Civil War History - Secession and PoliticsWas it Slavery, or was it States Rights? Perhaps it was the election of Lincoln? What were the real reasons for Southern Secession and what were the political issues in this time of war? Find your answers here in the Secession and Politics Disussion.
1862 - President's nomination of E. M. Stanton for secretary of war confirmed by Senate.
1863 - In morning President confers with Capt. Dahlgren at Navy Yard regarding Capt. Diller's gunpowder.
1864 - President sends Judge Brien to aid Mil. Gov. Johnson in reconstructing loyal state government of Tennessee.
Receives Cong. Moorhead (Pa.) and "distressed" mother who wants to tell her troubles to President.
1865 -Sec. Welles receives message from Rear Adm. Porter: "Fort Fisher is ours."
President telegraphs Gen. Grenville M. Dodge at St. Louis to consider possibility of withdrawing troops from northern Missouri.
"President asks Gen. Grant if Robert could "without embarrassment to you, or detriment to the service, go into your Military family with some nominal rank, I, and not the public, furnishing his necessary means.""
1862: President signs appointment of E. M. Stanton as secretary of war.
1863: At cabinet meeting President asks secretaries for opinions on relative merits of five-foot gauge railroad as opposed to four-foot-one-and-a-half-inch gauge. (UP)
1864: John G. Nicolay thanks H. J. Alvord for present of whitefish to President.
President in fine spirits at White House reception tonight. N.Y. Herald, 22 January 1862.
1863
President approves sentence dismissing Gen. Fitz John Porter from service.
Establishes width of track of Pacific railroads at five feet.
Endorses letter of Gen. Halleck to Gen. Grant: "It may be proper to give you some explanation of the revocation of your order expelling all Jews from your department. The President has no objection to your expelling traitors and Jew peddlers, which, I suppose was the object of your order; but, as it in terms proscribed an entire religious class, some of whom are fighting in our ranks, the President deemed it necessary to revoke it."
1864
President and Mrs. Lincoln entertain at state dinner at 7 P.M. for members of cabinet, justices of Supreme Court, and their wives.
1865
President receives word from Gen. Grant suggesting that Robert join headquarters staff with rank of captain.
Writes Sec. Edwin M. Stanton : "On reflection I think it will not do as a rule for the Adjutant General to attend me wherever I go; not that I have any objection to his presence, but that it would be an uncompensating incumbrance both to him and me."
1863
Gen. McClernand, reduced to corps commander, blames Gen. Halleck and interviews President who counsels "that for your sake, for my sake, & for the country's sake," he forget personal grievances.
Promises to nominate Gen. Frederick Steele a major general upon satisfactory explanation of charges made against him for returning fugitive slaves.
1864
President announces to delegation from Arkansas that both military and civil administration are entrusted to Gen. Steele.
"Very little done at the Cabinet." Welles, Diary.
1865
President confers with Gov. Reuben E. Fenton (N.Y.) in regard to filling troop quotas for state.
President confers with Lt. Henry A. Wise (USN), Navy Bureau of Ordnance, regarding mortars under construction at Pittsburgh.
Consults with Gen. Lane and Sen. Samuel C. Pomeroy (Kans.) regarding fugitive slaves and concludes that government cannot return them.
Attends opera at Washington Theatre, 11th and C St. NW., with Mrs. Lincoln for performance of "Il Trovatore."
1863:
President wishes secretary of war to arrange for Gen. Butler to start for New Orleans by February 1, 1863. "I think we can not longer dispense with Gen. Butler's service." Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton
1864:
Lincoln answers inquiry of Alpheus Lewis, cotton trader, regarding cases wherein owners of plantations might recognize freedom of slaves and hire them to cultivate land: "I should regard such cases with great favor, and should, as the principle, treat them precisely as I would treat the same number of free white people in the same relation and condition."
Issues permit to Christopher F. Clay and Christopher F. Field, son and brother-in-law respectively of Cong. Clay (Ky.), to put their plantations into cultivation under system of free hired labor and protection of military authority of U.S
Mrs. Lincoln's reception this afternoon was attended by an immense throng of citizens and sojourners." Washington Star, 23 January 1864.
1865:
President spends day reviewing courtmartial cases (45) and military arrests.
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