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August 12, 1864

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Friday, August 12, 1864.
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Walt Whitman, poet and hospital attendant, records: "I see the President almost every day, as I happen to live where he passes to or from his lodgings out of town. . . . I saw him this morning about 8:30 coming in to business, riding on Vermont Avenue, near L Street. He always has a company of twenty-five or thirty cavalry, with sabres drawn and held upright over their shoulders." Whitman's Notebook, 1864, in Rice, 469-70.

Cabinet meets. Secs. Stanton and Fessenden absent. Welles, Diary.

Thurlow Weed confers with Lincoln and warns him that his reelection is impossible. Henry L. Stoddard, Horace Greeley: Printer, Editor, Crusader (New York: Putnam, 1946), 227; Weed to Seward, 22 August 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

President issues pass to Col. Eaton to visit Gen. Grant and instructs him to ascertain Grant's reaction to becoming presidential candidate. Pass for John Eaton, 12 August 1864, CW, 7:492.

John Hay leaves on trip home and expects to be gone five or six weeks. Nicolay to Bates, 14 August 1864, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

President orders Maj. John Hay to proceed to Keokuk, Iowa, and having executed his verbal instructions to return. DNA—WR RG 94, Adjt. Gen. Off., Letters Received, XL, Supp. III. 

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Walt Whitman, poet and hospital attendant, records: "I see the 
President almost every day, as I happen to live where he passes to or 
from his lodgings out of town. . . . I saw him this morning about 
8:30 coming in to business, riding on Vermont Avenue, near L Street. 
He always has a company of twenty-five or thirty cavalry, with sabres 
drawn and held upright over their shoulders."
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               <title>Whitman's Notebook</title>, 1864, in Rice, 469-70.</bibl>
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Cabinet meets. Secs. 
<person key='ST16686'>Stanton</person>
 and Fessenden absent.
<bibl>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
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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>
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President issues pass to Col. Eaton to visit Gen. Grant and instructs 
him to ascertain Grant's reaction to becoming presidential candidate.
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               <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>
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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>
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President orders Maj. John Hay to proceed to Keokuk, Iowa, and having 
executed his verbal instructions to return.
<bibl>DNA&#8212;WR RG 94, Adjt. Gen. Off., Letters Received, XL, Supp. III.</bibl>
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