<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-03-01'>Wednesday, March 1, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Sen. Trumbull (Ill.), Cong. James F. Wilson (Iowa), and Cong. John L. 
Dawson (Pa.), committee of Congress, notify President of his 
reelection. Lincoln replies briefly: "With assured reliance on that 
Almighty Ruler who has so graciously sustained us thus far; and with 
increased gratitude to the generous people for their continued 
confidence, I accept the renewed trust, with it's yet onerous and 
perplexing duties and responsibilities."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A697' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Notification Committee</xref>, [1 March 1865], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:326-27.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President compliments Thomas W. Conway, general superintendent of 
freedmen, Dept. of the Gulf, on his "success in the work of their 
moral and physical elevation."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A694' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas W. Conway</xref>, 1 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:325.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gen. Scott, Howard Potter, William E. Dodge, Jr., and Theodore 
Roosevelt, Sr., members of Protective War Claim Association of 
Sanitary Commission: "I shall at all times be ready to recognize the 
paramount claims of the soldiers of the nation, in the disposition of 
public trusts. I shall be glad also to make these suggestions to the 
several Heads of Departments."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A698' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Winfield Scott and Others</xref>, 1 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:327-28.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-03-02'>Thursday, March 2, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President requests Provost Marshal General to
  exempt William H. Crook and Alexander Smith, White House guards, from draft. 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A701' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James B. Fry</xref>, 2 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:328.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Telegraphs Gen.
  Grant: "You have not sent contents of Richmond papers for Tuesday or Wednesday.
  Did you not receive them? If not, does it indicate anything?" [Lincoln
  apparently was anxious about Gen. Sherman. Grant replied same day: "There is
  every indication that Genl Sherman is perfectly safe. I am looking every day
  for direct news from 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=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A702' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 2 March 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:329.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-03-03'>Friday, March 3, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President orders cotton permit for Charles E. Fuller, who has 
agreement to sell 10,000 bales to government.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A706' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Cotton Permit for Charles E. Fuller</xref>, 3 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:330.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Sen. William A. Richardson (Ill.) and S. Corning Judd on 
subject of public interest.
<bibl default='NO'>Judd to Lincoln, 3 March 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Approves act establishing bureau for relief of freedmen and refugees.
<bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XIII, 507.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives House committee with notice of adjournment unless there are 
further communications.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>, 455.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln responds to serenade by delegation of New Yorkers accompanied 
by Eastman's Business College band of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A709' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response to Serenade</xref>, 3 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:331.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Goes to Capitol at night to sign final bills passed by Congress.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 4 March 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet members with President at Capitol. Sec. Welles remains until midnight.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Thirty Eighth Congress remains in session until 8 A.M. March 4, 1865. 

<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 interrupts President to confer about letter from Gen. R. 
E. Lee to Gen. Grant, proposing meeting to end hostilities. Lincoln 
instructs 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
 to notify Grant that conference can be granted only 
on basis of Lee's surrender.
<bibl default='NO'>Stanton to Dix, 22 April 1865, Edwin M. Stanton Papers, Library of Congress, Washington DC; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A708' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Edwin M. Stanton to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 3 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:330-31.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At 9 P.M. <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> is in Diplomatic Gallery.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 4 March 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President transmits to Congress report and accompanying papers from 
secretary of state relating to act to regulate diplomatic and 
consular systems 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=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A710' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 3 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:331-32.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-03-04'>Saturday, March 4, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President spends morning at Capitol. <bibl default='NO'>LL, No.
  1452.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At 11:45 A.M. Vice President Hamlin escorts President to
  Senate Chamber to witness swearing-in of Vice-President-elect Johnson. From
  Senate Chamber President proceeds to platform erected in front of central
  portico of Capitol. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 5 March 1865.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Sen. Harlan (Iowa) escorts <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> to
  inaugural ceremonies. <bibl default='NO'>Helm, <title corresp='books_Helm'>Mary</title>,
  244.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln takes oath of office, administered by Chief
  Justice Chase, shortly after noon and delivers Second Inaugural Address. 
  <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1452.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln states that very little can be
  presented that is new since beginning of war. War came because one party would
  rather make war than let Nation survive, and other party would accept war
  rather than let it perish. Lincoln believes that war has lasted longer than
  anyone expected, that both sides have sought God's assistance, and that the
  Almighty has his own purpose. "With malice toward none; with charity for all; .
  . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among
  ourselves, and with all nations." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A711' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Second
  Inaugural Address</xref>, 4 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:332-33.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Thousands of
  Negroes, heretofore excluded from such affairs, mingle with spectators.
  Frequent applause breaks out during reading of Address. <bibl default='NO'>Adolphe de
  Pineton, marquis de Chambrun, <title>Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War:
  A Foreigner's Account</title> (New York: Random House, 1952), 38-40.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> President, accompanied by Tad and Sen. Foster (Conn.), leaves Capitol
  and occupies carriage in procession to White House. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle,
  5 March 1865.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> 
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>
  receives from Chase Bible kissed by Lincoln on taking oath of office. Chase
  comments that sun broke through at same time and was "an auspicious omen of the
  dispersion of the clouds of war and the restoration of the clear sunlight of
  prosperous peace." <bibl default='NO'>Chase to <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>,
  4 March 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library
  of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President and
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> drive out during afternoon in open
  barouche. Stop at Willard's Hotel for <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person> to visit friend. <bibl default='NO'>Philip V. D. Stern, <title>An End to
  Valor: The Last Days of the Civil War</title> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958),
  20.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Public reception 8 P.M. at White House. Largest reception
  this season. President shakes hands with 6,000 persons. Also receives Army
  officers to discuss military matters. <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1452; Washington Chronicle,
  5 March 1865; Washington Star, 6 March 1865.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-03-05'>Sunday, March 5, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In morning President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> attend religious service at 
Capitol and hear sermon by Bishop Simpson.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6 March 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President comments on sun breaking through clouds as he took oath of 
office yesterday.
<bibl default='NO'>Brooks, <title corresp='books_Brooks2'>Washington</title>, 74.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Interviews Comptroller of Currency McCulloch and asks him to take 
post of secretary of treasury.
<bibl default='NO'>Hugh McCulloch, <title>Men and Measures of Half a Century: Sketches and Comments</title> (New York: Scribner, 1888), 193.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers again with Thurlow Weed regarding vacancy in Treasury Dept.
<bibl default='NO'>Thurlow W. Barnes, ed., <title>Life of Thurlow Weed including his Autobiography and a Memoir</title>, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), 1:622.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Invites Cong. Colfax (Ind.) to accompany family to Inaugural Ball.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A712' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Schuyler Colfax</xref>, 5 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:334.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-03-06'>Monday, March 6, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln converses with former Cong. John T. Stuart (Ill.) and gives 
him card to H. A. Risley.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A718' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hanson A. Risley</xref>, 6 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:337.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Senate committee announces to President that Senate is ready to 
receive communications.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Journal</title>, 348.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
At noon President receives diplomatic corps.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6 March 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Poses for photograph by Henry F. Warren of Waltham, Mass.
<bibl default='NO'>Frederick H. Meserve and Carl Sandburg, <title>The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln</title> (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1944), 6 March 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In conference with Marcus L. Ward, philanthropist, "soldiers' friend," 
and later governor of New Jersey, reiterates value of Vice President 
Johnson in work before administration.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 23 April 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sec. Fessenden resigns.
<bibl default='NO'>Josiah G. Holland, <title>The Life of Abraham Lincoln</title> (Springfield, MA: G. Bill, 1866), 505.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Chief Justice Chase consults with President an hour in effort to 
exempt counties in eastern Virginia from "insurrectionary 
proclamation."
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln receives members of Perseverance Fire Co. of Philadelphia in 
East Room at 4 P.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 6 March 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Appoints Comptroller of Currency McCulloch secretary of treasury.
<bibl default='NO'>Arnold, 628.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Notifies Sen. Sumner (Mass.): "Unless you send me word to the 
contrary, I shall this evening call with my carriage at your house, 
to take you with me to the Inauguration Ball."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A720' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles Sumner</xref>, 6 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:337.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Between 10 and 11 P.M. Presidential party arrives at Patent Office, 
where Inaugural Ball is in progress. Robert is present with Mary, 
daughter of Sen. Harlan (Iowa). Shortly after midnight, supper is 
served; Presidential party withdraws about 1 A.M.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 7 March 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln receives February salary warrant for $1,976.22.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 184.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Sec. Seward: "I have some wish that Thomas D. Jones, of 
Cincinnati, and John J. Piatt [poet], now of this city, should have 
some of those moderate sized consulates which facilitate artists a 
little [in] their profession. Please watch for chances."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A718' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 6 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:337.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-03-07'>Tuesday, March
  7, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  interviews Judge Dixon (probably Judge William M. Dickson of Cincinnati) and
  issues pass to Nashville. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A732' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Pass
  for Judge Dixon</xref>, 7 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:342.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Spends much time
  endorsing applications for jobs and issuing orders for persons who own products
  of insurrectionary states to bring such products within military lines for sale
  to agents of government. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A726' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement
  Concerning Phillip C. Schuyler</xref>, [c. 7 March 1865],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:338;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A728' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  Concerning James Andrews</xref>, 7 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:339-40;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A729' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  Concerning Mrs. Charlotte Hough</xref>, 7 March 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:340;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A730' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  Concerning Samuel H. Jones and John Talbot</xref>, 7 March 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:341;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A731' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Order
  Concerning Lucius H. Terry</xref>, 7 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:341-42.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews H. de
  Mareil, editor of French newspaper in New York, and gives him letter to Sec.
  Welles. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A734' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, 7 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:343.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet meets. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Writes Gen. Grant: "In accordance with a Joint Resolution of Congress, approved
  December 17, 1863, I now have the honor of transmitting, and presenting to you,
  in the name of the People of the United States of America, a copy of said
  resolution, engrossed on parchment, together with the gold medal therein
  ordered and directed. Please accept, for yourself and all under your command,
  the renewed expression of my gratitude for your and their arduous and
  well-performed public service." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A727' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 7 March 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:339.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-03-08'>Wednesday, March 8, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President receives resignation of Sec. Usher.
<bibl default='NO'>Usher to Lincoln, 8 March 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with Sec. Seward about appointments suitable for Montgomery 
Blair and decides to offer him post of minister to either Spain or 
Austria.
<bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 9 March 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Confers with 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 about dispatches from Gen. Grant relative 
to supplies getting through to enemy.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A736' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 8 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:343-45.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives delegation from first congressional district of 
Pennsylvania, which questions application of draft law.
<bibl default='NO'>Randall to Lincoln, 18 March 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Sends to Senate nomination of Comdr. John J. Young (USN, retd.) to be 
captain in Navy on reserved list, "from the 12th August, 1854." 
Transmits to Senate report from secretary of state relative to 
certain joint resolution regarding railroads.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A738' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 8 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:345-46.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-03-09'>Thursday, March 9, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President accepts resignation of Sec. Usher, to take effect May 15, 1865.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A743' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement Concerning John P. Usher</xref>, 9 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:347.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives Gov. Thomas Swann (Md.) and friends, who complain about 
certain Maryland appointments.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A745' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum Concerning Maryland Appointments</xref>, 9 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:348.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Telegraphs W. O. Bartlett at Philadelphia: "It will soon be too late 
if you are not here." [Bartlett, delayed by inclement weather, was 
carrying James Gordon Bennett's refusal of appointment to French 
court. The Senate was to adjourn on March 11, 1865, hence further 
delay might be too late for getting appointment confirmed.]
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A740' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William O. Bartlett</xref>, 9 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:346.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-03-10'>Friday, March 10, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
At 9:30 A.M. President discusses with John A. Poor, member of 
committee from Maine, possibility of offering cabinet post to former 
Vice President Hamlin.
<bibl default='NO'>Poor to Lincoln, 9 March 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-03-11'>Saturday, March 11, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President issues proclamation offering pardon to
  deserters who return to service and inflicting loss of citizenship on those who
  do not. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A748' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
  Offering Pardon to Deserters</xref>, 11 March 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:349-50.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Sends
  William Van Dalsan to <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> with note. 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A750' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 11 March 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:351.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Senate
  committee notifies President of adjournment unless he has further
  communications. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Senate Journal</title>, 355.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> O.
  H. Browning and former Judge Hughes see President about schemes of J. W.
  Singleton to make millions trading in produce from southern states. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  President discusses for hour terms of draft with delegation from first
  congressional district of Pennsylvania. <bibl default='NO'>Randall to Lincoln, 18 March
  1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> 
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs.
  Lincoln</person>, assisted by President, holds her last afternoon reception of
  season from 1 to 5 P.M. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 11 March 1865.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  John Nicolay nominated and confirmed as consul in Paris at salary of $5,000. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Nicolay to Bates, 12 March 1865, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-03-12'>Sunday, March 12, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President confers with former Cong. Arnold (Ill.) and offers him 
position as auditor for Treasury Dept.
<bibl default='NO'>Arnold to Lincoln, 13 March 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Dr. Henry and Noah Brooks visit with Lincoln for half hour.
<bibl default='NO'>Anson G. Henry to wife, 13 March 1865, Anson G. Henry Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-03-13'>Monday, March 13, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"Mr. Lincoln is reported quite sick to-day, and has denied himself to 
all visitors."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>N.Y. Herald</title>, 14 March 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President asks Gen. Grant to interview former Judge Hughes regarding 
destruction of tobacco at Fredericksburg, Va., by Union 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=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A754' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 13 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:353.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-03-14'>Tuesday, March 14, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President is ill. Cabinet meets in his bedroom.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-03-15'>Wednesday, March 15, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
President has recovered from illness and is at his office today. He 
receives only his cabinet and others on urgent business.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 15 March 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Receives credentials of Count Wydenbruck, Austrian minister, and 
replies to his speech.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A760' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Reply to Count Wydenbruck</xref>, 15 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:355.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Conducts long interview with delegation from Louisiana regarding 
organization of civil government.
<bibl default='NO'>Field to Lincoln, 16 March 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Converses with Rev. Samuel Roberts, who is writing articles on 
America for newspapers in England and Wales.
<bibl default='NO'>Roberts to Lincoln, 14 March 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, accompanied by Clara Harris, daughter of 
Sen. Harris (N.Y.), and Gen. James G. Wilson, visit Grover's Theatre 
for performance of opera "The Magic Flute."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 16 March 1865; James G. Wilson, "Recollections of Abraham Lincoln," <title>Putnam's Magazine</title> 5 (March 1909):528-29.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Thurlow Weed: "Thank you for yours on my little 
notification speech, and on the recent Inaugeral [sic] Address. I 
expect the latter to wear as well as&#8212;perhaps better 
than&#8212;any thing I have produced; but I believe it is not 
immediately popular. Men are not flattered by being shown that there 
has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A764' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed</xref>, 15 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:356.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1865-03-16'>Thursday, March 16, 1865.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Early in morning, Lincoln tells O. H. Browning at White House that 

<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 has gone to see Gen. Grant about operations of J. W. 
Singleton.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Takes short ride accompanied by Tad. Still feeble.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 17 March 1865.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Writes Gov. John Evans (Colorado Terr.): "As you are Governor of the 
Territory of Colorado, and Hon. J. M. Ashley, of Ohio is, and 
probably will again be, Chairman of the Committee on Territories, of 
the H. R. there is no objection to your corresponding with him about 
territorial 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=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A765' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Evans</xref>, 16 March 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:356.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-03-17'>Friday, March
  17, 1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President calls
  for arrest and trial by courtmartial