Lincoln visits Capitol to see "Antrobus," a picture of Gen. Grant. Chicago Tribune, 28 February 1864.

White House reception "pretty well" attended by visitors and foreign dignitaries. National Intelligencer, 29 February 1864.

Lincoln replies to Sec. Stanton 's request for instructions in relation to report of special commission to revise the enrollment and quotas of the city and state of New York: "I think this report may, on full consideration, be shown to have much that is valuable in it, . . . and that it be especially considered whether it's suggestions can be conformed to without an alteration of the law." Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 27 February 1864, CW, 7:210-11.