Saturday, July
5, 1862.Washington, DC. | President
recognizes Enrique de Ainz as consul of Spain at Portland, Maine and Friedrich
Kuhne as consul for Principality of Reuss Schleitz at New York. National
Intelligencer, 9 July 1862. At telegraph office in afternoon
joins conversation of Sec. Stanton and Maj.
Eckert. Eckert to Colburn, 5 July 1862, George B. McClellan Papers,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Thanks Gen. McClellan for
relief afforded by recent dispatches. "If you can hold your present position,
we shall 'hive' the enemy yet." Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan, 5 July 1862,
CW, 5:307. Transmits to
Senate treaty with "Sac and Fox Indians of the Mississippi." Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate, 5 July 1862, CW, 5:307. In evening Sen.
Browning (Ill.) and friends visit Lincoln at Soldiers' Home. Browning,
Diary. Lincoln retires
early, too exhausted to keep any appointments. Bache to Nicolay, 11 July
1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of
Congress, Washington, DC. Receives June salary warrant for
$2,083.33. Pratt, Personal
Finances, 182. Mrs.
Lincoln in carriage on way to Soldiers' Home tells Comdr. Dahlgren
that President frequently passes sleepless nights. Extracts from Dahlgren
Diary, John G. Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. |