President congratulates José M. Medina on election to presidency of Republic of Honduras. Abraham Lincoln to José M. Medina, 1 June 1864, CW, 7:373.

Confers with Sec. Welles on appointment of midshipmen and with Gen. Schenck (resigned) on selection of retired officers' board members. Welles, Diary.

Visits telegraph office, reads New York "Herald" report on Cleveland, Ohio, convention, asks for Bible and reads aloud from it. Bates, Telegraph Office, 194.

[Irwin deposits in Springfield Marine Bank $645, principal and interest on I. Lindsay note. Pratt, Personal Finances, 166.]

Lincoln receives notice from Gen. Rosecrans of conspiracy by Order of American Knights, reputedly led by former Cong. Vallandigham (Ohio) and by C. Hunt, to overthrow government. Documents should be transmitted by courier. Rosecrans to Lincoln, 2 June 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

President Lincoln issues an order paroling Charles H. Jonas, "now a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island," located near Sandusky, Ohio. Captain Jonas is with the Confederate Army's 12th Regiment Arkansas Infantry. Lincoln grants Jonas "a parol of three weeks" so that he may "visit his dying father, Abram Jonas, at Quincy, Ill." Abra[ha]m Jonas became Quincy's Postmaster "upon...[Lincoln's] election," and, over the years, corresponded with Lincoln, who had once referred to the elder Jonas as "one of my most valued friends." Browning, Diary; Order for Parole of Charles H. Jonas, 2 June 1864, CW, 7:373; Charles M. Segal, "New Light on Lincoln's Parole of Charles H. Jonas," American Jewish Historical Society Vol. 42, No. 4 (June 1953): 407; Quincy Daily Whig Republican (IL), 14 June 1864, 3:3; Abraham Lincoln to Abraham Jonas, 4 February 1860, CW, 3:516.

A. K. McClure, delegate-at-large from Pennsylvania to National Union Party Convention, calls on Lincoln. Alexander K. McClure, Lincoln as a Politician (Putnam, CT: privately printed, 1916), 18.

Mrs. Lincoln attends opera, accompanied by Postmaster Gen. Blair and his daughter. Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

President Lincoln replies to a group of New York "loyal citizens," who invited him to attend a June 4 "mass meeting" to honor General Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln writes, "It is impossible for me to attend. . . . My previous high estimate of Gen. Grant has been maintained and heightened by what has occurred in the remarkable campaign he is now conducting . . . I trust that at your meeting, you will so shape your good words that they may turn to men and guns moving to his and their support." Abraham Lincoln to Frederick A. Conkling and Others, 3 June 1864, CW, 7:374.

Interviews at White House groups of delegates en route to National Union Convention in Baltimore. Welles, Diary.

Approves act providing national currency, secured by pledge of U.S. bonds, and providing for circulation and redemption thereof. Stat. L., XIII, 99.

[Irwin draws $3.53 draft on Springfield Marine Bank, for taxes on Council Bluffs, Iowa, land. Pratt, Personal Finances, 177.]

President continues to welcome all delegations to Baltimore Convention, knowing many will not be admitted: carpetbaggers, Negroes, sutlers claiming to represent states still in rebellion. Monaghan, Diplomat, 364; Hay, Letters and Diary.

Marine Band gives public concert on grounds of Executive Mansion at 5:00 p.m. Daily National Republican (Washington, DC), 4 June 1864, 2d ed., 2:6; 6 June 1864, 2d ed., 2:6.

President interviews Prof. Eben N. Horsford of Cambridge, Mass., and Lewis H. Morgan, anthropologist of Rochester, N.Y., regarding Pvt. James McCarthy, Co. K, 140th New York Regiment, under sentence for attempt to desert. Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade, 6 June 1864, CW, 7:378.

Grants audience to Stephen C. Massett, lecturer, and gives him card of introduction to Prof. Henry. Massett to Lincoln, 6 June 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Consults Sec. Chase about collector of customs at New York. Official Records—Armies 600-3.

Listens while John Hay reads letter from John Nicolay describing pre-convention activities in Baltimore. Instructs Hay to reply. Wishes not to interfere in nomination of Vice President and has no suggestion in regard to platform or organization of convention. Dennett, Hay Diaries and Letters, 186; Endorsement Concerning Leonard Swett and Joseph Holt, [6 June 1864], CW, 7:376-78.

Consults at length with Sen. Lane (Kans.) about national political situation and outlook. William O. Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times (New York: C. L. Webster, 1890), 240-41.

Receives May salary warrant for $2,022.34. Pratt, Personal Finances, 183.

Writes Gen. Henry W. Slocum at Vicksburg: "My friend, Thomas A. Marshall, . . . has some difficulty in managing a plantation in your Department. . . . I personally know, so far as such things can be known that Mr. Marshall is loyal, truthful, and honorable; and that I shall be glad for him to be obliged in any not unreasonable way." Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Slocum, 6 June 1864, CW, 7:378-79.

Frederick C. Meyer, chairman, Baltimore Convention, telegraphs Lincoln: "The Convention has just been called to order everything progressing." Meyer to Lincoln, 7 June 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

President interviews Burton C. Cook, chairman of Illinois delegation to Baltimore Convention. Charles E. Hamlin, Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1899), 474.

Great Central Fair of U.S. Sanitary Commission opens in Philadelphia. President unable to accept invitation to dedicate event. Welsh to Lincoln, 23 May 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

9 P.M. Marshal Lamon telegraphs Lincoln from Baltimore Convention: "Enthusiastic unanimity beyond even my expectations. Preliminaries not yet settled. Nomination to be made tomorrow." Lamon to Lincoln, 7 June 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln deposits May salary warrant for $2,022.34 in Riggs Bank. Pratt, Personal Finances, 183.

Mrs. Lincoln goes to see opera Barber of Seville at Grover's Theatre. Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Evening Star (Washington, DC), 7 June 1864, 1:4.

President grants audience to Elisha H. Allen, envoy and minister from Hawaii, and exchanges short speeches with him. Reply to Elisha H. Allen, 9 June 1864, CW, 7:383; Seward to Lincoln, 6 June 1864, 7 June 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Confers with A. H. Markland, post office official with army, regarding postal service orders which Sec. Stanton refuses to issue. Rice, 227.

Replies to notification committee headed by former Governor William Dennison (Ohio): "I will neither conceal my gratification, nor restrain the expression of my gratitude, that the Union people, through their convention, in their continued effort to save, and advance the nation, have deemed me not unworthy to remain in my present position." Reply to Committee Notifying Lincoln of His Renomination, 9 June 1864, CW, 7:380-83; Evening Star (Washington, DC), 9 June 1864, 2d ed., 2:4.

A day after the Republican Convention concluded in Baltimore, where the delegates re-nominated Lincoln for president, a committee delivers the news to President Lincoln. Lincoln also accepts the congratulations of the National Union League, and he remarks, "I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that 'it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.'" Reply to Delegation from the National Union League, 9 June 1864, CW, 7:383-84; Evening Star (Washington, D. C.), 9 June 1864, 2:4, The New York Times (NY), 10 June 1864, 1:6.

Receives congratulations of Philadelphia delegation to recent convention in Baltimore. Lamon, Recollections, 160.

Responds to serenade by Ohio delegation and Prof. Mentor's brass band. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 10 June 1864, 2d ed., Extra, 3:1.

Consults with John Hay just before bedtime about message from General Rosecrans concerning conspiracy to overthrow government. Hay, Letters and Diary.

President hands John Hay note for Gen. Rosecrans at St. Louis, before Hay is out of bed. Hay, Letters and Diary.

Issues order: "Major John Hay, Assistant Adjutant General, will repair at once to St. Louis Missouri, and having executed my verbal instructions will return to his station here." Order to John Hay, 10 June 1864, CW, 7:386.

Interviews O. H. Browning at night relative to appointing Mrs. Abraham Jonas postmaster of Quincy, Ill. [See June 2, 1864.] Browning, Diary.

Sends Prof. Henry results of efforts to get pardon for Pvt. McCarthy. Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Henry, 10 June 1864, CW, 7:385.

Acknowledges receipt of Triennial Congregational Convention resolutions regarding day of national prayer, and atrocities committed on colored troops. Abraham Lincoln to Julian M. Sturtevant, 10 June 1864, CW, 7:388.

Lincoln addresses 130th Ohio Volunteers, 100-day troops recently arrived in Washington. Remarks to One Hundred Thirtieth Ohio Regiment, 11 June 1864, CW, 7:388-89.

Confers with Atty. Gen. Bates, who protests confiscation Orders Nos. 30 and 33 of Gen. Wallace at Baltimore. Bates, Diary.

Approves act providing for execution of treaties between U.S. and foreign nations regarding consular jurisdiction over crews of foreign vessels in U.S. waters and ports. Stat. L., XIII, 121.

Turns over to secretary of treasury for reinvestment salary warrants for February 1864 and March 1864, with balance of $89 from purchase of notes on January 12, 1864, and all his government securities, total amount $54,515.07. Pratt, Personal Finances, 128, 183.

President receives request from Gen. George W. Dietezeler, Kansas Militia, for permission to call out 2,000 militia for 80 days to protect state against bushwhackers. DNA—WR RG 107, Off. Sec. War, EB 6, Entry 387.

John Nicolay starts on trip west because of poor health. Daily National Republican (Washington, DC), 13 June 1864, 2:4; reprinted in Evening Star, (Washington, DC), 14 June 1864, 2:1.

President communicates with Robert: "My dear Son Of course I will try to give the sittings for the 'Crayon.' Your Father." [Probably Col. David H. Strother, whose pseudonym was "Porte Crayon," writer and artist employed by "Harper's New Monthly Magazine."] Abraham Lincoln to Robert Todd Lincoln, 14 June 1864, CW, 7:392.

In conversation with Noah Brooks, Lincoln says that he will be satisfied if war in Virginia is over within a year. Brooks, Washington, 149.

President telegraphs Mrs. Lincoln in Boston: "All well, and very warm. Tad and I have been to Gen. Grant's army. Returned yesterday safe and sound." Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, 24 June 1864, CW, 7:406.

Lays before Senate treaty with Kansas tribe of Indians. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, 24 June 1864, CW, 7:407.

Cabinet meets. President in good spirits. Welles, Diary.

Asks Atty. Gen. Bates for "opinion in writing as to what pay, bounty, and clothing are allowed by law to persons of color who were free on the 19th. day of April, 1861, and who have been enlisted and mustered into the military service of the United States between the month of December, 1862 and the 16th. of June 1864." Abraham Lincoln to Edward Bates, 24 June 1864, CW, 7:404-6.

Requests Gen. Rosecrans to report on complaint that Gen. Egbert B. Brown does not do his best to suppress bushwhackers. Abraham Lincoln to William S. Rosecrans, 24 June 1864, CW, 7:407.

President confers with Sec. Welles on removal of Isaac Henderson, navy agent at New York. Abraham Lincoln to William C. Bryant, 27 June 1864, CW, 7:409-10.

President Lincoln writes to William Dennison, who chaired the Republican Party's national convention, where delegates nominated Lincoln for a second term. Dennison explained, "The Union men of the country . . . have seen you throughout this tremendous contest patient, sagacious, faithful, just; leaning upon the heart of the great mass of the people." Lincoln "gratefully accept[s]" the nomination and he commends the convention for recognizing the military. He writes, "[T]he soldier and the seaman . . . forever must and will be remembered by the grateful country for whose salvation they devote their lives." William Dennison, et al. to Abraham Lincoln, 14 June 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Abraham Lincoln to William Dennison and Others, 27 June 1864, CW, 7:411-12.

Approves act to prevent smuggling, and for other purposes. Stat. L., XIII, 197.