<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-01'>Friday, April 1, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Sen. Harlan (Iowa) who asks that Col. Edward 
Hatch be nominated for brigadier general.
<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%3A610' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 1 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:279.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Irwin withdraws from Springfield Marine Bank $9 for semiannual 
payment of interest on scholarship at Illinois State University.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
Lincoln thanks Rev. Frederick A. Farley, secretary of Brooklyn and 
Long Island Fair, who transmitted from "a few of your 
fellow-citizens" gift of silk bedspread formed of "National Colors."
<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%3A607' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Frederick A. Farley</xref>, 1 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:278.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-02'>Saturday, April 2, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President discusses with A. W. Thompson fiscal and political plan 
devised by latter.
<bibl default='NO'>Thompson to Cameron, 3 April 1864, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Thompson to Lincoln, 3 April 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Prepares draft of order to prohibit exportation of salted provisions 
except those packed and shipped from state or territory bordering on 
Pacific Ocean.
<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%3A611' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Prohibiting Export of Salted Provisions</xref>, 2 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:279.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Butler invites President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> to visit Fortress Monroe, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 4:9.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President, <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, and Mrs. Grant attend performance of "Faust" 
at Grover's Theatre.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 4 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-04-03'>Sunday, April
  3, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln confers
  with Joseph H. Barrett, commissioner of pensions, concerning attempted movement
  to postpone Baltimore Convention, called to meet in June. <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%3A612' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joseph H. Barrett</xref>, 3 April 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:279-80.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At night
  O. H. Browning calls on President on behalf of Ludwell Y. Browning, prisoner at
  Camp Douglas, Ill., and sees draft of Lincoln's letter addressed to A. G.
  Hodges. <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-04'>Monday, April 4, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends congratulations to Isabel II, Queen of Spain, on 
birth of daughter.
<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%3A618' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isabel II</xref>, 4 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:283.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lays before Senate treaty with Nez Perc&#233; Indians in Washington 
Territory.
<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%3A620' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 4 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:284.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Discusses French-Mexican situation with Sec. Seward. Administration 
supports neither country. House of Representatives passes resolution 
disapproving French occupation of Mexico.
<bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 358.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, who is introduced by Gen. Halleck.
<bibl default='NO'>Philip H. Sheridan, <title>Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan</title>, 2 vols. (New York: C. L. Webster, 1888), 1:347.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
With <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> visits Grover's Theatre for performance of Weber's 
"Der Freisch&#252;tz."
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>; Washington Star, 4 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln puts in writing substance of interview with A. G. Hodges, 
Gov. Bramlette (Ky.), and former Sen. Dixon (Ky.): "I am naturally 
anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not 
remember when I did not so think, and feel. . . . I have done no 
official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on 
slavery. . . . I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, 
might become lawful, by becoming indispensible to the preservation of 
the constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or 
wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. . . . I made earnest, 
and successive appeals to the border states to favor compensated 
emancipation, . . . They declined the proposition; and I was, in my 
best judgment, driven to the alternative of either surrendering the 
Union, and with it, the Constitution, or of laying strong hand upon 
the colored element. I chose the latter. . . . It shows a gain of 
quite a hundred and thirty thousand soldiers, seamen, and laborers. . 
. . I add a word which was not in the verbal conversation. In telling 
this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to 
have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have 
controlled me."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A617' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges</xref>, 4 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:281-83.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Offers suggestions to Gen. Rosecrans regarding: 1. Order No. 61 
concerning oaths of allegiance;2. Reported assassinations of returned 
Confederates; 3. Enlistment of Negroes not conducted in orderly 
manner.
<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%3A619' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 4 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:283-84.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-05'>Tuesday, April 5, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President postpones regular Tuesday evening reception one week.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 5 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Dennis F. Hanks, relative and lifelong friend of Lincoln, thanks him 
for $50 check.
<bibl default='NO'>Hanks to Lincoln, 5 April 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln, accompanied by <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, visits Grover's Theatre to hear 
Flotow's opera "Martha" sung by Orion Society with Grand Orchestra of 
Academy of Music, N.Y.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives March salary warrant for $2,022.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Acknowledges petition of "the Children of the United States; that the 
President will free all slave children" submitted by Mrs. Horace 
Mann: "Please tell these little people I am very glad their young 
hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I 
have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember 
that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do 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%3A625' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Horace Mann</xref>, 5 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:287.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-04-06'>Wednesday, April 6, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Mrs. Masson calls on Lincoln and asks that James H.
  McEwen, prisoner of war at Rock Island, Ill., be pardoned. <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%3A629' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John Catron</xref>, 6 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:288.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President decides
  that Gen. Butler need not come to Washington relative to plan for exchange of
  prisoners. <bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>,
  4:29.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Attends meeting in House of Representatives at night, to
  hear speech of George Thompson, English antislavery orator. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
  Star, 7 April 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-07'>Thursday, April 7, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews G. Thompson and friends on subject of 
emancipation, then conducts them to state dining room to see painting 
by F. B. Carpenter.
<bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 76.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> plan to visit Fortress Monroe, Va., "some 
time next week."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A631' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler</xref>, 7 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:289.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President transmits to House of Representatives report of secretary 
of war regarding transfer of Maj. Nathaniel H. McLean.
<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%3A633' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 7 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:290.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-08'>Friday, April 8, 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>
"The President, with <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Sec. Seward and family, will 
visit Ford's Theatre this evening to witness Edwin Forrest's grand 
impersonation of King Lear."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 8 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-09'>Saturday, April 9, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President invites conference: "Will Senator Sumner please call and 
see me this morning?"
<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%3A643' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles Sumner</xref>, 9 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:293.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Charles W. Butts, of Pennsylvania, former cavalry officer, 
regarding return to Portsmouth, Va.
<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%3A638' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler</xref>, 9 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:292.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Spends more time than usual with guests at last afternoon reception of season.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 9 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-11'>Monday, April 11, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln postpones trip to Fortress Monroe, Va., because <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> is unwell.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A644' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler</xref>, 11 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:293-94.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews L. H. Putnam, "a very intelligent colored man," and sends 
him to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to discuss Negro forces.
<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%3A649' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 11 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:295.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Endorses military pass issued to John Ehler, aged 10: "They say that 
by the destruction of a bridge this boy has been unable to pass on 
this. Might it not be renewed for the little fellow?"
<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%3A645' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning John Ehler</xref>, 11 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:294.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-12'>Tuesday, April 12, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends congratulations to Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, 
on birth of nephew.
<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%3A653' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Alexander II</xref>, 12 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:296-97.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Joint committee of City Councils of Washington visits President and 
calls attention to excess of quota set for District.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 13 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Principal subjects of discussion are exportation of 
French tobacco and national debt.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-14'>Thursday, April 14, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President reviews 67 courtmartial cases.
<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%3A658' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 14 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:298; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A659' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 14 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:298-99.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Henry C. Lea, Philadelphia pamphleteer associated with Union League.
<bibl default='NO'>Lea to Lincoln, 18 April 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with judge advocate general on court martial cases.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:538.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-15'>Friday, April 15, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln sends to Senate supplemental treaty with Chippewa 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%3A660' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 15 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:299.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Secs. Chase and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 and Postmaster Gen. Blair 
absent. Topics of general interest only.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-04-16'>Saturday, April 16, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President authorizes transfer of Fort Smith, Ark.,
  and Indian Territory to Dept. of Arkansas. <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%3A662' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 16 April 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:300.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> News of
  disaster of Red River expedition reaches White House. <bibl default='NO'>Monaghan,
  <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 359.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "The
  President is quite indisposed today, we regret to say, and is not receiving
  visitors." <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 16 April 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Orders Provost
  Marshal Gen. James B. Fry to put on record "that the Philadelphia quotas be
  adjusted for the calls of 1863 and 1864 already made." <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%3A661' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James B. Fry</xref>, 16 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:299-300.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> On
  recommendation of DeWitt C. Leach, agent of Mackinac Indian Agency, Detroit,
  Mich., that certain public lands be withdrawn from sale and added to Little
  Traverse Indian Reservation, Lincoln directs Sec. Usher: "Let the lands be
  withheld from sale as recommended." <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%3A663' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John P. Usher</xref>, 16 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:300.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-17'>Sunday, April 17, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln receives invitation from William J. Albert, president, 
Maryland Sanitary Commission Fair, to be his guest while in Baltimore 
for fair on 18th.
<bibl default='NO'>Albert to Lincoln, 17 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='1864-04-18'>Monday, April 18, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place> and <place key='39.2833, -76.6000' teiForm='name'>Baltimore, MD</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln commutes courtmartial sentences of 20 prisoners sentenced to be shot.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 18 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Chippewa Indian chiefs in East Room of White House and 
conducts them on tour.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 19 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Participates in program opening Maryland Sanitary Commission Fair. 
Gov. Bradford (Md.) delivers eloquent address before crowd of 6,000 
to 8,000, followed by 15-minute speech by Lincoln. President refers 
to change in Union sentiment since 1861 in Baltimore. It "is part 
only of a far wider change. When the war began, three years ago, 
neither party, nor any man, expected it would last till now. . . . So 
true is it that man proposes, and God disposes." Comments on meaning 
of liberty and massacre reported at Fort Pillow, Tenn.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 19 April 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%3A665' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland</xref>, 18 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:301-3.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> does not attend Baltimore fair.
<bibl default='NO'>Ladies of Knitting Circle to <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, 19 April 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='1864-04-19'>Tuesday, April 19, 1864.</date>
            <place key='39.2833, -76.6000' teiForm='name'>Baltimore, MD</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President returns to Washington in morning from Baltimore.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 19 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recognizes G. B. Carruti as consul of Italy at San Francisco and F. 
de Luca at New Orleans.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 21 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Does not attend cabinet meeting.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Rests preparatory to night reception at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>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>
Large crowd overruns White House at last reception of season. 
President gives "warm salutation and a pleasant word" to "official 
and social intimates."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 20 April 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-04-20'>Wednesday, April 20, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President empowers Gen. Meade to commute death
  sentences by courtmartial to imprisonment on Dry Tortugas, Fla., for duration
  of war. <bibl default='NO'>War Dept. Special Order, 20 April 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%3A453' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  Commuting Sentence of Deserters</xref>, 26 February 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:208;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A678' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 21 April 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:307.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cong. Joseph
  Bailey (Pa.) confers with President on undisclosed matter. <bibl default='NO'>Bailey to
  Lincoln, 20 April 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Thomas H. Ford,
  Lieutenant Governor of Ohio under Gov. Chase, and Capt. Jasper K. Herbert
  converse with Lincoln for hour. <bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 4:104.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President poses in White House office for photographs requested by F. B.
  Carpenter. <bibl default='NO'>Frederick H. Meserve and Carl Sandburg, <title>The Photographs
  of Abraham Lincoln</title> (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1944), 20 April
  1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Confers in afternoon with Gen. Grant, who returns to Army
  of Potomac tomorrow. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 21 April 1864; Ulysses S. Grant,
  <title>Personal Memoirs</title>, 2 vols. (London: Low, Marston, Searle &amp;
  Rivington, 1886), 2:141.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-21'>Thursday, April 21, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President reviews 72 courtmartial cases.
<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%3A678' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 21 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:307.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa about 
enlistments and calls another meeting for 7 P.M., with Gen. Halleck 
and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 present.
<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%3A681' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 21 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:308.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-22'>Friday, April 22, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Secs. Seward, Chase, and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 absent.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President approves bill placing inscription, "In God We Trust," on 
coins. First used on 2-cent piece.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 54.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-23'>Saturday, April 23, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends John Hay to Fortress Monroe, Va., with Asst. Sec. Fox 
for conference with Gen. Butler.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A688' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gustavus V. Fox</xref>, [23 April 1864], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:310.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders withdrawal of Gen. Blair's resignation and his assignment to 
new command.
<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%3A692' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 23 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:312.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Accepts proposition of governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, 
and Wisconsin to raise 85,000 men to serve 100 days in approaching 
campaign.
<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%3A693' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 23 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:312-13.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Mrs. Ward, sister of late John M. Weimer, and refers to 
Gen. Rosecrans her request for permission to return to St. Louis.
<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%3A689' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 23 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:310-11.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate report of secretary of war regarding appointment 
of brigadier generals.
<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%3A690' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 23 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:311.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends to Congress copy of note from Lord Lyons to secretary of state 
on subject of two British naval officers who recently received 
medical treatment at naval hospital at Norfolk.
<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%3A691' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 23 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:311.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-24'>Sunday, April 24, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln "loafs" in John Hay's room. Laughs at attack on President 
Davis in Richmond "Examiner." In evening confers with Gen. Burnside 
about opening campaign.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-25'>Monday, April 25, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President requests Dr. Gray to proceed to Elmira, N.Y., and decide 
upon sanity of Pvt. Lorenzo C. Stewart, under sentence of death.
<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%3A694' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John P. Gray</xref>, 25 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:313-14.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
 From eastern portico of Willard's reviews Gen. Burnside's 30,000 
troops en route from Annapolis, Md., to reinforce Army of Potomac. In 
evening Gov. Curtin (Pa.) visits White House. Lincoln discusses F. B. 
Carpenter's painting with him.
<bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 81.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends regrets to John R. Woods, secretary of Illinois Sanitary 
Commission, that "I cannot be present at the inauguration of your 
Soldiers Home this week" in Springfield, Ill.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A700' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John R. Woods</xref>, 25 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:316.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-26'>Tuesday, April 26, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Secs. Chase and 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 and Postmaster Gen. Blair absent.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Photographers from M. B. Brady's studio work in White House to make 
stereoscopic studies of Lincoln in his office.
<bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 91.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President reviews 51 courtmartial cases.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:540.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-04-27'>Wednesday, April 27, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President interviews Gen. Solomon Meredith relative
  to dismissal of Lt. Samuel H. Meredith, his son. <bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;WR RG 107,
  Off. Sec. War, Orders and Endorsements, BB 14/2656.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Delivers
  commission as major general to Gen. Blair at White House. <bibl default='NO'>Clarence E.
  Macartney, <title>Lincoln and His Cabinet</title> (New York: Scribner, 1931),
  288.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Confers with former Cong. Riddle (Ohio), ready to assume
  duties as consul at Mantazas, Cuba. <bibl default='NO'>Albert G. Riddle,
  <title>Recollections of War Times: Reminiscences of Men and Events in
  Washington, 1860-1865</title> (New York: Putnam, 1895), 266-67.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Writes endorsement for Herman [J.] Huidekoper, of Pennsylvania: "I know nothing
  of the young man within named, except by hearsay, which is all in his favor.
  His brother Lt-Col. [Henry S.] Huidekoper, who lost an arm at Gettysburg, I do
  know, and for his sake I would be very glad for the advancement of the young
  man." <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%3A702' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement
  Concerning Herman Huidekoper</xref>, 27 April 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:317.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Congratulates
  Gov. Murphy (Ark.) on successful organization of state government. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A706' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Isaac Murphy</xref>, 27 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:318.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Reviews 36
  courtmartial cases. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  8:540.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-28'>Thursday, April 28, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President relates to John Hay story of Gen. Meigs coming to Soldiers' 
Home in July 1862, waking him, and urging retreat of Army from 
Harrison's Landing, Va.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Pvt. Charles G. Russell, deserter, who voluntarily 
surrenders to avoid arrest and punishment.
<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%3A712' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Whom It May Concern</xref>, 28 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:321-22.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Tad at Metropolitan Hotel in New York, telegraph 
for $50 and report on goats.] Lincoln answers: "The draft will go to 
you. Tell Tad the goats and father are very well&#8212;especially the 
goats."
<bibl default='NO'>Helm, <title corresp='books_Helm'>Mary</title>, 239; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A709' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 28 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:320.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln sends statement to House of Representatives regarding 
military status of 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%3A708' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 28 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:319-20.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Congress "Address to the President of the United States 
. . . on the condition and wants of the people of East 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%3A711' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 28 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:321.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-29'>Friday, April 29, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President forwards to Senate information on affairs in Nevada Territory.
<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%3A715' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 29 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:322-23.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Tells Sec. Welles circumstances of his giving pass to Martha Todd 
White, half-sister of <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Spends part of evening at War Dept.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-04-30'>Saturday, April 30, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President discusses with O. H. Browning and former Sen. Thomas Ewing 
(Ohio) case of Commodore Charles Wilkes guilty of unauthorized 
publication of letters of Sec. Welles, and case of Capt. Samuel Black.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Liberates 26 Sioux Indians from Camp McClellan, 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%3A722' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order for Pardon of Sioux Indians</xref>, 30 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:325-26.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
F. B. Carpenter introduces Lincoln to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, leader 
in women's rights movement, and her brother-in-law, Samuel Wilkeson, 
head of New York "Tribune" bureau in Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 101.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
After midnight Lincoln visits offices of John Nicolay and John Hay to 
show caricature by Thomas Hood and enjoy laugh.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Acknowledges invitation to attend Grand Musical Festival in 
Philadelphia on Wednesday, May 4, 1864. "I shall be most happy to be 
present at an entertainment which promises so much, especially as it 
is in aid of so beneficent a charity as that in which you are 
interested, if my engagements next week will allow 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%3A718' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James R. Fry</xref>, 30 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:323-24.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Grant and expresses "entire satisfaction with what you 
have done up to this time, . . . If there is anything wanting which 
is within my power to give, do not fail to let me know. And now with 
a brave Army, and a just cause, may God sustain you."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A719' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 30 April 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:324-25.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>