<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-01'>Friday, July 1, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln forwards nomination of Sen. William P. Fessenden (Maine) as 
secretary of treasury to Senate. Confirmed instantly.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Fessenden calls on Lincoln to suggest name of Comptroller of Currency 
McCulloch to replace Sec. Chase. Lincoln informs Fessenden that his 
name has already been sent to Senate.
<bibl default='NO'>Francis Fessenden, <title>Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden</title>, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907), 1:315-18.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-02'>Saturday, July 2, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Cong. Julian (Ind.) on power of Congress to 
confiscate landed estates of Confederates.
<bibl default='NO'>George W. Julian, <title>Political Recollections 1840-1872</title> (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, 1884), 245.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Former Sen. Fessenden (Maine), newly nominated secretary of treasury, 
has long interview with President at White House.
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Tribune, 3 July 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President interviews Gen. Meigs regarding Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
<bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and family begin summer residence at Soldiers' Home.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 3 July 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 10 P.M. Fessenden calls in person to deliver letter declining 
cabinet post; "but the President was in bed asleep."
<bibl default='NO'>Francis Fessenden, <title>Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden</title>, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907), 1:320.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President approves act granting lands to aid in construction of 
railroad and telegraph line from Lake Superior to Puget's Sound on 
Pacific coast.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XIII, 365.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Robert arrive home.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 3 July 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Assoc. Justice Davis: "Please give me a summary of the 
evidence, with your impression, on the Coles county [Ill.] riot 
cases" [March 28, 1864, involving Copperheads and soldiers of 54th 
Illinois Regiment on furlough]. Makes identical request of Judge 
Samuel H. Treat.
<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%3A934' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel H. Treat</xref>, 2 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:422-23.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Transmits to Senate information regarding African slave trade.
<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%3A933' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 2 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:422.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-03'>Sunday, July 3, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In morning former Sen. Fessenden (Maine) calls again to deliver 
letter declining cabinet post, but President persuades him to accept 
it.
<bibl default='NO'>Francis Fessenden, <title>Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden</title>, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907), 1:320.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-07-04'>Monday, July
  4, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  records agreement reached with newly appointed Sec. of Treasury William P.
  Fessenden: "I will keep no person in office in his department, against his
  express will, so long as I choose to continue him; . . . In Cabinet my view is
  that in questions affecting the whole country there should be full and frequent
  consultations." <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%3A936' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum
  of Interview with William P. Fessenden</xref>, 4 July 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:423.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln works
  in President's Room at Capitol in morning, signing bills and conferring with
  members of Congress. <bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and
  Diary</title>; Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>,
  4:191.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In conference with Sen. Chandler (Mich.), Lincoln doubts
  legal right of Congress to act on "Wade-Davis Bill." Chandler angrily walks
  out. President pockets bill. <bibl default='NO'>John G. Nicolay and John Hay, <title>Abraham
  Lincoln: A History</title>, 10 vols. (New York: Century, 1890),
  9:120-21.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Congressional committee notifies President of
  adjournment unless he has further communications. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Senate
  Journal</title>, 752.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cong. Arnold (Ill.) complains to
  President that John L. Scripps, postmaster at Chicago and candidate for
  Congress against him, is influencing votes of postal employees. Lincoln writes
  Scripps: "My wish therefore is, that you will do just as you think fit with
  your own suffrage in the case, and not constrain any of your subordinates to
  other than he thinks fit with his. This is precisely the rule I inculcated and
  adhered to on my part, when a <uLine>certain</uLine> other nomination now
  recently made, was being canvassed for." <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%3A937' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John L. Scripps</xref>, 4 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:423-24.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-05'>Tuesday, July 5, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President suspends writ of habeas corpus and establishes martial law 
in Kentucky.
<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%3A939' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Suspending Writ of Habeas Corpus</xref>, 5 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:425-27.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Sec. Fessenden attends for first time. President more 
formal than usual.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives June salary warrant for $2,022.33.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-06'>Wednesday, July 6, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews J. R. Gilmore regarding another effort to negotiate peace.
<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%3A945' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, [6 July 1864], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:429; James R. Gilmore, <title>Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War</title> (Boston: Page, 1898), 242-47.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Gen. Hitchcock confers with Lincoln about defense of Washington 
against approaching forces of Gen. Jubal A. Early (CSA).
<bibl default='NO'>Ethan A. Hitchcock, <title>Fifty Years in Camp and Field: Diary of Major-General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, U.S.A.</title>, edited by W. A. Croffut (New York: Putnam, 1909), 463-64.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-07'>Thursday, July 7, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President, in obedience to concurrent resolution of Congress, 
proclaims first Thursday of Aug. next as day of national humiliation 
and prayer.
<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%3A953' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation of a Day of Prayer</xref>, 7 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:431-32; Washington Star, 8 July 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Inquires of 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: "Please tell me what is there of the 
Maryland matter?" reported as infamous designs to "gobble up" money 
intended for Negro volunteers.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A954' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 7 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:432-33.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-08'>Friday, July 8, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President, after failing to sign "Wade-Davis Bill," issues 
proclamation concerning reconstruction.
<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%3A955' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Concerning Reconstruction</xref>, 8 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:433-34.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening discusses Baltimore Convention with F. B. Carpenter and 
John Hay. Cong. Kelley (Pa.) comes in later.
<bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 162.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Reviews 35 court martial cases.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:546.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-07-09'>Saturday, July 9, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President Lincoln writes to New York 
  <name>Tribune</name> editor Horace Greeley in response to Greeley's letter
  indicating that the Confederate President is ready to negotiate a peace
  settlement. Lincoln responds, "If you can find, any person anywhere professing
  to have any proposition of Jefferson Davis in writing, for peace, embracing the
  restoration of the Union and abandonment of slavery, what ever else it
  embraces...he may come to me with you, and that if he really brings such
  proposition, he shall...have safe conduct, with the paper...to the point where
  you shall have met 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%3A957' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Horace Greeley</xref>, 9 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:435-36.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln deposits
  June salary warrant for $2,022.33 in Riggs Bank. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Telegraphs J. W. Garrett: "What have you heard about a battle at Monococy
  [Monocacy] to-day? We have nothing about it here except what you say." <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%3A956' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John W. Garrett</xref>, 9 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:434-35.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gen. Rosecrans
  telegraphed President on July 8, 1864: "A telegram from <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Secretary of War</person> says you direct the release of Dr.
  [James A.] Barrett [one of several purported leaders of Order of American
  Knights]. . . . I respectfully request a revision of the order." Lincoln
  replies: "<uLine>When</uLine> did the Sec. of War telegraph you to release Dr.
  Barrett? If it is an old thing, let it stand till you hear further." <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%3A959' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans</xref>, 9 July 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:436.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Reviews 31
  court martial cases. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  8:546.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-10'>Sunday, July 10, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 9:20 A.M. Lincoln telegraphs reply to Baltimore committee: "I have 
not a single soldier but whom is being disposed by the Military for 
the best protection of all. By latest account the enemy is moving on 
Washington. They can not fly to either place. Let us be vigilant but 
keep cool. I hope neither Baltimore or Washington will be sacked."
<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%3A961' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Swann and Others</xref>, 10 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:437-38.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Accompanied by Asst. Adjt. Gen. James A. Hardie and mounted escort, 
visits forts around Washington.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 11 July 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 10 P.M. President and family leave Soldiers' Home and return to 
White House, on recommendation of 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 who believes them in 
danger.
<bibl default='NO'>Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 4:199.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 2 P.M. Lincoln telegraphs Gen. Grant on present emergency: "Gen. 
Halleck says we have absolutely no force here fit to go to the field. 
He thinks . . . we can defend Washington, and scarcely Baltimore. . . 
. there are about eight thousand not very reliable, under [Gen. 
Albion P.] Howe at Harper's Ferry, with Hunter approaching that point 
. . . Wallace with some odds and ends, . . . can attempt no more than 
to defend Baltimore. . . . Now what I think is that you should 
provide to retain your hold where you are certainly, and bring the 
rest with you personally, and make a vigorous effort to destroy the 
enemie's [<uLine>sic</uLine>] force in this vicinity."
<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%3A960' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 10 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:437.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-11'>Monday, July 11, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 8 A.M. Lincoln acknowledges Gen. Grant's telegram of last night as 
very satisfactory and reports: "Some firing between Rockville and 
here now"
<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%3A962' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 11 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:438.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
About 9 A.M. rides out to front in direction of Tennallytown.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 11 July 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Accompanied by <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, visits Fort Stevens, DC.
<bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 301.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Present at Fort Stevens during attack. Soldier roughly orders him off parapet.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Witnesses skirmish with Gen. Early's troops in front of Fort Stevens.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 252.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At wharf to welcome reinforcements sent up Potomac by Gen. Grant.
<bibl default='NO'>Harper, <title corresp='books_Harper'>Press</title>, 269-70.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Orders militia and volunteers of Washington into service of U.S. for 
period of 60 days.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 12 July 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <quote>
            <p>
[Confederate threat to Washington reaches climax in battle at Fort 
Stevens on the outskirts of the city.]
</p>
         </quote>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-07-12'>Tuesday, July
  12, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  telegraphs Gen. Grant: "Vague rumors have been reaching us for two or three
  days that Longstreet's corps is also on its way this vicinity. Look out for
  it's absence from your front." <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%3A963' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 12 July 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:438.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet
  meets. Discussion centers around Gen. Early's raid on Washington. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Each day of
  skirmishing President rides to suburbs and watches "the soldiers repulse the
  invaders." <bibl default='NO'>Francis F. Browne, <title>The Everyday Life of Abraham
  Lincoln</title> (New York: Thompson, 1886), 661-62.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President,
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, and several members of Congress
  visit Fort Stevens, DC, at 4 P.M. and watch operations from parapet. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 13 July 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Asst. Sec. Seward and
  father, Sec. Seward, drive out to Fort Stevens with President. <bibl default='NO'>Frederick
  W. Seward, <title>Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat,
  1830-1915. By Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary of State during the
  Administrations of Lincoln, Johnson, and Hayes</title> (New York: Putnam,
  1916), 248.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President tours fortifications again. Under fire
  again at Fort Stevens. Man shot at his side. <bibl default='NO'>Hay,
  <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Gen.
  Wright tells Lincoln to get out of danger. Lincoln does not move. Young
  officer, Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr., shouts: "Get down, you fool." President
  moves back. <bibl default='NO'>Monaghan, <title corresp='books_Monaghan'>Diplomat</title>,
  378.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At night President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person> drive along line of city defenses and are greeted by soldiers.
  <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 13 July 1864.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-13'>Wednesday, July 13, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Atty. Gen. Bates calls on President and presents his views on 
Baltimore Convention.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-14'>Thursday, July 14, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President resumes schedule for living at Soldiers' Home.
<bibl default='NO'>Hay, <title corresp='books_Hay'>Letters and Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Prepares memorandum relative to cabinet: "I must myself be the judge, 
how long to retain in, and when to remove any of you from, his 
position. It would greatly pain me to discover any of you endeavoring 
to procure anothers removal, or, in any way to prejudice him before 
the public. Such endeavor would be a wrong to me; and much worse, a wrong 
to the country. My wish is that on this subject, no remark be made, 
nor question asked, by any of you, here or elsewhere, now or 
hereafter." [Whether or not Lincoln read memorandum to cabinet on 
this day, or any day, is in doubt.]
<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%3A965' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Read to Cabinet</xref>, [14? July] 186[4], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:439.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Replies, through 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
, to letter of Gen. Halleck who proposes 
that names of officers described by Postmaster Gen. Blair as 
poltroons be stricken from rolls of Army, or Blair be dismissed from 
cabinet. "If they [remarks of Blair] were made I do 
<uLine>not</uLine> approve them; and yet, under the circumstances, I 
would not dismiss a member of the Cabinet therefor. . . . Besides 
this, <uLine>truth</uLine> is generally the best vindication against 
slander. I propose continuing to be myself the judge as to when a 
member of the Cabinet shall be dismissed."
<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%3A966' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 14 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:439-40.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Presents Gen. John B. S. Todd with inscribed copy of Herman Haupt, 
Military Bridges, 1864.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:547.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-15'>Friday, July 15, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gov. Peirpoint (Va.) and party make an appointment for 10:30 A.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Peirpoint to Lincoln, 14 July 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Seward arranges audience for 11 A.M. with F. L. Barreda.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 13 July 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President confers with Atty. Gen. Bates, who expresses contempt for 
Gen. Halleck.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Discussion mainly on Gen. Early's raid.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
O. H. Browning meets President between White House and War Dept. and 
discovers Lincoln displeased that Confederates molesting Washington 
escaped.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"Major John Hay, my Private Secretary, goes to New York upon public 
business of importance." Hay delivers President's letter to Horace 
Greeley relative to peace negotiations.
<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%3A968' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley</xref>, 15 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:440; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A969' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley</xref>, 15 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:441-42; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A970' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order for John Hay</xref>, 15 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:442.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President acknowledges with thanks receipt of suit made to his 
measurements by Rockhill &amp; Wilson and donated to Great Central 
Fair in Baltimore.
<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%3A971' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to L. J. Leberman</xref>, 15 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:442.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-07-16'>Saturday, July 16, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> O. H. Browning and Lincoln discuss for hour letter
  of Gen. Halleck to <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> asking that
  Postmaster Gen. Blair be dismissed from cabinet. <bibl default='NO'>Browning,
  <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President
  authorizes John Hay in New York to write safe-conduct order for Confederate
  representatives in Canada to travel to 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%3A973' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John Hay</xref>, 16 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:443.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Attends Marine band
  concert at White House alone. <bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 168.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-17'>Sunday, July 17, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President asks Gov. Curtin (Pa.) to come to Washington relative to 2d 
Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery.
<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%3A976' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Andrew G. Curtin</xref>, 17 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:444.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Assures Gen. Hunter that Gen. Grant wishes him to remain in command 
and no one is scapegoat.
<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%3A978' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to David Hunter</xref>, 17 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:445.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Grant hope that desperate effort to get position "shall 
not be desparate [sic] in the sense of great loss of life."
<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%3A977' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 17 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:444-45.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-18'>Monday, July 18, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President issues call for 500,000 Volunteers.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A986' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation Calling for 500,000 Volunteers</xref>, 18 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:448-49.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
J. R. Gilmore reports to Lincoln on interview with President Davis: 
South fighting for independence and not slavery; terms of peace must 
be based on recognition of independence.
<bibl default='NO'>James R. Gilmore, <title>Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War</title> (Boston: Page, 1898), 288-89.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
E. J. Moore, sixth Pennsylvania district, discusses appointments with 
President.
<bibl default='NO'>More to Cameron, 25 July 1864, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President converts loan certificates for $26,181.40 into U.S. stocks.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 17 October 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gen. Sherman who opposes sending recruiting officers into 
Confederate States: "We here, will do what we consistently can to 
save you from difficulties arising out of it. May I ask therefore 
that you will give your hearty cooperation?"
<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%3A987' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William T. Sherman</xref>, 18 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:449-50.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President states position of his government regarding peace, in 
document to be delivered by Horace Greeley and John Hay to persons in 
Canada purporting to represent Confederate States: "Any proposition 
which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole 
Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an 
authority that can control the armies now at war against the United 
States will be received and considered by the Executive government of 
the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on other 
substantial and collateral points; and the bearer, or bearers thereof 
shall have safe-conduct both ways."
<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%3A990' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Whom It May Concern</xref>, 18 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:451.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-19'>Tuesday, July 19, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President names three members of board of directors of Union Pacific 
Railroad and Telegraph Company.
<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%3A991' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Appointment of Government Directors for Union Pacific Railroad</xref>, 19 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:451-52.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Agenda includes riot in Coles County, Ill., of March 
28, 1864, between soldiers on leave and "Copperheads," and 
controversy between Gov. Peirpoint (Va.) and Gen. Butler.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; Charles H. Coleman, <title>Abraham Lincoln and Coles County, Illinois</title> (New Brunswick, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1955), 226.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes statement for signatures of three citizens of 
Philadelphia: "We believe there are in the Philadelphia Post-Office 
between two hundred and fifty and three hundred employees under the 
Post-Master, and that no one of them openly supports the renomination 
of Judge Kelly [Kelley] for Congress, and that several of them say 
and intimate privately that it is because they are restrained by the 
Post-Master."
<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%3A993' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Statement of Philadelphia Citizens</xref>, 19 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:452.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1864-07-20'>Wednesday, July 20, 1864.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President recognizes Francis A. Hoffmann as consul
  for Kingdom of Hanover at Chicago. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 29 July 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Replies to Gen. Grant: "Yours of yesterday about a call for 300,000 is
  received. I suppose you had not seen the call for 500,000 made the day before,
  and which I suppose covers the case. Always glad to have your suggestions." 
  <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%3A994' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 20 July 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:452-53.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Answers
  Jacob T. Wright, chairman, Republican State Union Central Committee of Indiana,
  who asks that Gen. Butler be given <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
  's place: "All a mistake. <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Mr. Stanton</person> has not
  resigned." <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%3A996' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Jacob T. Wright</xref>, 20 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:454.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-21'>Thursday, July 21, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln recommends former landlady: "The bearer of this is a most 
estimable widow lady, at whose house I boarded many years ago when a 
member of Congress. She now is very needy; &amp; any employment 
suitable to a lady could not be bestowed on a more worthy person." 
[Mrs. Ann G. Sprigg received appointment in Treasury Dept.]
<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%3A997' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William P. Fessenden</xref>, 21 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:454.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-22'>Friday, July 22, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President reads to cabinet correspondence between himself and Horace 
Greeley concerning Niagara Falls peace negotiations.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and cabinet view F. B. Carpenter's unfinished painting of 
Lincoln reading Emancipation Proclamation to cabinet.
<bibl default='NO'>Carpenter, <title corresp='books_Carpenter'>Six Months</title>, 350.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-23'>Saturday, July 23, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
John W. North, associate justice of district court, Nevada Territory, 
asks President for a hearing before taking action on charges against 
him.
<bibl default='NO'>North to Lincoln, 23 July 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln telegraphs Gen. Hunter at Harper's Ferry, W. Va.: "Are you 
able to take care of the enemy when he turns back upon you, as he 
probably will on finding that Wright has left?"
<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%3A1004' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to David Hunter</xref>, 23 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:456.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-24'>Sunday, July 24, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President writes Sec. Usher: "I know nothing personally of Mr. 
Rohrer, but shall be very glad if the Sec. of Interior can oblige the 
gentlemen who write the within letter."
<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%3A1005' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John P. Usher</xref>, 24 July 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:456.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-07-25'>Monday, July 25, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with Gen. Meigs relative to destroying fords across 
Potomac from Washington to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., by means of dams.
<bibl default='NO'>Diary, Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
T. Shaffer interviews President regarding difficulty of getting 
cotton out of Military Division of West Mississippi.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text