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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-01'>Sunday, May 1, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
In afternoon President takes Cong. Francis W. Kellogg (Mich.) and
Gov. Blair (Mich.) for drive.
<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%3A723' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Francis W. Kellogg</xref>, 1 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:326.</bibl>
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<date value='1864-05-02'>Monday, May 2,
1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President sends to
House of Representatives documentation relative to 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%3A725' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 2 May 1864,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:326-27.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Confers
with Cong. John F. Farnsworth (Ill.), former general of volunteers, regarding
court of inquiry requested by Gen. Hurlbut, recently transferred by order of
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%3A726' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Stephen A. Hurlbut</xref>, 2 May 1864,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:327-28.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-03'>Tuesday, May 3, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President directs Sec. Seward: "Please invite all members of the
Cabinet to be [present at the meeting today]."
<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%3A730' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 3 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:330.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
At cabinet meeting President requests each member to give written
opinion as to what course government should take in Fort Pillow,
Tenn., case.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A728' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Cabinet Members</xref>, 3 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:328-29.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Instructs L. E. Chittenden to proceed to Annapolis, Md., and
investigate condition of exchanged war prisoners.
<bibl default='NO'>Lucius E. Chittenden, <title>Recollections of President Lincoln and his Administration</title> (New York: Harper, 1891), 323.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-04'>Wednesday, May 4, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Richard H. Dana, U.S. district attorney in Massachusetts, calls on
Lincoln again after one year and finds him "sober, wise, thoughtful,
good decisions but having constant failures in administration."
<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), 414.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
L. E. Chittenden reports to President at 7 P.M. on terrible condition
of exchanged prisoners.
<bibl default='NO'>Lucius E. Chittenden, <title>Recollections of President Lincoln and his Administration</title> (New York: Harper, 1891), 323-38.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln writes Gen. Sherman at Chattanooga to do anything he can
consistently with military operations for suffering people in
Nashville area.
<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%3A731' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William T. Sherman</xref>, 4 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:330-31.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes check for $2.50 to Franklin and Co., opticians, 244 Penn. Av. NW.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:541.</bibl>
</p>
<quote>
<p>
[Battle of The Wilderness (Va.) begins.]
</p>
</quote>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-05'>Thursday, May 5, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
In evening Lincoln interviews Congs. Smith (Ky.) and Ashley (Ohio).
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Receives April salary warrant for $2,022.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Acknowledges gift of pair of socks from Mrs. Abner Bartlett of
Medford, Mass.: "I accept them as a very comfortable article to wear;
but more gratefully as an evidence, of the patriotic devotion which,
at your advanced age, you bear to our great and just cause. May God
give you yet many happy days."
<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%3A732' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Abner Bartlett</xref>, 5 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:331.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Authorizes and requires Secs. Chase and
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
to allow exportation
of horses bought for personal use of French Emperor and of Captain
General of Cuba.
<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%3A733' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase and Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 5 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:331.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-06'>Friday, May 6, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln receives request of George E. Perine, New York engraver, for
favorite photograph, to be engraved on steel.
<bibl default='NO'>Perine to Lincoln, 6 May 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Cabinet meets. Each member reads opinion on Fort Pillow, Tenn.,
incident. [Massacre of colored troops, April 12, 1864.]
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President in conference with
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
at War Dept. asks Charles
A. Dana, assistant secretary of war, to investigate and report
position of Gen. Grant.
<bibl default='NO'>Charles A. Dana, <title>Recollections of the Civil War. With the Leaders at Washington and in the Field in the Sixties</title> (New York: Appleton, 1902), 188.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Grants permission to Henry E. Wing, correspondent, New York
"Tribune," to send 100-word story of fighting in Wilderness to his
papers.
<bibl default='NO'>Harper, <title corresp='books_Harper'>Press</title>, 137-38.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Interrupts
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
and calls him from conference with Cornelius
R. Agnew, surgeon general of New York, and G. T. Strong.
<bibl default='NO'>George Templeton Strong, <title>Diary</title>, 4 vols., edited by Allen Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas (New York: Macmillan, 1952).</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-07'>Saturday, May
7, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President
receives first-hand report on Wilderness campaign from H. E. Wing, who arrives
about 2 A.M. on special locomotive. <bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 246.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Recognizes C. E. Leland as consul of Oriental Republic of Uruguay at New York
and John H. Snyder as vice consul. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14 May 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Marine band, after long intermission, inaugurates series of concerts
in White House grounds. President appears on portico and remarks: "In lieu of a
speech, I propose that we give three cheers for Major General Grant and all the
armies under his command." <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 9 May 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%3A736' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
at Marine Band Concert</xref>, 7 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:332.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Transmits to Senate
opinion by attorney general on "rights of colored persons in the army or
volunteer 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%3A737' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 7 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:332.</bibl>
</p>
<quote>
<p> [Grant's
Virginia campaign shifts to Spotsylvania Court House.] </p>
</quote>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-08'>Sunday, May 8, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Cong. Colfax (Ind.) with Lincoln in White House after Battle of
Wilderness, watches him pace "up and down in the Executive chamber."
An hour afterward sees Lincoln receiving congressional visitors and
telling story after story to hide his saddened heart.
<bibl default='NO'>Rice, 337-38.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-09'>Monday, May 9, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
At request of Cong. Garfield (Ohio), President interviews Lt.
Harrison Millard (resigned) relative to civil appointment.
<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%3A739' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hiram Barney</xref>, 9 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:332-33.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Recommends to friends of Union and liberty to unite in common
thanksgiving and prayer of gratitude for military success.
<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%3A740' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Friends of Union and Liberty</xref>, 9 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:333.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Recognizes Frederick Klumpp as consul of Würtemburg at New
Orleans and August Widemann at Ann Arbor, Mich.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14 May 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Receives news of failure of Gen. Banks' Red River expedition from
Gwinn H. Heap, clerk to Rear Adm. David D. Porter, accompanied by
Sec. Welles.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Highly pleased by dispatches reporting advances of Gen. Grant.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Responds to serenade by crowd at White House led by band from 27th
Michigan Volunteers.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A742' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response to Serenade</xref>, 9 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:334.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-10'>Tuesday, May 10, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Cabinet meets. President reads dispatches from Gens. Grant, Butler,
Sherman, and others.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
L. Montgomery Bond, on behalf of Sanitary Commission of Philadelphia,
requests letter of President to be sold at Great Central Fair in June.
<bibl default='NO'>Bond to Lincoln, 10 May 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln asks Gen. Wallace at Baltimore what trouble is with Dr.
Francis L. Hawks, rector of Christ Church, ordered to take oath of
allegiance or leave city within 24 hours. Order supported by Bishop
William R. Whittingham.
<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%3A746' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lewis Wallace</xref>, 10 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:335-36.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-11'>Wednesday, May 11, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President offers condolences to Christian IX, King of Denmark, on
death of "Madam the Landgrave Louise Charlotte of Hesse."
<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%3A748' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Christian IX</xref>, 11 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:336-37.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
9 P.M. Sec. Welles visits War Dept. and finds President waiting for
reports from battlefront.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-12'>Thursday, May
12, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President
forwards to Senate correspondence relative to controversy between Republic of
Chile and Bolivia. <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%3A753' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 12 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:338-39.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Declines offer of
Francis B. Loomis of New London, Conn., to replace present garrison of Fort
Trumbull, Conn., with volunteers. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A751' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to F. B. Loomis</xref>, 12 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:338.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Grants interview to
Miss Evans, who is lecturing in city at Dr. Channing's church. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
Star, 12 May 1864.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-13'>Friday, May 13, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Early morning. President and Sec. Seward are reading telegrams when
Sen. Nesmith (Oreg.) brings newspaper accounts of Gen. Grant's
activities.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln receives notice that Seward has made appointment for him to
interview W. Aime Humbert, envoy extraordinary of Swiss Confederation
to Japan, at 11 A.M. tomorrow.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 13 May 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Repeats endorsement concerning church in Memphis, Tenn.: "I say
again, if there be no military need for the building, leave it alone,
neither putting anyone in or out, of it, except on finding some one
preaching or practicing treason."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A754' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning a Church at Memphis, Tennessee</xref>, 13 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:339.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-14'>Saturday, May 14, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President receives request for his photograph and autograph, to be
auctioned off at Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair.
<bibl default='NO'>McClurg to Lincoln, 14 May 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Deeply affected by death of Gen. Wadsworth.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Replies to offer of Gov. Carney (Kans.) to furnish 2,000 troops: "I
shall neither accept or reject it, until, with reference to the
public interest, I shall feel that I am ready."
<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%3A756' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Carney</xref>, 14 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:340-41.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Transmits to Senate report of secretary of interior and documentation
relative to refugee Indians in Kansas.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A758' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 14 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:341-42.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-15'>Sunday, May 15, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
"The President is cheerful and hopeful—not unduly elated, but
seeming confident."
<bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 15 May 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln endorses request of Allison C. Poorman, of Illinois, for
permit to trade within lines of "Western Army": "The writer of the
within is a family connection of mine, & a worthy man; and I
shall be obliged if he be allowed what he requests, so far as the
rules and exigencies of the public service will permit."
<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%3A759' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning Allison C. Poorman</xref>, 15 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:342.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Endorses request of William F. Shriver, of Illinois, for permit to
trade within lines of "Armies of the Cumberland, Mississippi and
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%3A760' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning William F. Shriver</xref>, 15 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:342.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-16'>Monday, May 16, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President sends to Mrs. Augustus C. French, wife of former governor
of Illinois, autograph to be used at Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair.
<bibl default='NO'>Lincoln to French, 16 May 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
In possession of Cyrus French Wicker, Miami, Fla. Holds financial
conference relative to converting existing 5 per cent loan to 6 per
cent.
<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%3A772' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 18 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:347.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-17'>Tuesday, May 17, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President lays before Senate treaty with certain bands of 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%3A767' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 17 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:344-45.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln prepares order for draft of 300,000 men, "to increase the
active and reserved force of the Army, Navy, & Marine Corps of
the United States." [Order seems not to have been issued.]
<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%3A765' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order for Draft of 300,000 Men</xref>, 17 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:344.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Instructs
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: "Please notify the insurgents, . . . that the
government of the United States has satisfactory proof of the
massacre, . . . at Fort-Pillow," and outlines action government
proposes to take. [Presumably these instructions to
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
were
never signed and sent.]
<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%3A769' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 17 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:345-46.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-18'>Wednesday, May 18, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President orders arrest of editors and publishers
of New York "World" and "Journal of Commerce" for printing spurious
proclamation purporting to be signed by President. Publication of newspapers
suspended. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A773' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to John A. Dix</xref>, 18 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:347-50.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Interviews Dr.
Winston, who knows topography of Virginia, bears letters of recommendation, and
asks to be allowed to join 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%3A774' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 18 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:350.</bibl>
</p>
<p> 11 A.M. Responds to
address presented by delegation from General Conference of Methodist Episcopal
Church: "God bless the Methodist Church—bless all the churches—and
blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us 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%3A776' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response
to Methodists</xref>, 18 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
7:350-51.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Confers with Secs. Seward and <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person> at War Dept. regarding fraudulent proclamation
published in two New York newspapers. Rescinds order for arrest of editors and
publishers. <bibl default='NO'>Harper, <title corresp='books_Harper'>Press</title>, 293,
295.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Attends lecture on Battle of Gettysburg by Dr. J. R.
Warner in hall of House of Representatives. <bibl default='NO'>Randall,
<title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 3:17.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Suggests
to Sec. Chase: "Suppose you change your five per cent loan to six, allowing the
holders of the fives already out to convert them into sixes, upon taking each
an equal additional amount at six." <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%3A772' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 18 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:347.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-19'>Thursday, May 19, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President declares null and void exequatur heretofore given Charles
Hunt as consul of Belgium at St. Louis.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 20 May 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%3A730' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Revoking Recognition of Charles Hunt</xref>, 19 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:352.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-20'>Friday, May 20, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President declines invitation to visit Mississippi Valley Sanitary
Fair in 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%3A785' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Felix Schmedding</xref>, 20 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:354.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Interviews Thomas E. Morris, of New Jersey, who asks that his son be
appointed cadet.
<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%3A783' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum: Appointment of Josiah W. Morris</xref>, 20 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:353-54.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Recognizes Constantine P. Ralli as vice consul of Greece at St. Louis.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 25 May 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
[Irwin deposits in Springfield Marine Bank $350, rent from L. A. Tilton.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 166.</bibl>]
</p>
<p>
President writes order that no person engaged in trade following
published regulations of Treasury Dept. shall be hindered by Army or
Navy.
<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%3A784' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order Concerning Trade</xref>, 20 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:354.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-21'>Saturday, May 21, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President decides to lift publication ban on New York newspapers
"World" and "Journal of Commerce."
<bibl default='NO'>Harper, <title corresp='books_Harper'>Press</title>, 297.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Recognizes Carl C. Finkler as consul for Duchy of Nassau for California.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 25 May 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Act to provide temporary government for territory of Montana having
been passed, Lincoln instructs Atty. Gen. Bates and Sec. Seward to
brief applications for offices in so far as they relate to their
departments.
<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%3A792' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 21 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:356-57.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sends identical letters to Govs. Morton (Ind.), Yates (Ill.), William
M. Stone (Iowa), and James T. Lewis (Wis.): "The getting forward of
hundred day troops to sustain Gen. Sherman's lengthening lines
promises much good. Please put your best efforts into the work."
<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%3A790' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Oliver P. Morton</xref>, 21 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:355-56.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Replies to request of Christiana A. Sack, of Baltimore: "I can not
postpone the execution of a convicted spy, on a mere telegraphic
despatch signed with a name I never heard before. Gen. Wallace may
give you a pass to see him, if he chooses."
<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%3A791' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Christiana A. Sack</xref>, 21 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:356.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-23'>Monday, May
23, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President busy
with minor appointments and military arrests. <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%3A795' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Joseph Holt</xref>, 23 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:357;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A796' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Joseph Roberts</xref>, 23 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:358;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A797' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 23 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:358;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A798' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 23 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:358.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-24'>Tuesday, May 24, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President cheers Gov. Brough (Ohio) by quoting Gen. Grant: "'Everything looks exceedingly favorable for us.'"
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A800' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Brough</xref>, 24 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:359.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Transmits to House of Representatives information relative to joint
resolution concerning French monarchy in Mexico.
<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%3A801' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 24 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:359.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sec. Seward and Simon Cameron spend evening with President.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President recommends to Senate for promotion Lt. Comdr. Francis A.
Roe (USN) and 1st Asst. Eng. James M. Hobby (USN) for distinguished
conduct in battle between U.S.S. "Sassacus" and rebel ironclad ram
"Albermarle."
<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%3A730' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 3 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:360.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes note to
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
on letter of E. A. Paul, New York "Times"
correspondent, enclosing pass to Army of Potomac not approved by
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
: "The Times I believe is always true to the Union, and
therefore should be treated at least as well as any."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A804' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 24 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:360-61.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-25'>Wednesday, May 25, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President asks Gen. Meade if permit to pick up cast-off clothing of
Army should 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%3A806' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 25 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:361-62.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Officials of Pittsburgh Fair for benefit of U.S. Sanitary Commission
request President's autograph, to be sold at Fair.
<bibl default='NO'>O'Connor to Lincoln, 25 May 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln writes Cong. Arnold (Ill.) letter for use in canvass for
reelection: "I take it that your devotion to the Union and the
Administration can not be questioned by any sincere 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%3A805' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isaac N. Arnold</xref>, 25 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:361.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-26'>Thursday, May 26, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President discusses pay of Negro chaplains with Atty. Gen. Bates and
Sen. Sumner (Mass.).
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sec. Seward arranges 11:30 A.M. appointment for Baron von Gerolt with
President.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 24 May 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President recognizes John Hitz as consul general of Swiss
Confederation at Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 30 May 1864.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-27'>Friday, May 27, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Cong. John F. Driggs (Mich.) sends his son with gentleman and two
ladies from Connecticut to shake hands with President.
<bibl default='NO'>Driggs to Lincoln, 27 May 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Augustus N. Dickens of Chicago, brother of English novelist Charles
Dickens, requests President's autograph as keepsake.
<bibl default='NO'>Dickens to Lincoln, 27 May 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='1864-05-28'>Saturday, May
28, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln replies
briefly to resolutions presented by delegation from American Baptist Home
Missionary Society. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 28 May 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%3A814' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
to Delegation of Baptists</xref>, 28 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:365.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Transmits to Senate
partial report of secretary of state and documentation relative to Mexican
affairs. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A815' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 28 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:365.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Answers inquiry of
Cornelius A. Walborn, postmaster at Philadelphia, regarding visit to Great
Central Fair: "Whether I can during it's continuance must depend on
circumstances." <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%3A816' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Cornelius A. Walborn</xref>, 28 May 1864,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:365-66.</bibl>
</p>
<p> [Sometime
during this week <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> visits Armory
Square Hospital in capital and gives flower seeds. "Gazette" comments: "We have
been under obligations to this excellent woman, for contributions of flowers to
place in the Coffins of our deceased Soldiers, sent home for burial."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington, DC, Armory Square Hospital Gazette, 28 May 1864.</bibl>] </p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-30'>Monday, May 30, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln welcomes small son of Sen. Hicks (Md.), while father waits in carriage.
<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%3A821' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas H. Hicks</xref>, 30 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:367.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Referring to late Cong. Lovejoy (Ill.), who died March 25, 1864,
Lincoln writes: "He was my most generous friend. Let him have the
marble monument, along with the well-assured and more enduring one in
the hearts of those who love liberty."
<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%3A818' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John H. Bryant</xref>, 30 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:366-67.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes committee from American Baptist Home Mission Society in
response to resolutions presented by them. When those professedly
holy men of South, in semblance of prayer, appealed to Christian
world "to aid them in doing to a whole race of men, as they would
have no man do unto themselves," they contemned and insulted God.
"But let me forbear, remembering it is also written 'Judge not, lest
ye be judged.'"
<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%3A822' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. Ide, James R. Doolittle, and A. Hubbell</xref>, 30 May 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:368.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1864-05-31'>Tuesday, May 31, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln bows from window of White House, as children march by at 9
A.M. in Sunday school celebration.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 31 May 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Receives report from Cleveland, Ohio, convention of Republicans that
Gen. Fremont has been nominated for President.
<bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 363; Josiah G. Holland, <title>The Life of Abraham Lincoln</title> (Springfield, MA: G. Bill, 1866), 469-72.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Gen. Cochrane, resigned, attorney general of New York, consults with
President about Cleveland convention of Republicans.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sen. Wade (Ohio) and Capt. Herbert have interviews with President.
<bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 4:292.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Cong. Francis Thomas (Md.) sends autograph album to White House with
request that President write in it.
<bibl default='NO'>Thomas to Nicolay, 31 May 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln receives $883.30 in coin, being interest due him on $16,200
in 7 3/10 bonds in custody of U.S. treasurer.
<bibl default='NO'>Tuttle to Underwood, 31 May 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Contributes autograph to be sold along with those of other Presidents
at Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia. |
