'>Saturday, March 12, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President's General Orders No. 98: 1. Gen. Halleck is relieved as 
General in Chief of Army, and Lt. Gen. Grant is assigned to command 
Armies of United States. 2. Gen. Halleck is assigned to duty in 
Washington as Chief of Staff. 3. Gen. Sherman is assigned to command 
of Military Division of Mississippi. 4. Gen. James B. McPherson is 
assigned to command of Department and Army of Tennessee.
<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%3A525' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>General Orders No. 98</xref>, 12 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:239-40.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President communicates to Senate report and papers relative to 
colonization of persons of African descent.
<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%3A528' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 12 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:241.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Gov. James Y. Smith (R.I.) about consolidating 1st and 3d Cavalry.
<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%3A529' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 12 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:241.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives evidence that Knights of Pythias are not a treasonable 
organization and dismisses their representatives.
<bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1005.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Attends regular Saturday afternoon reception between 1 and 3 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 12 March 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Invites Gen. Lewis Wallace to Executive Mansion for dinner with "some 
other General officers" at 6:45 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A530' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lewis Wallace</xref>, 12 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:241.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Entertains party of about 15 military men at White House banquet. 
Guests include Gens. Meade, Wool (retd.), Hunter, Sickles, Doubleday, 
and McCook. Grant accepted invitation, but is out of town.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 15 March 1864; Washington Star, 14 March 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin deposits in Springfield Marine Bank $185, balance of principal 
and interest on J. K. and T. Lewis note.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 165.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-03-13'>Sunday, March 13, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> J. H. Hackett, in Washington for week's theatrical engagement,
  visits Lincoln. <bibl default='NO'>Hackett to Lincoln, 9 March 1864, Robert
  Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> <p> Judge Hughes interviews President on behalf of
  A. Montgomery. <bibl default='NO'>Montgomery to Cameron, 20 March 1864, Simon
  Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln
  writes to Governor Michael Hahn and congratulates him on his recent election.
  Lincoln notes that Hahn will be remembered "as the first-free-state Governor of
  Louisiana." Lincoln suggests an agenda for the upcoming state constitutional
  convention. He advocates giving the vote to "some of the colored people,"
  specifically, "the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought
  gallantly in our ranks." Lincoln adds, "But this is only a suggestion, not to
  the public, but to you alone." <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%3A533' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Michael Hahn</xref>, 13
  March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:243.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Informs Gen. Schurz that he cannot take part in approaching political canvass
  without separating from military 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%3A534' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Carl Schurz</xref>, 13
  March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:243-44.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-03-14'>Monday, March
  14, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  issues call and orders draft for 200,000 men for military services. <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%3A536' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Draft
  Order for 200,000 Men</xref>, 14 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:245.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits to
  Congress treaty with Great Britain regarding claims of Hudson's Bay and Puget's
  Sound Agricultural Companies and recommends "appropriation to carry into effect
  the first, second, and third articles thereof." <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%3A540' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 14 March 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:246-47.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives
  Gov. Curtin (Pa.) at 7 P.M. on official business. <bibl default='NO'>Curtin to Lincoln, 14
  March 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library
  of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits to Senate report of
  secretary of interior regarding sale of Wea trust lands 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%3A539' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, [14] March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:246.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Invites early
  attention of Congress to convention with Ecuador requiring appointment of
  commissioners to adjust claims. <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%3A541' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 14 March 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:247.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-03-15'>Tuesday, March 15, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President directs land and naval forces to assist Gen. Sickles
  on official tour from Washington by way of Cairo, Ill., and New Orleans. [See
  February 15, 1864, February 25, 1864.] <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%3A549' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Whom It May
  Concern</xref>, 15 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:250.</bibl> </p> <p> Notifies Gov. Hahn (La.): "You are hereby invested with
  the powers exercised hitherto by the Military Governor of Louisiana." 
  <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%3A544' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Michael Hahn</xref>, 15
  March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:248.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Interviews "gallant drummer boy," Robert H. Hendershot, who rendered
  meritorious service at Battle of Fredericksburg, and gives him letter to
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>. <bibl default='NO'>Bell I. Wiley, "Boys in Blue," <title>Abraham Lincoln
  Quarterly</title> 6 (September 1951):429;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A546' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M.
  Stanton</xref>, 15 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:249.</bibl> </p> <p> Receives Gen. G. R. Davis upon introduction by Sen.
  Harris (N.Y.). <bibl default='NO'>Harris to Lincoln, 15 March 1864, Robert Todd
  Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> </p> <p> Cabinet meets and discusses issuance of proclamation
  calling for draft of 200,000 men. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> President Lincoln
  annotates a letter from Elijah Guion, Thomas Sloo, and John B. Morison, who
  represent St. Paul's Church, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The men object to the
  military's effort to take the "Church keys and property." Lincoln writes,
  "[T]he U.S. should not appoint trustees for or in any way take charge of any
  church as such. If the building is needed for military purposes, take it; if it
  is not so needed, let its church people have it, dealing with any disloyal
  people among them, as you deal with other disloyal people." <bibl default='NO'>
  John B. Morison, Elijah Guion, and Thomas Sloo to Abraham Lincoln, 5 March
  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%3A542' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning Churches in New
  Orleans</xref>, 15 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:247-48.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-16'>Wednesday, March 16, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Congress approves act extending franking privilege to all mail matter 
to or from President and Vice President.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 19 March 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln inquires of Gov. Murphy (Ark.): "What of your election on the 14th.?"
<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%3A550' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isaac Murphy</xref>, 16 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:250-51.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-17'>Thursday, March 17, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln requests Gen. Butler to telegraph, if "you obtain the remains 
of Col. Dahlgren."
<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%3A551' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler</xref>, 17 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:251.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Cong. Creswell (Md.): "It needs not be a secret, that I wish 
success to emancipation in Maryland. It would aid much to end the 
rebellion."
<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%3A552' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. J. Creswell</xref>, 17 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:251.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-18'>Friday, March 18, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Sec. Seward reads proposed bill for law on emigration.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> on invitation attend closing night of fair 
held in Patent Office for benefit of Christian Commission and 
District volunteers. Lincoln makes brief speech, ending: "God bless 
the women of America."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 19 March 1864; Washington Chronicle, 19 March 1864; Sidney Kramer, "Lincoln at the Fair," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title>, 3 (September 1945):341-42; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A558' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks at Closing of Sanitary Fair, Washington, D. C.</xref>, 18 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:253-54.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes recommendation for Benjamin A. Watson of Springfield, Ill., 
who wants commission of post sutler for Camp Butler, Ill.: he is "an 
intimate acquaintance and friend, and is of good character, and good 
qualification for the business he seeks. . . . I know nothing of the 
particular case."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A556' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning Benjamin A. Watson</xref>, 18 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:252-53.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 descriptions of several types of prisoners of war 
that might well be discharged. "I shall be glad therefore to have 
your cheerful assent to the discharge of those whose names I may 
send."
<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%3A559' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 18 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:254-57.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-03-19'>Saturday, March 19, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President recommends discharge of 16 Indians as
  named. <bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;WR RG 107, Off. Sec. War, EB 6, Entry 165.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Attends Saturday afternoon reception given by <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person>. <bibl default='NO'>Washington National Republican, 19 March 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-20'>Sunday, March 20, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
W. O. Stoddard returns to White House after recovering from typhoid 
and finds Lincoln resting on office lounge. They talk of many things, 
including Gen. Grant.
<bibl default='NO'>William O. Stoddard, <title>Inside the White House in War Times</title> (New York: C. L. Webster, 1890), 219-22.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-03-21'>Monday, March 21, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> President interviews Miss Susan Dugger and Miss Beattie from
  Illinois and gives them note to Postmaster Gen. Blair. <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%3A562' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Montgomery
  Blair</xref>, 21 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:257-58.</bibl> </p> <p> Approves "An Act to enable the people of Nevada to
  form a Constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State
  into the Union on an equal Footing with the original States." 
  <bibl default='NO'>
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A171' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Admitting Nevada into the
  Union</xref>, 31 October 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  8:83-84; Don C. Seitz, <title>Lincoln the Politician: How the Rail-Splitter and
  Flatboatman Played the Great American Game</title> (New York: Coward-McCann,
  1931), 408.</bibl> </p> <p> At 12 M. committee from New York Workingmen's
  Democratic Republican Association calls on President and presents address, to
  which Lincoln replies: "You comprehend, as your address shows, that the
  existing rebellion, . . . is, in fact, a war upon the rights of all working
  people." <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 22 March 1864;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A566' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to New York Workingmen's Democratic
  Republican Association</xref>, 21 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:259-60.</bibl> </p> <p> President Lincoln
  writes to siblings Clara Brown and Julia Brown and thanks the children for
  sending him an "Afghan." The Browns, of Buffalo, New York, asked Lincoln to
  "remember that you have little friends in Buffalo who pray for you." Lincoln
  answers, "I especially like my little friends; and although you have never seen
  me, I am glad you remember me for the country's sake, and even more, that you
  remember, and try to help, the poor Soldiers." <bibl default='NO'> Clara Brown
  and Julia Brown to Abraham Lincoln, 9 March 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%3A563' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Clara and Julia
  Brown</xref>, 21 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:258.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-22'>Tuesday, March 22, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President lays before Senate treaty with Shawnee Indians.
<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%3A570' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 22 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:261.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Despite snowstorm last evening there is fine attendance at public 
reception of President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, 8:30 to 11 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 23 March 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln's thought on slavery: "I never knew a man who wished to be 
himself a slave. Consider if you know any <uLine>good</uLine> thing, 
that no man desires for himself."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A569' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>On Slavery</xref>, 22 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:260-61.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-23'>Wednesday, March 23, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sens. Wade (Ohio) and Chandler (Mich.) again call on Lincoln 
demanding removal of Gen. Meade.
<bibl default='NO'>Thomas Harry Williams, <title>Lincoln and the Radicals</title> (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), 340.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln sends note to Gen. Schenck (resigned) as explanation of 
embarrassing incident at reception last evening.
<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%3A573' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 23 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:262.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Answers request of Gen. Schurz for permission to join political 
campaign: "Nor could I be justified to detail any officer to the 
political campaign during its continuance, and then return him to the 
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=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A574' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Carl Schurz</xref>, 23 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:262-63.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-03-24'>Thursday, March 24, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President summons Sen. Doolittle (Wis.) to White
  House for conference. <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%3A578' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James R. Doolittle</xref>, 24 March 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:265.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends to
  Senate report regarding establishment of monarchical governments in Central and
  South America. <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%3A581' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 24 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:265-66.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews former
  Gov. Newell (N.J.) on military problems. <bibl default='NO'>Newell to Lincoln, 24 March
  1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Confers with John Hay; reviews report
  on political situation in Florida. <bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Spends evening
  with Gen. Grant at White House. <bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 25 March 1864; Ulysses
  S. Grant, <title>Personal Memoirs</title>, 2 vols. (London: Low, Marston,
  Searle &amp; Rivington, 1886), 2:121-22.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-03-25'>Friday, March 25, 1864.</date> 
  <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline> <p> Cabinet meets. Sec. Welles calls attention to scarcity of
  seamen. Suggests transfer of 12,000 men from Army to Navy. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> 
  <p> Lincoln in his study all evening with F. B. Carpenter. Talks Shakespeare.
  Recites poem, "Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" 
  <bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six
  Months</title>, 58.</bibl> </p> <p> President Lincoln writes to Commissioner of
  Public Buildings Benjamin B. French regarding a bill in Congress that removes
  French's position "from the control of the Department of the Interior, and . .
  . enlarg[es] the powers and patronage of your office." Lincoln continues, "The
  proposed change may be right for aught I know." But, Lincoln adds, "[I]f the
  change is made, I do not think I can allow you to retain the office; because
  that would be encouraging officers to be constantly intriguing, to the
  detriment of the public interest, in order to profit themselves." 
  <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%3A583' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin B.
  French</xref>, 25 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  7:266-67.</bibl> </p> <p> Asks Thurlow Weed if it is true that he is hurt
  because one of his suggestions on how to run affairs of government was not
  followed. <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%3A585' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed</xref>, 25
  March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:268-69.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-26'>Saturday, March 26, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Sec. Welles in morning relative to transferring 
12,000 men from Army to Navy.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Further defines cases entitled to benefits of December 8, 1863, 
Amnesty Proclamation.
<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%3A586' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation About Amnesty</xref>, 26 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:269-70.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Discusses Negro enlistment in Kentucky with Gov. Bramlette (Ky.), 
former Sen. Archibald Dixon (Ky.), and Albert G. Hodges, editor of 
Frankfort, Ky., "Commonwealth," presented by Atty. Gen. Bates.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In afternoon sends for Welles and Asst. Sec. Fox and requests order 
for transfer of 12,000 men from Army to Navy.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[John Nicolay arrives in New York to represent President at 
conference with Thurlow Weed concerning political conditions and 
patronage.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Lincoln, 30 March 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-27'>Sunday, March 27, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President at War Dept. in evening for conference with Gens. Grant and 
Halleck and secretary of war.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 28 March 1864; Washington Chronicle, 28 March 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-28'>Monday, March 28, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President disturbed in morning by Francis Xavier, who reaches 
Lincoln's room and begins speech proving that Xavier was elected 
President in 1856.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 28 March 1864; Washington Chronicle, 29 March 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults with Gov. Bramlette (Ky.) on troop quotas and drafting of Negroes.
<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%3A590' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 28 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:272.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives note from Peter McConnell of Kansas, who wishes to present 
Rocky Mountain pony to Tad.
<bibl default='NO'>McConnell to Lincoln, 28 March 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='1864-03-29'>Tuesday, March 29, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Cabinet meets. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sec. Welles
  accompanies group or rear admirals, including Hiram Paulding (retd.) commanding
  Navy Yard at New York, C. H. Davis, Chief, Bureau of Navigation, S. H.
  Stringham (retd.), special duty, and Francis H. Gregory (retd.), superintending
  construction of gunboats, to White House and introduces them to President. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 29 March 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln, Mrs. Ulysses S.
  Grant, and others agree that Capt. Kinney should be recommended to Gen. Grant. 
  <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%3A591' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 29 March 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:272.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President
  writes Gen. Meade that there is no need for court of inquiry regarding
  publication of accounts discrediting Meade's operations at Gettysburg. <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%3A593' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 29 March 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:273-74.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits
  to Congress report of Charles B. Stuart, consulting engineer of New York,
  regarding improvements to pass gunboats from tidewater to northern and
  northwestern lakes. <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%3A595' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 29 March 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:274.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-03-30'>Wednesday, March 30, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Wisconsin Union State Convention at Milwaukee endorses Lincoln for reelection.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 1 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
James A. Hamilton,, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., invites President and Mrs. 
Lincoln to Metropolitan Fair as his guests.
<bibl default='NO'>Hamilton to Lincoln, 30 March 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[John Nicolay in New York writes President about conversation with Gen. Schurz.
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Lincoln, 30 March 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='1864-03-31'>Thursday, March 31, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Col. Thomas Worthington (resigned) and states in 
writing: "I did not think him fit for a Colonel."
<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%3A602' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning Thomas Worthington</xref>, 31 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:276.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Gen. Wallace on progress of bringing together Gov. 
Bradford (Md.) and Cong. Davis (Md.) on subject of emancipation.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A603' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 31 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:276-77.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 that Wallace is getting along very 
satisfactorily. "I have told him to be fair, but to give the benefit 
of all doubts to the emancipationists."
<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%3A603' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 31 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:276-77.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Asks 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 for favor: "I sincerely wish that something satisfactory 
to Lt. Col. Scates&#8212;an old personal friend &amp; most worthy 
gentleman&#8212;may be done for him."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A604' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 31 March 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:277.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[About this date sends check for $50.00 to Dennis Hanks, second 
cousin and boyhood companion.
<bibl default='NO'>Hanks to Lincoln, 5 April 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>