Lincoln has busy day in Circuit Court. In evening he listens to speech of John Calhoun which "Register" characterizes as "luminous, convincing, and unanswerable." Lincoln answers Calhoun either this evening or tomorrow evening.Register, 29 March 1844.

Lincoln votes against motion to take from table and refer to Committee on Military Affairs Senate bill for raising ten additional regiments of regular troops. It fails.Globe.

President pardons two British subjects who have served three years of seven-year sentence in District jail for resisting master of American vessel in Florida. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 28 March 1862, 2d ed., 3:1.

Acknowledges letter of Henry B. Whipple, bishop of Minnesota, regarding treatment of Indians in Minnesota. Abraham Lincoln to Henry B. Whipple, 27 March 1862, CW, 5:173.

Former Lt. Gov. Daniel S. Dickinson (N.Y.) and friend, Edward J. Westcott, confer with President on trading at Newbern, N.C. Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, 27 March 1863, CW, 6:150.

In the East Room of the White House, Lincoln meets with a contingent of Indian chiefs, two of whom speak through a translator. Cheyenne Chief Lean Bear expresses concern about the number of whites moving west. He desires "peace," but wonders if the "white men on the plains" want the same. Arapahoe Chief Spotted Wolf seeks Lincoln's words of wisdom. Lincoln asserts that the whites are more "prosperous because they cultivate the earth." He adds, in spite of the civil war now taking place, whites are less inclined "to fight and kill one another as our red brethren." Daily Morning Chronicle (Washington, DC), 28 March 1863, 1:1-2; Speech to Indians, 27 March 1863, CW, 6:151-53.

James Blake of Indianapolis, Ind., discusses appointments with President. Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 27 March 1863, CW, 6:153.

Lincoln receives Jacob Wilson on recommendation of Mayor George Opdyke (N.Y.) and directs him to Sec. Stanton . Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 27 March 1863, CW, 6:154.

President at War Department in evening for conference with Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Henry W. Halleck and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 28 March 1864, 2d ed., 2:1; Washington Chronicle, 28 March 1864.

Lt. Comdr. Barnes reports as usual aboard River Queen and walks with President to General Grant's headquarters. Lincoln returns for lunch. After lunch President's party, including Barnes and Robert, makes trip to Appomattox River to Point of Rocks. Barnes, "With Lincoln," 524.

General William T. Sherman arrives at City Point, Va., in evening, and President has conference with him, Grant, and Rear Adm. Porter aboard River Queen. Official Records—Armies 1, XLVI, pt. 3, 196; Evening Star (Washington, DC), 31 March 1865, 3d ed., Extra, 1:5; William H. Crook, "Lincoln as I Knew Him. Compiled and written down by Margarita S. Gerry," Harper's Monthly Magazine 114 (December 1906):47.

Lincoln telegraphs Secretary of War Stanton : "Yours inclosing Fort-Sumpter order received. I think of but one suggestion. I feel quite confident that Sumpter fell on the thirteenth (13th.) and not on the fourteenth (14th.) of April as you have it. . . . Look up the old Almanac & other data and see if I am not right." Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 27 March 1865, CW, 8:375-76.