<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <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 receives Mrs. Baird, widow, for second time about son in Army 
under sentence to serve without pay.
<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'>
         <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>
      </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'>
         <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> Writes Cong.
  John A. J. Creswell (Md.): "My wish is that all who are for emancipation in any
  form, shall co-operate, all treating all respectfully, and all adopting and
  acting upon the major opinion, when fairly ascertained." <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'>
         <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> Sends invitation to Grant: "Mrs. L. invites yourself and
  Gen. Meade to dine with us Saturday evening. Please notify him, 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'>
         <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>
      </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'>
         <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 Gov. Michael Hahn (La.): "I congratulate you on having 
fixed your name in history as the first-free-state Governor of 
Louisiana. Now you are about to have a Convention which, among other 
things, will probably define the elective franchise. I barely suggest 
for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people 
may not be let in&#8212;as, for instance, the very intelligent, and 
especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would 
probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of 
liberty within the family of freedom."
<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'>
         <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>
Lincoln expresses his view: "The 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'>
               <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'>
         <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 
C