President grants audience requested by Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase to Judge Hugh L. Bond of Baltimore and Henry H. Goldsborough, president, Maryland Senate. Abraham Lincoln to Salmon P. Chase, [1 September 1862], CW, 5:402.

Kansas delegation, including Abel C. Wilder, Kansas political figure, and Senator Lane (Kans.), interviews Lincoln relative to making Kansas separate department. Memorandum, 1 September 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln calls General George B. McClellan to White House and urges him to use his influence to correct unkind feeling of Army of Potomac toward General John Pope. Official Records—Armies 1, XII, pt. 2, 1018.

President and McClellan confer with General Henry W. Halleck at his headquarters until after dark. They write General Orders No. 122 placing McClellan in command of troops around Washington. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 1 September 1862, 2d ed., 3:6; Philadelphia News, 5 September 1862.

Henry Stoddard, treasury clerk and brother of William O. Stoddard, who helped with wounded after Second Manassas (Bull Run), describes what he saw and heard to President. William O. Stoddard, Lincoln's Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard, ed. by William O. Stoddard, Jr. (New York: Exposition Press, 1955), 153-56.