Saturday, May 28, 1864.Washington, DC. | At 11:00 A.M. Lincoln replies briefly to resolutions presented by delegation from American Baptist Home Missionary Society. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 28 May 1864, 2d ed., 2:5;
Reply to Delegation of Baptists, 28 May 1864, CW, 7:365. Transmits to Senate partial report of secretary of state and documentation relative to Mexican affairs. Abraham
Lincoln to the Senate, 28 May 1864, CW, 7:365. Answers inquiry of
Cornelius A. Walborn, postmaster at Philadelphia, regarding visit to Great Central Fair: "Whether I can during it's continuance must depend on circumstances." Abraham Lincoln to Cornelius A. Walborn, 28 May 1864,
CW, 7:365-66. [Sometime during this week Mrs. Lincoln visits Armory Square Hospital in capital and gives flower seeds. Gazette comments: "We have been under obligations to this excellent woman, for contributions of flowers to place in the Coffins of our deceased Soldiers, sent home for burial." Armory Square Hospital Gazette (Washington, DC), 28 May 1864, 2:4.] |