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President congratulates José M. Medina on election to presidency of Republic of Honduras. Abraham Lincoln to José M. Medina, 1 June 1864, CW, 7:373.

Confers with Sec. Welles on appointment of midshipmen and with Gen. Schenck (resigned) on selection of retired officers' board members. Welles, Diary.

Visits telegraph office, reads New York "Herald" report on Cleveland, Ohio, convention, asks for Bible and reads aloud from it. Bates, Telegraph Office, 194.

[Irwin deposits in Springfield Marine Bank $645, principal and interest on I. Lindsay note. Pratt, Personal Finances, 166.]



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Lincoln receives notice from Gen. Rosecrans of conspiracy by Order of American Knights, reputedly led by former Cong. Vallandigham (Ohio) and by C. Hunt, to overthrow government. Documents should be transmitted by courier. Rosecrans to Lincoln, 2 June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

President Lincoln issues an order paroling Charles H. Jonas, "now a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island," located near Sandusky, Ohio. Captain Jonas is with the Confederate Army's 12th Regiment Arkansas Infantry. Lincoln grants Jonas "a parol of three weeks" so that he may "visit his dying father, Abram Jonas, at Quincy, Ill." Abra[ha]m Jonas became Quincy's Postmaster "upon...[Lincoln's] election," and, over the years, corresponded with Lincoln, who had once referred to the elder Jonas as "one of my most valued friends." Browning, Diary; Order for Parole of Charles H. Jonas, 2 June 1864, CW, 7:373; Charles M. Segal, "New Light on Lincoln's Parole of Charles H. Jonas," American Jewish Historical Society Vol. 42, No. 4 (June 1953): 407; Quincy Daily Whig Republican (IL), 14 June 1864, 3:3; Abraham Lincoln to Abraham Jonas, 4 February 1860, CW, 3:516.

A. K. McClure, delegate-at-large from Pennsylvania to National Union Party Convention, calls on Lincoln. Alexander K. McClure, Lincoln as a Politician (Putnam, CT: privately printed, 1916), 18.

Mrs. Lincoln attends opera, accompanied by Postmaster Gen. Blair and his daughter. Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.



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President Lincoln replies to a group of New York "loyal citizens," who invited him to attend a June 4 "mass meeting" to honor General Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln writes, "It is impossible for me to attend...My previous high estimate of Gen. Grant has been maintained and heightened by what has occurred in the remarkable campaign he is now conducting...I trust that at your meeting, you will so shape your good words that they may turn to men and guns moving to his and their support." Abraham Lincoln to Frederick A. Conkling and Others, 3 June 1864, CW, 7:374.

Interviews at White House groups of delegates en route to National Union Convention in Baltimore. Welles, Diary.

Approves act providing national currency, secured by pledge of U.S. bonds, and providing for circulation and redemption thereof. Stat. L., XIII, 99.

[Irwin draws $3.53 draft on Springfield Marine Bank, for taxes on Council Bluffs, Iowa, land. Pratt, Personal Finances, 177.]



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President continues to welcome all delegations to Baltimore Convention, knowing many will not be admitted: carpetbaggers, Negroes, sutlers claiming to represent states still in rebellion. Monaghan, Diplomat, 364; Hay, Letters and Diary.



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President will not commit himself on subject of candidate for Vice President. Brooks, Washington, 151.



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President interviews Prof. Eben N. Horsford of Cambridge, Mass., and Lewis H. Morgan, anthropologist of Rochester, N.Y., regarding Pvt. James McCarthy, Co. K, 140th New York Regiment, under sentence for attempt to desert. Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade, 6 June 1864, CW, 7:378.

Grants audience to Stephen C. Massett, lecturer, and gives him card of introduction to Prof. Henry. Massett to Lincoln, 6 June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Consults Sec. Chase about collector of customs at New York. Official Records—Armies 600-3.

Listens while John Hay reads letter from John Nicolay describing pre-convention activities in Baltimore. Instructs Hay to reply. Wishes not to interfere in nomination of Vice President and has no suggestion in regard to platform or organization of convention. Dennett, Hay Diaries and Letters, 186; Endorsement Concerning Leonard Swett and Joseph Holt, [6 June 1864], CW, 7:376-78.

Consults at length with Sen. Lane (Kans.) about national political situation and outlook. William O. Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times (New York: C. L. Webster, 1890), 240-41.

Receives May salary warrant for $2,022.34. Pratt, Personal Finances, 183.

Writes Gen. Henry W. Slocum at Vicksburg: "My friend, Thomas A. Marshall, . . . has some difficulty in managing a plantation in your Department. . . . I personally know, so far as such things can be known that Mr. Marshall is loyal, truthful, and honorable; and that I shall be glad for him to be obliged in any not unreasonable way." Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Slocum, 6 June 1864, CW, 7:378-79.



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Frederick C. Meyer, chairman, Baltimore Convention, telegraphs Lincoln: "The Convention has just been called to order everything progressing." Meyer to Lincoln, 7 June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

President interviews Burton C. Cook, chairman of Illinois delegation to Baltimore Convention. Charles E. Hamlin, Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1899), 474.

Great Central Fair of U.S. Sanitary Commission opens in Philadelphia. President unable to accept invitation to dedicate event. Welsh to Lincoln, 23 May 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

9 P.M. Marshal Lamon telegraphs Lincoln from Baltimore Convention: "Enthusiastic unanimity beyond even my expectations. Preliminaries not yet settled. Nomination to be made tomorrow." Lamon to Lincoln, 7 June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln deposits May salary warrant for $2,022.34 in Riggs Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 183.

Mrs. Lincoln goes to opera. Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.



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National Union Convention, meeting in Baltimore, nominates Lincoln for President. Washington Star, 9 June 1864.

Lincoln busy in morning at War Dept., in constant telegraphic communication with Gen. Grant. Hurries to White House for quick lunch and returns to War Dept. About 4:30 P.M. sees dispatch announcing nomination of Mil. Gov. Johnson (Tenn.) for Vice President. Learns announcement of his own nomination received two hours ago. Lamon, Recollections, 112-13; LL, No. 217.

Interviews James G. McAdam of New York on behalf of James A. McCrea, accused of procuring whiskey for soldiers at Beaufort, S.C. Abraham Lincoln to James G. McAdam, 10 June 1864, CW, 7:385-86.

Receives visit and congratulations from Mayor Wallach (Washington). Washington Star, 9 June 1864.

Attends Grover's Theatre in evening alone. Leonard Grover, "Lincoln's Interest in the Theater," Century Magazine 77 (April 1909):947.

President Lincoln forwards to Congress a communication from the Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton regarding the Enrollment Act, which instituted a military draft. Stanton suggested that Congress "repeal" the Act's "three hundred dollar clause," which allowed draftees to pay $300, in lieu of serving in the military. Stanton explained, "ample experience has now shown that the pecuniary exemption from service frustrates the object of the enrolment law, by furnishing money instead of men." Lincoln informs Congress that he "concur[s] with Stanton's "recommendation." Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives, 8 June 1864, CW, 7:380; Edwin M. Stanton to Abraham Lincoln, 7 June 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.



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President grants audience to Elisha H. Allen, envoy and minister from Hawaii, and exchanges short speeches with him. Reply to Elisha H. Allen, 9 June 1864, CW, 7:383; Seward to Lincoln, 6 June 1864, 7 June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Confers with A. H. Markland, post office official with army, regarding postal service orders which Sec. Stanton refuses to issue. Rice, 227.

Replies to notification committee headed by former Gov. Dennison (Ohio): "I will neither conceal my gratification, nor restrain the expression of my gratitude, that the Union people, through their convention, in their continued effort to save, and advance the nation, have deemed me not unworthy to remain in my present position." Reply to Committee Notifying Lincoln of His Renomination, 9 June 1864, CW, 7:380-83; Washington Star, 9 June 1864.

A day after the Republican Convention concluded in Baltimore, where the delegates re-nominated Lincoln for president, a committee delivers the news to President Lincoln. Lincoln also accepts the congratulations of the National Union League, and he remarks, "I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that 'it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.'" Reply to Delegation from the National Union League, 9 June 1864, CW, 7:383-84; Evening Star (Washington, D. C.), 9 June 1864, 2:4, The New York Times (NY), 10 June 1864, 1:6.

Receives congratulations of Philadelphia delegation to recent convention in Baltimore. Lamon, Recollections, 160.

Responds to serenade by Ohio delegation and Capt. A. Menter's American Cornet Band. Washington Star, 10 June 1864.

Consults with John Hay just before bedtime about message from Gen. Rosecrans concerning conspiracy to overthrow government. Hay, Letters and Diary.



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President hands John Hay note for Gen. Rosecrans at St. Louis, before Hay is out of bed. Hay, Letters and Diary.

Issues order: "Major John Hay, Assistant Adjutant General, will repair at once to St. Louis Missouri, and having executed my verbal instructions will return to his station here." Order to John Hay, 10 June 1864, CW, 7:386.

Interviews O. H. Browning at night relative to appointing Mrs. Abraham Jonas postmaster of Quincy, Ill. [See June 2, 1864.] Browning, Diary.

Sends Prof. Henry results of efforts to get pardon for Pvt. McCarthy. Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Henry, 10 June 1864, CW, 7:385.

Acknowledges receipt of Triennial Congregational Convention resolutions regarding day of national prayer, and atrocities committed on colored troops. Abraham Lincoln to Julian M. Sturtevant, 10 June 1864, CW, 7:388.



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Lincoln addresses 130th Ohio Volunteers, 100-day troops recently arrived in Washington. Remarks to One Hundred Thirtieth Ohio Regiment, 11 June 1864, CW, 7:388-89.

Confers with Atty. Gen. Bates, who protests confiscation Orders Nos. 30 and 33 of Gen. Wallace at Baltimore. Bates, Diary.

Approves act providing for execution of treaties between U.S. and foreign nations regarding consular jurisdiction over crews of foreign vessels in U.S. waters and ports. Stat. L., XIII, 121.

Turns over to secretary of treasury for reinvestment salary warrants for February 1864 and March 1864, with balance of $89 from purchase of notes on January 12, 1864, and all his government securities, total amount $54,515.07. Pratt, Personal Finances, 128, 183.



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President receives request from Gen. George W. Dietezeler, Kansas Militia, for permission to call out 2,000 militia for 80 days to protect state against bushwhackers. DNA—WR RG 107, Off. Sec. War, EB 6, Entry 387.



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President notifies officials of Great Central Fair in Philadelphia that he will leave Washington for Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon, June 16, 1864, and remain in Philadelphia till Thursday afternoon, June 17, 1864. Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Webster, 13 June 1864, CW, 7:390.

Directs Atty. Gen. Bates to give Gen. Wallace's confiscation Orders Nos. 30 and 33 to Sec. Stanton , who will issue order revoking them. Bates, Diary.

Thanks John Rogers, sculptor, for statuette groups, "Wounded Scout" and "Friend in the Swamp." Abraham Lincoln to John Rogers, 13 June 1864, CW, 7:389.

Transmits to Senate convention with United Colombian States to revive joint commission on claims. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, 13 June 1864, CW, 7:389.

Sends to Senate report from secretary of war on case of William Yocum, convicted of kidnaping. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, 13 June 1864, CW, 7:389-90.

Directs Adjt. Gen. Thomas to verify complaint that in vicinity of Henderson, Ky., "our military are seizing negroes and carrying them off without their own consent." Abraham Lincoln to Lorenzo Thomas, 13 June 1864, CW, 7:390.

John Nicolay starts on trip west because of poor health. Washington Star, 14 June 1864.



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President communicates with Robert: "My dear Son Of course I will try to give the sittings for the 'Crayon.' Your Father." [Probably Col. David H. Strother, whose pseudonym was "Porte Crayon," writer and artist employed by "Harper's New Monthly Magazine."] Abraham Lincoln to Robert Todd Lincoln, 14 June 1864, CW, 7:392.

In conversation with Noah Brooks, Lincoln says that he will be satisfied if war in Virginia is over within a year. Brooks, Washington, 149.



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President orders arrest of John S. Carlisle of West Virginia, engaged in treasonable correspondence with enemy of U.S. Order for Arrest of John S. Carlisle, 15 June 1864, CW, 7:393.

Writes Sec. Chase: "The Governor of Iowa and some of the M.C.'s have a little embarrassment about the removal of a Mr. [Robert J.] Atkinson, in your department, . . . Please help me a little. If you will write me a note that you do not wish Atkinson removed, that will end the matter." Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, 15 June 1864, CW, 7:392.

Telegraphs Gen. Grant: "Have just read your despatch of 1 P.M. yesterday. I begin to see it. You will succeed. God bless you all." Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, 15 June 1864, CW, 7:393.



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President and party, accompanied by committee of escort, leave Washington on special train at 7 A.M. for Philadelphia, to attend Great Central Fair in aid of U.S. Sanitary Commission. Webster to Lincoln, 15 June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; LL, No. 1315.

Stop briefly at Baltimore and Wilmington, Del.; arrive at Philadelphia and Continental Hotel about 11:30 A.M. Washington Star, 17 June 1864; LL, No. 1315.

President leaves hotel after lunch and arrives Logan Square fairgrounds at 4:15 P.M. Responds to toast at banquet in main assembly hall of fair: "War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible. . . . It has destroyed property, and ruined homes; . . . We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when the object is attained. . . . I have never been in the habit of making predictions in regard to the war, but I am almost tempted to make one.—If I were to hazard it, it is this: That Grant is this evening, with General Meade and General Hancock, of Pennsylvania, and the brave officers and soldiers with him, in a position from whence he will never be dislodged until Richmond is taken." Speech at Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 16 June 1864, CW, 7:394-96; Washington Star, 17 June 1864.

Gen. Wallace, Edward Everett, and others speak, following President's address. Several presents, including silver medal from ladies of fair, accepted by Lincoln with words of appreciation. President leaves fair for Union League Club in torchlight procession, without committee assigned to escort him. Speaks briefly at Union League Club in response to welcome by Daniel Dougherty, prominent Philadelphia lawyer and political orator. After reception by members of club, speaks again from front steps. LL, No. 1315; Speech Accepting Medal Presented by Ladies of the Fair, 16 June 1864, CW, 7:396-97.

Near midnight returns to hotel, where crowd insists upon an appearance. Speaks from balcony: "I attended the Fair at Philadelphia to-day in the hope that possibly it might aid something in swelling the contributions for the benefit of the soldiers in thefield, . . . I thought I might do this without impropriety. It did not even occur to me that a kind demonstration like this would be made to me. . . . I have really appeared before you now . . . to show to you that I am not wanting in due consideration and respect for you, when you make this kind of demonstration in my honor." LL, No. 1315; Speech at Hotel Continental, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 16 June 1864, CW, 7:398.

Unable to accept invitation to occupy reserved boxes at Arch Street Theatre in evening. Drew to Lincoln, 15 June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Transmits to Senate further report and papers relative to Mexican affairs. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, 16 June 1864, CW, 7:394.



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President and party depart Philadelphia 8 A.M. in special train for Washington. LL, No. 1315.

John Hay returns from St. Louis and reports to President on interview with Gen. Rosecrans. Dennett, Hay Diaries and Letters, 187.

Lincoln replies to request of Sen. Trumbull (Ill.) for information on reorganization of state government in Arkansas, that copies of documentation have been furnished Cong. Henry L. Dawes (Mass.). Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, 17 June 1864, CW, 7:398-99.



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President confers with Cong. Lucian Anderson (Ky.) and Judge Rufus K. Williams of Kentucky Court of Appeals relative to suspended assessments and appointment of Gen. Eleazer A. Paine. Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 18 June 1864, CW, 7:400.

Summons C. A. Walborn to Washington relative to article in New York "Tribune" charging official influence in political matters. Abraham Lincoln to Cornelius A. Walborn, 18 June 1864, CW, 7:400.

Recognizes C. F. Mebius as consul of Bavaria at San Francisco and Joseph Lang as consul of Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg at New Orleans. Washington Star, 21 June 1864.

Consults with O. H. Browning at night on D. L. Phillips and Commodore Wilkes cases and appointment of Ebenezer Moore of Illinois as secretary of Montana Territory. List of Applicants for Montana Appointments, [c. June 1864], CW, 7:371-72; Browning, Diary.

Writes Sec. Welles: "My old friend C. B. Denio, is in some trouble, pecuniarily, . . . I feel confident he has not meant wrong, and I shall be glad for you to do the best for him you can." Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles, 18 June 1864, CW, 7:401.

Transmits to Senate copy of dispatch from "Acting Consul of the United States at Havana" containing further evidence implicating J. A. Arguëlles in fraudulent sale of captured Negroes. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, 18 June 1864, CW, 7:399-400.



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President telegraphs Mrs. Lincoln at Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York: "Tad arrived safely, and all well." Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, 19 June 1864, CW, 7:401.

Attends funeral of 18 women killed in explosion at Arsenal and buried in Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E St. SE., on eastern branch of Potomac, about one and a half miles from Capitol. N.Y. Herald, 20 June 1864; Chicago Tribune, 20 June 1864.

Accompanied by John Hay, visits Ford's Theatre for sacred concert. William R. Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915), 1:147.



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President interviews C. A. Walborn relative to influencing suffrage among subordinates in Philadelphia post office. Memorandum of Interview with Cornelius A. Walborn, 20 June 1864, CW, 7:402.

Leaves Washington at 5 P.M. with Tad and Asst. Sec. Fox on U.S.S. "Baltimore," to visit Gen. Grant and army on James River. Washington Star, 21 June 1864; Welles, Diary.

Writes Gov. Brough (Ohio) and Gen. Heintzelman: "Consult together freely, watch Vallandigham and others closely, and, upon discovering any palpable injury, . . . arrest all implicated." [The envelope containing this letter is endorsed by Lincoln "Brough & Heintzelman—Not sent."] Abraham Lincoln to John Brough and Samuel P. Heintzelman, 20 June 1864, CW, 7:402.



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Arrives at City Point about noon. Gen. Grant and staff board steamer to welcome President, who has upset stomach. Lincoln refuses champagne because too many fellows get "seasick ashore from drinking that very stuff." Rests briefly at headquarters, then mounts Grant's horse "Cincinnati" and visits lines before Petersburg, Va. Grant rides "Jeff Davis." President reviews Negro troops under Gen. Edward W. Hinks and receives hearty cheers. Sits with Grant and staff in front of Grant's tent in evening for spell of story-telling. Sleeps on steamer. Dana to Stanton, 21 June 1864, Edwin M. Stanton Papers, Library of Congress, Washington DC; Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant (New York: Century, 1897), 216-24.

[President communicates to Senate convention between U.S. and Delaware Indians of Kansas. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, 21 June 1864, CW, 7:403.]



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At 8 A.M. President and Gen. Grant steam up James River to see that portion of lines and to visit flagship of Acting Rear Adm. Lee. Pick up Gen. Butler at Bermuda Hundred. Lee joins party and they go up river as far as considered safe. After 2 P.M. Butler and President return by steamer "Greyhound," and Lincoln leaves City Point soon afterward on U.S.S. "Baltimore" for trip to Washington. Butler, Correspondence, 4:424; N.Y. Herald, 25 June 1864; Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant (New York: Century, 1897), 216-24.



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President and Asst. Sec. Fox, who have been visiting Gens. Grant and Butler and Acting Rear Adm. Lee at City Point, Va., Bermuda Hundred, Va., and below Fort Darling, Va., arrive about 5 P.M. on U.S.S. "Baltimore." Washington Star, 24 June 1864.

President returns from front sunburned and tired, but refreshed and cheered. Hay, Letters and Diary.



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President telegraphs Mrs. Lincoln in Boston: "All well, and very warm. Tad and I have been to Gen. Grant's army. Returned yesterday safe and sound." Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, 24 June 1864, CW, 7:406.

Lays before Senate treaty with Kansas tribe of Indians. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, 24 June 1864, CW, 7:407.

Cabinet meets. President in good spirits. Welles, Diary.

Asks Atty. Gen. Bates for "opinion in writing as to what pay, bounty, and clothing are allowed by law to persons of color who were free on the 19th. day of April, 1861, and who have been enlisted and mustered into the military service of the United States between the month of December, 1862 and the 16th. of June 1864." Abraham Lincoln to Edward Bates, 24 June 1864, CW, 7:404-6.

Requests Gen. Rosecrans to report on complaint that Gen. Egbert B. Brown does not do his best to suppress bushwhackers. Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans, 24 June 1864, CW, 7:407.



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In morning Lincoln interviews Gen. Gillmore, who is awaiting orders. Washington Star, 25 June 1864.

Assures Atty. Gen. Bates that Gen. Wallace's two confiscation orders have been revoked. Bates, Diary.

At night President, Asst. Sec. Fox, and O. H. Browning go from White House to Navy Yard and witness throwing of rockets and signals from six- and twelve-pound guns. Return at 10 P.M. Browning, Diary.

President informs Senate that resolution consenting to appointment of John H. Goddard to be justice of peace is part of permanent records of Dept. of State. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, 25 June 1864, CW, 7:408-9.

Thanks Mrs. Louisa Drew for gift of theater tickets. [Once owned by late John Barrymore, actor, letter was destroyed by fire.] CW, 8:545.



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President confers with Sec. Welles on removal of Isaac Henderson, navy agent at New York. Abraham Lincoln to William C. Bryant, 27 June 1864, CW, 7:409-10.

Accepts nomination for presidency. Abraham Lincoln to William Dennison and Others, 27 June 1864, CW, 7:411-12.

Approves act to prevent smuggling, and for other purposes. Stat. L., XIII, 197.



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Cabinet meets. President attends "although slightly indisposed." Welles, Diary.

Transmits to Senate information in regard to maltreatment of passengers and seamen on board ships plying between New York and New Granada. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, 28 June 1864, CW, 7:415.

Communicates to Senate reports on alleged enlistment in foreign countries of recruits for military and naval service of U.S. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, 28 June 1864, CW, 7:415-16.

Approves act repealing fugitive slave act of 1850 and all acts and parts of acts for rendition of fugitive slaves. Stat. L., XIII, 200.

Approves joint resolution of Congress to incorporate Young Men's Christian Association of city of Washington. Stat. L., XIII, 411.

Explains to Sec. Chase that for political reasons Maunsell B. Field cannot be appointed assistant treasurer of U.S. at New York. Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, 28 June 1864, CW, 7:413-14.



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President telegraphs Mrs. Lincoln in New York: "All well. Tom is moving things out." ["Tom" may have been Thomas H. Cross, furnaceman at White House; Thomas Cross, doorkeeper; or T. Stackpole, watchman.] Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, 29 June 1864, CW, 7:417.

Sec. Chase resigns. Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, 28 June 1864, CW, 7:413-14.

President interviews L. E. Chittenden relative to temporary administration of treasury following resignation of Chase. Lucius E. Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln and his Administration (New York: Harper, 1891), 376-80.

Confers with Gov. Brough (Ohio) regarding Chase's resignation. Randall, Lincoln, 4:183.

Writes Gen. Grant: "Dr. [J. Rutherford] Worster wishes to visit you with a view of getting your permission to introduce into the Army 'Harmon's Sandal Sock.' Shall I give him a pass for that object?" Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, 29 June 1864, CW, 7:416.

Directs Gen. Steele to give new government of Arkansas same support and protection "that you would if the members had been admitted" to Congress. Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Steele, 29 June 1864, CW, 7:418.



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President accepts resignation of Sec. Chase. Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, 30 June 1864, CW, 7:419.

Nominates former Gov. Tod (Ohio) to be secretary of treasury; Tod declines for reasons of poor health. Abraham Lincoln to David Tod, 30 June 1864, CW, 7:420.

Interviews Finance Committee from Senate on proposition of retaining Chase in cabinet. Clarence E. Macartney, Lincoln and His Cabinet (New York: Scribner, 1931), 260-61; Hay, Letters and Diary.

Assents to use of grounds between White House and War Dept. by St. Matthew's Colored Sunday School for Fourth of July celebration. Endorsement, 30 June 1864, CW, 7:419.

Abandons colonization (Chiriqui) idea. [Plan to send 500 able-bodied Negroes as first colony on Isthmus of Chiriqui was opposed by Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes, 14 August 1862, CW, 5:370-75.] Hay, Letters and Diary.

Approves act providing internal revenue to support government and pay interest on public debt, and for other purposes. Stat. L., XIII, 223.

Authorizes asst. sec. of treasury Harrington to perform duties of secretary until further order. Authorization for George Harrington, 30 June 1864, CW, 7:418-19.


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         <p> Lincoln receives notice from Gen. Rosecrans of
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  valued friends." <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>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%3A834' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  for Parole of Charles H. Jonas</xref>, 2 June 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:373; Charles M. Segal, "New Light
  on Lincoln's Parole of Charles H. Jonas," <title>American Jewish Historical
  Society</title> Vol. 42, No. 4 (June 1953): 407; <title>Quincy Daily Whig
  Republican</title> (IL), 14 June 1864, 3:3; <xref from='ROOT' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Abraham
  Jonas</xref>, 4 February 1860, <title>CW</title>, 3:516.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> A. K.
  McClure, delegate-at-large from Pennsylvania to National Union Party
  Convention, calls on Lincoln. <bibl default='NO'>Alexander K. McClure, <title>Lincoln as a
  Politician</title> (Putnam, CT: privately printed, 1916), 18.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> attends opera, accompanied by
  Postmaster Gen. Blair and his daughter. <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-06-03'>Friday, June 3, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> President Lincoln replies to a group of New York "loyal
  citizens," who invited him to attend a June 4 "mass meeting" to honor General
  Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln writes, "It is impossible for me to attend...My
  previous high estimate of Gen. Grant has been maintained and heightened by what
  has occurred in the remarkable campaign he is now conducting...I trust that at
  your meeting, you will so shape your good words that they may turn to men and
  guns moving to his and their support." <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%3A836' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Frederick A. Conkling and Others</xref>, 3 June 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:374.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews at
  White House groups of delegates en route to National Union Convention in
  Baltimore. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Approves act providing national currency, secured by pledge of U.S.
  bonds, and providing for circulation and redemption thereof. <bibl default='NO'>Stat. L.,
  XIII, 99.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Irwin draws $3.53 draft on Springfield Marine Bank,
  for taxes on Council Bluffs, Iowa, land. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-06-04'>Saturday, June 4, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President continues to welcome all delegations to Baltimore 
Convention, knowing many will not be admitted: carpetbaggers, 
Negroes, sutlers claiming to represent states still in rebellion.
<bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>, 364; Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-06-05'>Sunday, June 5, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President will not commit himself on subject of candidate for Vice President.
<bibl default='NO'>Brooks, <title corresp='books_Brooks2'>Washington</title>, 151.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-06-06'>Monday, June 6, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Prof. Eben N. Horsford of Cambridge, Mass., and 
Lewis H. Morgan, anthropologist of Rochester, N.Y., regarding Pvt. 
James McCarthy, Co. K, 140th New York Regiment, under sentence for 
attempt to desert.
<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%3A844' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade</xref>, 6 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:378.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Grants audience to Stephen C. Massett, lecturer, and gives him card 
of introduction to Prof. Henry.
<bibl default='NO'>Massett to Lincoln, 6 June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults Sec. Chase about collector of customs at New York.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records&#8212;Armies</title> 600-3.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Listens while John Hay reads letter from John Nicolay describing 
pre-convention activities in Baltimore. Instructs Hay to reply. 
Wishes not to interfere in nomination of Vice President and has no 
suggestion in regard to platform or organization of convention.
<bibl default='NO'>Dennett, <title corresp='books_Dennett'>Hay Diaries and Letters</title>, 186; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A843' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning Leonard Swett and Joseph Holt</xref>, [6 June 1864], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:376-78.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults at length with Sen. Lane (Kans.) about national political 
situation and outlook.
<bibl default='NO'>William O. Stoddard, <title>Inside the White House in War Times</title> (New York: C. L. Webster, 1890), 240-41.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives May salary warrant for $2,022.34.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Henry W. Slocum at Vicksburg: "My friend, Thomas A. 
Marshall, . . . has some difficulty in managing a plantation in your 
Department. . . . I personally know, so far as such things can be 
known that Mr. Marshall is loyal, truthful, and honorable; and that I 
shall be glad for him to be obliged in any not unreasonable way."
<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%3A845' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Slocum</xref>, 6 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:378-79.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-06-07'>Tuesday, June
  7, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Frederick C.
  Meyer, chairman, Baltimore Convention, telegraphs Lincoln: "The Convention has
  just been called to order everything progressing." <bibl default='NO'>Meyer to Lincoln, 7
  June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President interviews Burton C. Cook,
  chairman of Illinois delegation to Baltimore Convention. <bibl default='NO'>Charles E.
  Hamlin, <title>Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin</title> (Cambridge: Riverside
  Press, 1899), 474.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Great Central Fair of U.S. Sanitary
  Commission opens in Philadelphia. President unable to accept invitation to
  dedicate event. <bibl default='NO'>Welsh to Lincoln, 23 May 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> 9 P.M. Marshal Lamon telegraphs Lincoln from Baltimore
  Convention: "Enthusiastic unanimity beyond even my expectations. Preliminaries
  not yet settled. Nomination to be made tomorrow." <bibl default='NO'>Lamon to Lincoln, 7
  June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln deposits May salary warrant
  for $2,022.34 in Riggs Bank. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> goes to opera. <bibl default='NO'>Fox, Diary,
  Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-06-08'>Wednesday, June 8, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> National Union Convention,
  meeting in Baltimore, nominates Lincoln for President. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 9
  June 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln busy in morning at War Dept., in constant
  telegraphic communication with Gen. Grant. Hurries to White House for quick
  lunch and returns to War Dept. About 4:30 P.M. sees dispatch announcing
  nomination of Mil. Gov. Johnson (Tenn.) for Vice President. Learns announcement
  of his own nomination received two hours ago. <bibl default='NO'>Lamon,
  <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 112-13; LL, No.
  217.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews James G. McAdam of New York on behalf of James
  A. McCrea, accused of procuring whiskey for soldiers at Beaufort, S.C. <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%3A856' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James G. McAdam</xref>, 10 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:385-86.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives visit
  and congratulations from Mayor Wallach (Washington). <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 9
  June 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Attends Grover's Theatre in evening alone. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Leonard Grover, "Lincoln's Interest in the Theater," <title>Century
  Magazine</title> 77 (April 1909):947.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President Lincoln
  forwards to Congress a communication from the Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton
  regarding the Enrollment Act, which instituted a military draft. Stanton
  suggested that Congress "repeal" the Act's "three hundred dollar clause," which
  allowed draftees to pay $300, in lieu of serving in the military. Stanton
  explained, "ample experience has now shown that the pecuniary exemption from
  service frustrates the object of the enrolment law, by furnishing money instead
  of men." Lincoln informs Congress that he "concur[s] with Stanton's
  "recommendation." <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%3A849' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 8 June 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:380; Edwin M. Stanton to Abraham
  Lincoln, 7 June 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  D. C.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-06-09'>Thursday, June 9, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President grants audience to Elisha H. Allen, envoy
  and minister from Hawaii, and exchanges short speeches with him. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A851' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Elisha H. Allen</xref>, 9 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:383; Seward to Lincoln, 6 June 1864, 7
  June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Confers with A. H. Markland, post
  office official with army, regarding postal service orders which
  <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> refuses to issue. <bibl default='NO'>Rice,
  227.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Replies to notification committee headed by former Gov.
  Dennison (Ohio): "I will neither conceal my gratification, nor restrain the
  expression of my gratitude, that the Union people, through their convention, in
  their continued effort to save, and advance the nation, have deemed me not
  unworthy to remain in my present position." <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%3A850' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Committee Notifying Lincoln of His Renomination</xref>, 9 June 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:380-83; Washington Star, 9 June
  1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> A day after the Republican Convention concluded in
  Baltimore, where the delegates re-nominated Lincoln for president, a committee
  delivers the news to President Lincoln. Lincoln also accepts the
  congratulations of the National Union League, and he remarks, "I have not
  permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country;
  but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who
  remarked to a companion once that 'it was not best to swap horses when crossing
  streams.'" <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%3A852' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply
  to Delegation from the National Union League</xref>, 9 June 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:383-84; <title>Evening
  Star</title> (Washington, D. C.), 9 June 1864, 2:4, <title>The New York
  Times</title> (NY), 10 June 1864, 1:6.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Receives congratulations
  of Philadelphia delegation to recent convention in Baltimore. <bibl default='NO'>Lamon,
  <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 160.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Responds to serenade by Ohio delegation and Capt. A. Menter's American Cornet
  Band. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 10 June 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Consults with John
  Hay just before bedtime about message from Gen. Rosecrans concerning conspiracy
  to overthrow government. <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='1864-06-10'>Friday, June 10, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President hands John Hay note for Gen. Rosecrans at St. Louis, before 
Hay is out of bed.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Issues order: "Major John Hay, Assistant Adjutant General, will 
repair at once to St. Louis Missouri, and having executed my verbal 
instructions will return to his station here."
<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%3A857' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order to John Hay</xref>, 10 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:386.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews O. H. Browning at night relative to appointing Mrs. 
Abraham Jonas postmaster of Quincy, Ill. [See June 2, 1864.]
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends Prof. Henry results of efforts to get pardon for Pvt. McCarthy.
<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%3A855' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Henry</xref>, 10 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:385.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Acknowledges receipt of Triennial Congregational Convention 
resolutions regarding day of national prayer, and atrocities 
committed on colored troops.
<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%3A859' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Julian M. Sturtevant</xref>, 10 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:388.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-06-11'>Saturday, June 11, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln addresses 130th Ohio Volunteers, 100-day troops recently 
arrived in Washington.
<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%3A861' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks to One Hundred Thirtieth Ohio Regiment</xref>, 11 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:388-89.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Atty. Gen. Bates, who protests confiscation Orders Nos. 
30 and 33 of Gen. Wallace at Baltimore.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves act providing for execution of treaties between U.S. and 
foreign nations regarding consular jurisdiction over crews of foreign 
vessels in U.S. waters and ports.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XIII, 121.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Turns over to secretary of treasury for reinvestment salary warrants 
for February 1864 and March 1864, with balance of $89 from purchase 
of notes on January 12, 1864, and all his government securities, 
total amount $54,515.07.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 128, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-06-12'>Sunday, June 12, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives request from Gen. George W. Dietezeler, Kansas 
Militia, for permission to call out 2,000 militia for 80 days to 
protect state against bushwhackers.
<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;WR RG 107, Off. Sec. War, EB 6, Entry 387.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-06-13'>Monday, June 13, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President notifies officials of Great Central Fair in Philadelphia 
that he will leave Washington for Philadelphia on Wednesday 
afternoon, June 16, 1864, and remain in Philadelphia till Thursday 
afternoon, June 17, 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%3A866' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Webster</xref>, 13 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:390.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs Atty. Gen. Bates to give Gen. Wallace's confiscation Orders 
Nos. 30 and 33 to 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
, who will issue order revoking them.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Thanks John Rogers, sculptor, for statuette groups, "Wounded Scout" 
and "Friend in the Swamp."
<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%3A862' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Rogers</xref>, 13 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:389.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate convention with United Colombian States to revive 
joint commission on 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%3A863' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 13 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:389.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends to Senate report from secretary of war on case of William 
Yocum, convicted of kidnaping.
<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%3A864' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 13 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:389-90.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Directs Adjt. Gen. Thomas to verify complaint that in vicinity of 
Henderson, Ky., "our military are seizing negroes and carrying them 
off without their own consent."
<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%3A865' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lorenzo Thomas</xref>, 13 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:390.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
John Nicolay starts on trip west because of poor health.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 14 June 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-06-14'>Tuesday, June
  14, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  communicates with Robert: "My dear Son Of course I will try to give the
  sittings for the 'Crayon.' Your Father." [Probably Col. David H. Strother,
  whose pseudonym was "Porte Crayon," writer and artist employed by "Harper's New
  Monthly Magazine."] <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%3A871' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Robert Todd Lincoln</xref>, 14 June 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:392.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In
  conversation with Noah Brooks, Lincoln says that he will be satisfied if war in
  Virginia is over within a year. <bibl default='NO'>Brooks, <title corresp='books_Brooks2'>Washington</title>, 149.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-06-15'>Wednesday, June 15, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President orders arrest of John S. Carlisle of West Virginia, engaged 
in treasonable correspondence with enemy of U.S.
<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%3A875' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order for Arrest of John S. Carlisle</xref>, 15 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:393.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Sec. Chase: "The Governor of Iowa and some of the M.C.'s have 
a little embarrassment about the removal of a Mr. [Robert J.] 
Atkinson, in your department, . . . Please help me a little. If you 
will write me a note that you do not wish Atkinson removed, that will 
end the matter."
<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%3A873' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase</xref>, 15 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:392.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gen. Grant: "Have just read your despatch of 1 P.M. 
yesterday. I begin to see it. You will succeed. God bless you all."
<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%3A874' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 15 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:393.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-06-16'>Thursday, June 16, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='39.9500, -75.1500' teiForm='name'>Philadelphia,
  PA</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President and party, accompanied by committee of
  escort, leave Washington on special train at 7 A.M. for Philadelphia, to attend
  Great Central Fair in aid of U.S. Sanitary Commission. <bibl default='NO'>Webster to
  Lincoln, 15 June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; LL, No. 1315.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Stop
  briefly at Baltimore and Wilmington, Del.; arrive at Philadelphia and
  Continental Hotel about 11:30 A.M. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 17 June 1864; LL, No.
  1315.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President leaves hotel after lunch and arrives Logan
  Square fairgrounds at 4:15 P.M. Responds to toast at banquet in main assembly
  hall of fair: "War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its
  magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible. . . . It has
  destroyed property, and ruined homes; . . . We accepted this war for an object,
  a worthy object, and the war will end when the object is attained. . . . I have
  never been in the habit of making predictions in regard to the war, but I am
  almost tempted to make one.&#8212;If I were to hazard it, it is this: That
  Grant is this evening, with General Meade and General Hancock, of Pennsylvania,
  and the brave officers and soldiers with him, in a position from whence he will
  never be dislodged until Richmond is taken." <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%3A878' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</xref>, 16 June
  1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:394-96; Washington Star, 17
  June 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gen. Wallace, Edward Everett, and others speak,
  following President's address. Several presents, including silver medal from
  ladies of fair, accepted by Lincoln with words of appreciation. President
  leaves fair for Union League Club in torchlight procession, without committee
  assigned to escort him. Speaks briefly at Union League Club in response to
  welcome by Daniel Dougherty, prominent Philadelphia lawyer and political
  orator. After reception by members of club, speaks again from front steps. 
  <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1315;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A879' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  Accepting Medal Presented by Ladies of the Fair</xref>, 16 June 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:396-97.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Near
  midnight returns to hotel, where crowd insists upon an appearance. Speaks from
  balcony: "I attended the Fair at Philadelphia to-day in the hope that possibly
  it might aid something in swelling the contributions for the benefit of the
  soldiers in thefield, . . . I thought I might do this without impropriety. It
  did not even occur to me that a kind demonstration like this would be made to
  me. . . . I have really appeared before you now . . . to show to you that I am
  not wanting in due consideration and respect for you, when you make this kind
  of demonstration in my honor." <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1315;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A882' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech
  at Hotel Continental, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</xref>, 16 June 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:398.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Unable to
  accept invitation to occupy reserved boxes at Arch Street Theatre in evening. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Drew to Lincoln, 15 June 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham
  Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Transmits
  to Senate further report and papers 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%3A877' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 16 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:394.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-06-17'>Friday, June 17, 1864.</date>
            <place key='39.9500, -75.1500' teiForm='name'>Philadelphia, PA</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President and party depart Philadelphia 8 A.M. in special train for Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1315.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
John Hay returns from St. Louis and reports to President on interview 
with Gen. Rosecrans.
<bibl default='NO'>Dennett, <title corresp='books_Dennett'>Hay Diaries and Letters</title>, 187.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln replies to request of Sen. Trumbull (Ill.) for information on 
reorganization of state government in Arkansas, that copies of 
documentation have been furnished Cong. Henry L. Dawes (Mass.).
<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%3A883' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull</xref>, 17 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:398-99.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-06-18'>Saturday, June 18, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Cong. Lucian Anderson (Ky.) and Judge Rufus K. 
Williams of Kentucky Court of Appeals relative to suspended 
assessments and appointment of Gen. Eleazer A. Paine.
<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%3A887' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 18 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:400.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Summons C. A. Walborn to Washington relative to article in New York 
"Tribune" charging official influence in political matters.
<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%3A888' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Cornelius A. Walborn</xref>, 18 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:400.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Recognizes C. F. Mebius as consul of Bavaria at San Francisco and 
Joseph Lang as consul of Duchy of Brunswick-L&#252;neburg at New 
Orleans.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 21 June 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Consults with O. H. Browning at night on D. L. Phillips and Commodore 
Wilkes cases and appointment of Ebenezer Moore of Illinois as 
secretary of Montana 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%3A830' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>List of Applicants for Montana Appointments</xref>, [c. June 1864], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:371-72; Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Sec. Welles: "My old friend C. B. Denio, is in some trouble, 
pecuniarily, . . . I feel confident he has not meant wrong, and I 
shall be glad for you to do the best for him you can."
<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%3A889' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 18 Jun