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<dateline>
<date value='1864-06-01'>Wednesday, June 1, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President congratulates José M. Medina on election to
presidency of Republic of Honduras.
<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%3A833' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to José M. Medina</xref>, 1 June 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:373.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Confers with Sec. Welles on appointment of midshipmen and with Gen.
Schenck (resigned) on selection of retired officers' board members.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Visits telegraph office, reads New York "Herald" report on Cleveland,
Ohio, convention, asks for Bible and reads aloud from it.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 194.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
[Irwin deposits in Springfield Marine Bank $645, principal and
interest on I. Lindsay note.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 166.</bibl>]
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1864-06-02'>Thursday, June 2, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> 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. <bibl default='NO'>Rosecrans to Lincoln, 2 June 1864, Robert Todd
Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> 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." <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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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—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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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—WR RG 107, Off. Sec. War, EB 6, Entry 387.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
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<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>
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<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.—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-Lüneburg 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 |

