Lincoln sends anonymous letter to editor of Washington "Chronicle" to call attention to wrong information in article on Chicago "Times." Anonymous Letter to the Editor of the Washington Chronicle, 6 June 1863, CW, 6:251-52.

Mrs. Lincoln sends White House flowers to Mrs. Fox. Fox, Diary, Gist-Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln informs Gen. Dix at Fortress Monroe, Va., of conditions at Vicksburg, Miss. While dispatches "show the siege progressing, they do not show any general fighting, since the 21st. and 22nd. We have nothing from Port-Hudson later than the 29th. when things looked reasonably well for us." Abraham Lincoln to John A. Dix, 6 June 1863, CW, 6:252.