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<date value='1864-08-12'>Friday, August 12, 1864.</date>
<place>Washington, DC</place>.
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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—WR RG 94, Adjt. Gen. Off., Letters Received, XL, Supp. III.</bibl>
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