Thursday, June 19, 1862.Washington, DC.
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President, accompanied by
Sec. Stanton
and Gen. Wadsworth, reviews
Scott Cavalry Regiment.
Boston Advertiser, 20 June 1862.
Secretary of Senate ordered to "wait upon Presdt. of U.S. and inform
him that, in the absence of the V.P., the Senate has chosen the
Honorable Solomon Foot Presdt. of the Senate pro tempore."
Memorandum, 19 June 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
President approves act securing freedom to all persons within U.S. territories.
Stat. L., XII, 432.
Writes Gen. McClellan: "If large re-inforcements are going from
Richmond to Jackson, it proves one of two things, either that they
are very strong at Richmond, or do not mean to defend the place
desperately."
Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan, 19 June 1862, CW, 5:277. |