President receives Blas Bruzual, minister from Venezuela, and replies to speech. Reply to Blas Bruzual, 5 September 1864, CW, 7:536-37.

At 12 M. salutes fired, as ordered by President on September 3, 1864. Henry J. Raymond, The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln . . . Together with his State Papers, including his Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations and the Closing Scenes Connected with his Life and Death (New York: Derby & Miller, 1865), 546.

Lincoln receives August salary warrant for $1,981.67. Pratt, Personal Finances, 183.