Mrs. Gabriel R. Paul urges Lincoln to promote her husband to brigadier general. "She is a saucy woman and I am afraid she will keep tormenting till I may have to do it." Memorandum: Appointment of Gabriel R. Paul, 23 August 1862, CW, 5:390-91.

Gen. Stone applies to President for explanation of his arrest. Committee on Conduct of War, Report (1863), 2:500.