President grants two-hour interview to delegation of Radical Union men from Missouri and Kansas and receives petition asking removal of Gen. Schofield and appointment of Gen. Butler. Hay, Letters and Diary; Washington Chronicle, 1 October 1863; Daily National Republican (Washington, DC), 30 September 1863, 2d ed., 2:4.

Dr. Zacharie arranges afternoon appointment. Zacharie to Lincoln, 29 September 1863, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln writes F. S. Corkran: "Mrs. L. is now at home & would be pleased to see you any time. If the grape time has not passed away, she would be pleased to join in the enterprize you mentioned." Abraham Lincoln to Francis S. Corkran, 30 September 1863, CW, 6:488.