<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-01'>Monday, August 1, 1864.</date>
            <place>En route</place> and <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Presidential party, including <person key='LI30825'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, Asst. Sec. Fox, and 
several others, arrives at Navy Yard in morning.
<bibl>Washington Star, 1 August 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President asks Sen. Morgan (N.Y.) to come to Washington at once.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1043'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin D. Morgan</xref>, 1 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:474.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Welles confers with Lincoln about trial of Benjamin G. and 
Franklin W. Smith ("Smith Brothers") of Boston, charged with attempt 
to defraud government.
<bibl>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>, 2 August 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-02'>Tuesday, August 2, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln considers request of wife of Surg. Gen. William A. Hammond 
for interview and prefers not to see her.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1044'>Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. William A. Hammond</xref>, [2 August 1864], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:474-75.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Military affairs discussed.
<bibl>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President confers with Sen. Morgan (N.Y.) and produces correspondence 
with former Sec. Chase at time Chase resigned.
<bibl>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>, 5 August 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-03'>Wednesday, August 3, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends congratulations to Charles XV, King of Sweden and 
Norway, on marriage of Prince Nicolas Auguste.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1045'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles XV</xref>, 3 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:475.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Offers condolences to Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, on death 
of Archduchess Hildegarde.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1046'>Abraham Lincoln to Francis Joseph I</xref>, 3 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:475-76.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Congratulates King Leopold of Belgians on birth of granddaughter.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1048'>Abraham Lincoln to Leopold</xref>, 3 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:477.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Congratulates William I, King of Prussia, on daughter born to Princess Antonie.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1051'>Abraham Lincoln to William I</xref>, 3 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:478-79.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Michael Burns, president of North Western Railroad, and 
refers him to 
<person key='ST16686'>Sec. Stanton</person>
.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1050'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 3 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:478.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Gen. Grant: "'Putting our army <uLine>South</uLine> 
of the enemy' or of following [']him to the <uLine>death</uLine>' . . 
. will neither be done nor attempted unless you watch it every day, 
and hour, and force it."
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1047'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 3 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:476.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Instructs 
<person key='ST16686'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to suspend order of Gen. Hunter, who directed 
arrest and shipment south of Union lines of secessionist residents of 
Frederick, Md.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1049'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 3 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:477-78.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-04'>Thursday, August 4, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives dispatch at noon that Gen. Grant leaves City 
Point, Va., in two hours for Washington.
<bibl>Grant to Lincoln, 4 August 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2> <dateline> <date value='1864-08-05'>Friday, August
  5, 1864.</date> <place>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline> <p> President
  receives note from <person key='ST16686'>Sec. Stanton</person> that Gen. Grant
  is at War Dept. Replies: "I will come over in a few minutes." <bibl>
  <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1059'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, [5 August 1864],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:482.</bibl> </p> <p> Cabinet
  meets. Only four members present. <bibl>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> Atty. Gen. Bates calls
  on President to deliver letter of Col. James O. Broadhead, provost marshal
  general of Missouri, on Missouri affairs. <bibl>Bates,
  <title corresp='books_Bates3'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln interviews
  Gen. Sheridan, who has been called to Washington and ordered to join Grant at
  Monocacy Junction. <bibl>Philip H. Sheridan, <title>Personal Memoirs of P. H.
  Sheridan</title>, 2 vols. (New York: C. L. Webster, 1888), 1:463-64.</bibl>
  </p> <p> In evening Sec. Seward reads Davis Protest [Wade-Davis Manifesto] to
  Lincoln, who wants to know if protestors intend openly to oppose his election. 
  <bibl>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>,
  5:8.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln receives July salary warrant for $1,981.67,
  reduced $101.66 by income tax enacted June 30, 1864. <bibl>Pratt,
  <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 183.</bibl> </p>
  </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-06'>Saturday, August 6, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Sec. Welles regarding promotion of Col. Griffin 
A. Stedman, who is reported dying from wounds received in action 
before Petersburg, Va., and endorses recommendation of Gen. Edward O. 
C. Ord that Col. Stedman be promoted to brigadier general. "I shall 
be glad to have this done."
<bibl>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>; <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1064'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 6 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:484.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests interview and receives notice that Col. Samuel M. Bowman, 
chief mustering officer for Negro troops in Maryland, will call on 
August 8, 1864.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1060'>Abraham Lincoln to Samuel M. Bowman</xref>, 6 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:482.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves publication of correspondence between himself and Horace 
Greeley relative to Niagara Falls peace effort.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1061'>Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley</xref>, 6 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:482-83.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-07'>Sunday, August 7, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President, Gens. Grant and Halleck, and 
<person key='ST16686'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 meet in War 
Dept. Sec. Welles inquires about Col. Stedman and learns of his death.
<bibl>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>, 8 August 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-08'>Monday, August 8, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sec. Seward arranges 12 M. meeting for President with Count Piper.
<bibl>Seward to Lincoln, 5 August 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Col. Bowman will arrive from Baltimore, accompanied by Lev. E. 
Straughn, commissioner to examine claims of owners of slaves enlisted 
in army.
<bibl>Bowman to Lincoln, 6 August 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President explains to Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge at Lexington, Ky., 
that paper was given Emily Todd Helm to protect her against mere fact 
of her being Gen. Helm's widow, and not against consequences of 
disloyalty. "If the paper given her by me can be construed to give 
her protection for such words or acts, it is hereby revoked 
<uLine>pro tanto</uLine>. Deal with her for current conduct, just as 
you would with <uLine>any other</uLine>."
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1066'>Abraham Lincoln to Stephen G. Burbridge</xref>, 8 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:484-85.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Horace Greeley: "I telegraphed you Saturday. Did you receive 
the despatch? Please answer."
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1067'>Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley</xref>, 8 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:485.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-09'>Tuesday, August 9, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Welles reports that President is willing to have 
Niagara peace proceedings published.
<bibl>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President orders that Gen. A. J. Hamilton may transport cotton from 
ports of Galveston or Sabine Pass, Tex., to treasury agents at New 
Orleans unmolested.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1072'>Abraham Lincoln to Edward R. S. Canby</xref>, 9 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:488-89.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends to Horace Greeley printed copy of their correspondence 
concerning Niagara Falls imbroglio.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1074'>Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley</xref>, 9 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:489-90.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Banks regarding new constitution adopted by convention of 
Louisiana: "I am anxious that it shall be ratified by the people."
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1070'>Abraham Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks</xref>, 9 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:486-87.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Advises Gen. Butler to clean up Norfolk on basis of military 
necessity, "openly discarding all reliance for what you do, on any 
election."
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1071'>Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. Butler</xref>, 9 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:487-88.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests Sec. Fessenden to place to credit of Dept. of State sum of 
$25,000, as appropriated in act to encourage immigration.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1073'>Abraham Lincoln to William P. Fessenden</xref>, 9 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:489.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-10'>Wednesday, August 10, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln discusses plight of Negroes with Col. John Eaton, Jr., 
superintendent of freedmen for Dept. of the Tennessee.
<bibl>John Eaton, <title>Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the Civil War with Special Reference to the Work for the Contrabands and Freedmen of the Mississippi Valley</title> (New York: Longmans, Green, 1907), 168.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-08-11'>Thursday, August 11, 1864.</date> <place>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline> <p> Lincoln calls Gen. Schurz to White House. <bibl>
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:550.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2 type='Revised'> 
  <dateline> <date value='1864-08-12'>Friday, August 12, 1864.</date> 
  <place>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline> <p> At 8:30 a.m., poet Walt Whitman
  spots President Lincoln, who is traveling between the nearby Soldiers' Home,
  where Lincoln frequently stays during the summer months, and the White House.
  Whitman records, "Mr. Lincoln...generally rides a good-sized, easy-going gray
  horse, is dress'd in plain black, somewhat rusty and dusty; [and] wears a black
  stiff hat...I see very plainly [his] dark brown face, with the deep cut lines,
  the eyes, &amp;c., always to me with a latent sadness in the expression. We
  have got so that we always exchange bows, and very cordial ones." <bibl>Allen
  Thorndike Rice, ed., <title>Reminiscenes of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished
  Men of His Time</title> (New York: Haskell House Publishers, Ltd., 1971),
  469-70.</bibl> </p> <p> Cabinet meets. Secs. <person key='ST16686'>Stanton</person> and Fessenden absent. <bibl>Welles,
  <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> </p> <p> Thurlow Weed
  confers with Lincoln and warns him that his reelection is impossible. 
  <bibl>Henry L. Stoddard, <title>Horace Greeley: Printer, Editor,
  Crusader</title> (New York: Putnam, 1946), 227; Weed to Seward, 22 August 1864,
  Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> </p> <p> President issues pass to Col. Eaton to visit
  Gen. Grant and instructs him to ascertain Grant's reaction to becoming
  presidential candidate. <bibl>
  <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1081'>Pass
  for John Eaton</xref>, 12 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:492.</bibl> </p> <p> John Hay leaves on
  trip home and expects to be gone five or six weeks. <bibl>Nicolay to Bates, 14
  August 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> </p> <p> President orders Maj. John Hay to proceed to Keokuk, Iowa,
  and having executed his verbal instructions to return. <bibl>DNA&#x2014;WR RG
  94, Adjt. Gen. Off., Letters Received, XL, Supp. III.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-13'>Saturday, August 13, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Gen. Robert Anderson is dinner guest.
<bibl>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:550.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-14'>Sunday, August 14, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with 
<person key='ST16686'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 on destruction of private 
property and suggests to Gen. Grant that he make an agreement with 
Gen. R. E. Lee on subject.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1085'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 14 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:493.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-15'>Monday, August 15, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President congratulates Atanasio Cruz Aguirre on elevation to 
presidency of Oriental Republic of Uruguay.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1086'>Abraham Lincoln to Atanasio Cruz Aguirre</xref>, 15 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:493-94.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends printed copy of correspondence with Horace Greeley regarding 
Niagara Falls peace effort to Henry J. Raymond for publication in New 
York "Times" when proper time comes.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1087'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry J. Raymond</xref>, 15 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:494-95.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs Gen. Sherman near Atlanta: "If the government should 
purchase, on its own account, cotton Northward of you and on the line 
of your communications, would it be an inconvenience to you, or 
detriment to the Military service, for it to come to the North on the 
Railroad?"
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1090'>Abraham Lincoln to William T. Sherman</xref>, 15 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:495-96.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Requests Sec. Usher to bring up case of Patrice DeJanon, professor of 
Spanish dismissed from West Point.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1092'>Abraham Lincoln to John P. Usher</xref>, 15 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:496.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-16'>Tuesday, August 16, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Sec. Seward and Atty. Gen. Bates dispute over 
procedures for captured cotton.
<bibl>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln interviews First Asst. Postmaster Gen. Alexander W. Randall, 
former governor of Wisconsin, who delivers letter from Charles D. 
Robinson, editor, Green Bay, Wis., "Advocate," Democratic paper.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1100'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles D. Robinson</xref>, 17 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:499-502.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Forwards to Ward Hunt, Utica, N.Y., attorney, letter of Sec. Seward 
relative to former Cong. Roscoe Conkling (N.Y.) running for Congress.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1097'>Abraham Lincoln to Ward Hunt</xref>, 16 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:498.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-17'>Wednesday, August 17, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln telegraphs Gen. Grant at City Point, Va.: "Hold on with a 
bull-dog gripe, and chew &amp; choke, as much as possible."
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1099'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 17 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:499.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Reviews 15 courtmartial cases.
<bibl>
               <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:551.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-08-18'>Thursday, August 18, 1864.</date> <place>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline> <p> President speaks to 164th Ohio Regiment, composed
  of militia whose 100-day term of service has expired. <bibl>
  <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1106'>Speech
  to the One Hundred Sixty-Fourth Ohio Regiment</xref>, 18 August 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:504-5; Washington Star, 18 August
  1864.</bibl> </p> <p> Interviews Leonard Swett, who thinks that Lincoln cannot
  be reelected and asks if he will withdraw. <bibl>Butler,
  <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 5:68.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Declares by proclamation, "that the port of Newport in the state of Vermont is
  and shall be entitled to all the privileges in regard to the exportation of
  merchandise in bond to the British North American Provinces, adjoining the
  United States." <bibl>
  <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1105'>Proclamation
  Concerning Commercial Regulations</xref>, 18 August 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:503-4.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-19'>Friday, August 19, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President in long conversation with First Asst. Postmaster Gen. 
Randall and Judge Joseph T. Mills about coming election.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1109'>Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills</xref>, 19 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:506-8.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Frederick Douglass visits White House.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1109'>Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills</xref>, 19 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:506-8.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. No special subject.
<bibl>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-20'>Saturday, August 20, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews Col. Joseph N. G. Whistler, who wants his son to 
go to West Point.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1112'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 20 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:509.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives 151st Ohio Regiment, en route home after completing 100 days 
of service.
<bibl>Washington Chronicle, 21 August 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-21'>Sunday, August 21, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President establishes ordnance board, with Gen. Gillmore as 
president, to test H. Ames' wrought-iron rifled cannon.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1114'>Order for Testing Wrought Iron Cannon</xref>, 21 [20?] August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:510.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-22'>Monday, August 22, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with 
<person key='ST16686'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 regarding release of Joseph 
Howard, Jr., who perpetrated New York newspaper hoax involving 
purported proclamation of President Lincoln.
<bibl>Harper, <title corresp='books_Harper'>Press</title>, 302.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Addresses 166th Ohio Regiment at White House, on its way home after 
completing term of service: "It is not merely for to-day, but for all 
time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children 
this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives. 
. . . I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am a 
living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as 
my father's child has. It is in order that each of you may have 
through this free government which we have enjoyed, an open field and 
a fair chance for your industry, enterprise and intelligence; . . . 
The nation is worth fighting for, to secure such an inestimable 
jewel."
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1119'>Speech to One Hundred Sixty-sixth Ohio Regiment</xref>, 22 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:512; Washington Star, 23 August 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-08-23'>Tuesday, August 23, 1864.</date> <place>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline> <p> At 10 A.M. President thanks 147th Ohio Regiment,
  commanded by Col. Benjamin F. Rosson, for its services. <bibl>Washington Star,
  24 August 1864.</bibl> </p> <p> Authorizes <person key='ST16686'>Sec.
  Stanton</person> to release J. Howard, Jr., from Fort Lafayette, N.Y. 
  <bibl>Harper, <title corresp='books_Harper'>Press</title>, 302.</bibl> </p> <p>
  Recognizes D. T. Arnaldo Marques as consul of Peru at San Francisco. 
  <bibl>Washington Star, 26 August 1864.</bibl> </p> <p> Confers with Cong.
  Fenton (N.Y.) about campaign for governor and Fenton's chances of winning
  against Gov. Seymour (N.Y.). <bibl>Rice, 68-70.</bibl> </p> <p> Cabinet meets.
  President asks members to sign, without reading, back of following memorandum:
  "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this
  Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate
  with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the
  inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can
  not possibly save it afterwards." <bibl>
  <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1124'>Memorandum
  Concerning His Probable Failure of Re-election</xref>, 23 August 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:514-15; Randall,
  <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 4:215.</bibl> </p> <p> Lincoln
  signs order for sale of land in Winnebago Indian reservation. <bibl>
  <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1125'>Order
  for Sale of Land in Winnebago Indian Reservation</xref>, 23 August 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:515-16.</bibl> </p> </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-24'>Wednesday, August 24, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President interviews John J. Jarmey, of Ohio, concerning political 
matters in state.
<bibl>James to Cameron, 27 August 1864, Simon Cameron Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In evening at Soldiers' Home, Lincoln and group of officials witness 
demonstration of Morse signalling from tower of Soldiers' Home to 
roof of Smithsonian Institution.
<bibl>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 265.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President acknowledges suggestion of Henry J. Raymond, chairman, 
National Executive Committee of Union Party, that commissioner be 
appointed to make proffers of peace to President Davis by asking 
Raymond to "proceed forthwith and obtain, if possible, a conference 
for peace with Hon. Jefferson Davis, or any person by him authorized 
for that purpose."
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1129'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry J. Raymond</xref>, 24 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:517-18.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-25'>Thursday, August 25, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 11 A.M. Sec. Welles calls at White House and finds President in 
conference with Secs. Seward, 
<person key='ST16686'>Stanton</person>
, and Fessenden, and Henry J. 
Raymond on subject of peace mission to President Davis, which they 
decide against.
<bibl>John G. Nicolay and John Hay, <title>Abraham Lincoln: A History</title>, 10 vols. (New York: Century, 1890), 9:221.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Seward arranges White House meeting for Lord Lyons at 12 M.
<bibl>Seward to Lincoln, 24 August 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-26'>Friday, August 26, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-27'>Saturday, August 27, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President sends order to 
<person key='ST16686'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: "If Gen. Sigel has asked for 
an Inquiry, let him have it, if there is not some insurmountable, or 
at least, very serious obstacle. He is fairly entitled to this 
consideration."
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1137'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 27 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:521.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-28'>Sunday, August 28, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Near midnight Charles J. M. Gwinn, Baltimore lawyer for convicted 
spies, visits Lincoln at Soldiers' Home to ask for reprieve.
<bibl>Gwinn to Lincoln, 29 August 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President telegraphs Gen. Wallace in Baltimore that sentences of four 
men, William H. Rodgers, John R. H. Emberet, Branton Lyons, and 
Samuel B. Hearn, convicted as spies, have been commuted.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1140'>Abraham Lincoln to Lewis Wallace</xref>, 28 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:522.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President asks Sec. Welles to "find some way to relieve me from the 
embarrassment of this case" against Smith brothers of Boston under 
arrest for fraudulent deliveries to Navy Dept.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1141'>Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 28 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:522-23.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2> <dateline> 
  <date value='1864-08-29'>Monday, August 29, 1864.</date> <place>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline> <p> President interviews Col. Worthington, who asks
  permission to visit Gen. Grant. <bibl>
  <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1143'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 29 August 1864,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:523-24.</bibl> </p> <p> Sec.
  Welles confers with President about petition from Boston relative to trial of
  Smith brothers. For political reasons they decide to transfer trial to Boston
  before civil tribunal. <bibl>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>;
  <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1141'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 28 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:522-23.</bibl> </p> <p> President
  interviews Hon. Paul C. Brinck, of New Jersey, who thinks troop quotas are too
  heavy on his township. </p> <bibl>
  <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1142'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James B. Fry</xref>, 29 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:523.</bibl> <p> [John Nicolay arrives in
  New York at noon on political mission for President involving changes in
  customhouse officials. <bibl>Nicolay to Lincoln, 29 August 1864, John G.
  Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>] </p> </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-30'>Tuesday, August 30, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Cabinet meets. Capture of Fort Morgan, Ala., confirmed by news from 
Gen. Sherman.
<bibl>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[John Nicolay in New York, sends letter to President by Robert 
Lincoln. Nicolay will start home tomorrow if he "gets matters 
arranged satisfactorily."
<bibl>Nicolay to Lincoln, 30 August 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1864-08-31'>Wednesday, August 31, 1864.</date>
            <place>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President telegraphs <person key='LI30825'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> at Manchester, Vt.: "All reasonably 
well. Bob not here yet. How is dear Tad?"
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1151'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 31 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:526.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Addresses 148th Ohio Regiment, on its way home after completed period 
of service.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1155'>Speech to One Hundred Forty-eighth Ohio Regiment</xref>, 31 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:528-29; Washington Star, 1 September 1864.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[John Nicolay in New York, will return tomorrow.
<bibl>Nicolay to Lincoln, 31 August 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>]
</p>
         <p>
President reviews case of Louis A. Welton, who came through Union 
lines with contract to furnish supplies to South, was arrested and 
sentenced to imprisonment, and concludes review by saying: "Now, if 
Senator Morgan, and Mr. Weed, and Mr. Raymond, will not argue with me 
that I <uLine>ought</uLine> to discharge this man, but will, in 
writing on this sheet, simply request me to do it, I will do it 
solely in deference to their wishes."
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1152'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin D. Morgan, Thurlow Weed, and Henry J. Raymond</xref>, 31 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:526-27.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Issues order that persons bringing out cotton in conformity with 
treasury regulations must not be hindered by other government 
departments.
<bibl>
               <xref url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A1153'>Order Concerning Transportation of Cotton</xref>, 31 August 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:527.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>