July 02

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-07-02'>Monday, July 2, 1832.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> up <place key='' teiForm='name'>Rock River</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Army encamps opposite mouth of Yahara River (sometimes called River of the
            Four Lakes).<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Johnston Journal</title>, Black Hawk War Collection, Abraham
               Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-07-02'>Saturday,
  July 2, 1836.</date> 
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> ["Sangamo Journal" announces that "Republican," Springfield's
  Democratic paper, compliments Lincoln for course he took in legislature on bill
  "permitting the State Bank to take the million dollars worth of reserve stock
  and obligating the bank to pay the Wiggins loan" of $100,000 made in 1831.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 2 July 1836.</bibl>]</p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-02'>Monday, July 2, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The Sangamon County Circuit Court opens for a two-week term with Judge Jesse B.
    Thomas, Jr., presiding. The court appoints Lincoln guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> for the infant
    defendants in <name type='case' key='L04575'>State Bank of Illinois v. Musick et
     al.</name> In the chancery case <name type='case' key='L04616'>Stevenson v.
     Abrams et al.</name>, the court grants the complainant permission to take the deposition of the
    defendant Abrams. Stuart, Lincoln, and Treat represent the complainant John G. Stevenson.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln, representing Matthew McNair, writes and signs a joinder to the
    defendant's first plea in <name type='case' key='L04912'>McNair v. Adams</name>.
     <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
    DC.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-07-02'>Thursday, July 2, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln files declaration in <name type='case' key='L03615'>Iles v. Lyman &amp; Lyman</name> in Sangamon Circuit Court. E. Iles is seeking
            to collect note for $120 given by Lyman to Eddin Lewis and taken over by Iles in January
            1840. Lincoln writes declarations in two other cases: <name type='case' key='L04479'>Short v. Ditson et al.</name>, and <name type='case' key='L04624'>Stockton v. Tolly</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy;
               Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Eleventh issue of "The Old Soldier" appears.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-07-02'>Saturday, July 2, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln "signs" confidential circular addressed to Henry Enoch Dummer and
            others in Cass and Scott senatorial district, urging them to run Whig for state Senate.
            Some trouble has arisen under new apportionment bill and they do not wish to fail in
            getting Whig into office if possible.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A305' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Circular to Henry E. Dummer
                  and Others</xref>, 2 July 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:287-88.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes memorandum in <name type='case'>Carpenter v.
               Wash et al.</name>, and signs for his client, Milton H. Wash.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-07-02'>Tuesday, July 2, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys merchandise, $2.40.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1848-07-02'>Sunday,
  July 2, 1848.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Congressman Lincoln writes to his wife
  <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mary Lincoln</person>, who is visiting
  family in Lexington, Kentucky. He received invoices from two merchants, and
  writes, "I hesitated to pay them, because my recollection is that you told
  me . . . there was nothing left unpaid." Lincoln relays news about Congressman
  William Richardson's family: "Mrs. Richardson is still here; and what is more,
  has a baby&#8212;so Richardson says, and he ought to know." Lincoln advises
  Mary to hire someone to help her care for their sons, "the dear codgers,"
  Robert and Eddie. Lincoln adds, "Father expected to see you all sooner; but let
  it pass; stay as long as you please, and come when you please. Kiss and love
  the dear rascals." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A505' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary
  Todd Lincoln</xref>, 2 July 1848,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:495-96.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-07-02'>Tuesday, July 2, 1850.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1852-07-02'>Friday, July 2, 1852.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In U.S. Circuit Court Lincoln and Logan file plaintiff's declaration 
in <name type='case'>John Moore, use of Bank of Indiana v. Buchanan 
and Vandermark</name>. They filed their praecipe April 30, 1852. They 
allege failure of defendants to pay promissory note for $2,134 made 
by them to John Ross and assigned to bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1855-07-02'>Monday, July 2, 1855.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
U.S. Circuit and District Courts for new Northern District of 
Illinois convene. Judges McLean and Drummond preside. "The dockets 
are heavy, and include many important cases."
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Democratic Press, 2 July 1855.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln attends session.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A330' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles Hoyt</xref>, 10 July 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:314.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1858-07-02'>Friday, July 2, 1858.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln sends Robert Moseley of Paris "a little article" he wants 
published in "Prairie Beacon" next week. "Besides my own 
recollection, I have carefully examined the Journals since I saw you; 
and I know the editor will be entirely safe in publishing the 
article. Get it into the first paper."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A523' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Robert Moseley</xref>, 2 July 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:483.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys two fans at John Williams' store, then sends Robert 
for pair of white gloves.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 149.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1859-07-02'>Saturday, July 2, 1859.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Peoria and Hannibal Railroad case comes up again. It is continued, 
but on Lincoln's motion defendant is ruled to plead in 20 days, or 
plaintiff is to have judgment by default.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1860-07-02'>Monday, July 2, 1860.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln poses for Barry.
<bibl default='NO'>Granite Monthly, October 1904-December 1904, 102-4.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes letter of introduction for D. L. Phillips of Anna, calling 
him one of the "most active and efficient republicans in Illinois. He 
is doing good service in our cause; and will ask nothing not needed, 
and misapply nothing received by 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=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A98' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>To Whom It May Concern: For David L. Phillips</xref>, 2 July 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:81.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Chicago Tribune notes that Willie Lincoln is dangerously ill with 
scarlet fever.
</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1861-07-02'>Tuesday, July
  2, 1861.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President
  authorizes General Scott to suspend writ of habeas corpus if necessary at any
  point of any military line between Washington and New York. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A736' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Simon Cameron</xref>, 2 July 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:419.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Confers with Gen.
  John C. Fremont who leaves for command in West. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y.
  Times</title>, 4 July 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> At 2 P.M. receives Henri Mercier,
  French minister. <bibl default='NO'>Seward to Lincoln, 1 July 1861, Robert Todd Lincoln
  Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews Cong. Henry May (Md.), about to leave for
  Richmond. <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>N.Y. Times</title>, 8 July 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> With
  Sec. Cameron reviews 2d New Hampshire and 11th Massachusetts Regiments. 
  <bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 3 July 1861.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Visits camp of 11th
  Massachusetts Regiment on Pennsylvania Ave. <bibl default='NO'>Allen C. Clark,
  <title>Abraham Lincoln in the National Capital</title> (Washington, DC: W. F.
  Roberts Co., 1925), 27.</bibl> 
         </p>
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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1862-07-02'>Wednesday, July 2, 1862.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President announces signing of treaty of commerce
  with Ottoman Empire. <bibl default='NO'>National Intelligencer, 6 August 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cong. George W. Julian (Ind.) discusses military outlook with President. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Rice, 54.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> In conference with <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec.
  Stanton</person> on subject of fugitive Negroes President decides that by law
  they cannot be sent back to masters, should not be allowed to starve, should be
  given work and paid reasonable wages. <bibl default='NO'>Butler,
  <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>, 2:41-42.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Signs number of important bills; among them, Act to Prohibit Polygamy in Utah,
  and Pacific Railroad Act. <bibl default='NO'>Boston Advertiser, 21 July 1862; N.Y. Tribune,
  3 July 1862.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Reads Gen. McClellan's dispatches to Sen. Browning
  (Ill.) at White House. <bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Approves Morrill Land
  Grant College Act donating public lands to states and territories providing
  colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts. <bibl default='NO'>Stat. L., XII, 503.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Again writes Gen. Halleck that reinforcements would be welcome but not
  at cost of delaying Chattanooga expedition. Asks if Halleck could "make me a
  flying visit." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A666' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck</xref>, 2 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:300-1.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Informs McClellan
  that "the idea of sending you fifty thousand, or any other considerable force
  promptly, is simply absurd. . . . Save the Army, . . . and I will strengthen it
  for the offensive again, as fast as I can." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A667' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 2 July 1862,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:301-2.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Returns to
  Senate unapproved bill for additional medical officers because it is superseded
  by approved bill. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A669' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 2 July 1862, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:302.</bibl> 
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1863-07-02'>Thursday, July 2, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In morning Sec. Welles finds Lincoln at War Dept. reading dispatches 
from Gen. Meade.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"Lincoln was in the telegraph office hour after hour during those 
anxious days and nights."
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 155.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln asks 
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
 to pay advertising bill of "National 
Republican." It is "a source of trouble to me."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A662' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 2 July 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:313.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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  <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>President Lincoln writes to U.S. Supreme Court justice and friend David
  Davis and to federal judge Samuel H. Treat, of Springfield, Illinois, seeking
  each man's "summary of the evidence, with your impression, on the Coles County
  [Illinois] riot cases." On March 28, in Charleston, members of the 54th
  Illinois Infantry clashed with area Democrats and a riot ensued. Nine people
  died, including six soldiers and three citizens. Twelve people were wounded. 
  <bibl default='NO'> <xref>Abraham Lincoln to David Davis</xref>, 2 July 1864,
  <title>CW</title>, 7:421-22;
  <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; Robert D.
  Sampson, "'Pretty Damned Warm Times': The 1864 Charleston Riot and 'The
  Inalienable Right of Revolution'," <title>Illinois Historical Journal</title>
  89, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 99-116.</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>