(Cypher) WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., February 4, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL SCHENCK, Baltimore, Md.: I hear of some difficulty in the streets of Baltimore yesterday. What is the amount of it? A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, February 13, 1863. HON. SIMON CAMERON, Harrisburg, Pa.: General Clay is here and I suppose the matter we spoke of will have to be definitely settled now. Please answer. A. LINCOLN. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., February 19, 1863. WILLIAM H. HERNDON, Springfield, Ill.: Would you accept a job of about a month's duration at Saint Louis, $5 a day and mileage? Answer. (Cypher) A. LINCOLN. HON. J. K. DUBOIS, Springfield, Ill.: General Rosecrans respectedly urges the appointment of William P. Caslin as a brigadier-general. What say you now? A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, February 27, 1863. 'ALFRED RUSSELL, CHARLES DICKEY, Detroit, Mich. : The bill you mention in your dispatch of yesterday was approved and signed on the 24th of this month. MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER: A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, February 27, 1863. If it will be no detriment to the service I will be obliged for Capt. Henry A. Marchant, of Company I, Twenty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, to come here and remain four or five days. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5, 1868. MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER, Commanding Army of the Potomac: EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, March 9, 1863. GOVERNOR DAVID TOD, Columbus, Ohio: I think your advice with that of others would be valuable in the selection of provost-marshals for Ohio. MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER: A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, March 13, 1863. General Stahel wishes to be assigned to General Heintzelman and General Heintzelman also desires it. I would like to oblige both if it would not injure the service in your army, or incommode you. What say you? A. LINCOLN. HON. J. O. MORTON, Joliet, Ill.: EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, March 16, 1863. William Chumasero is proposed for provost-marshal of your district. What think you of it? I understand he is a good man. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, March 17, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Murfreesborough, Tenn.: Your telegram of yesterday just received. I write you more fully than I could communicate by the wires. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, March 25, 1863. MR. BENJAMT GRATZ, Lexington, Ky.: Show this to whom it may concern as your authority for allowing Mrs. Shelby to remain at your house, so long as you choose to be responsible for what she may do. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, March 25, 1866. MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Murfreesborough, Tenn.: Your dispatches about General Davis and General Mitchell are received. General Davis' case is not particular, being simply one of a great many recommended and not nominated, because they would transcend the number allowed by law. General Mitchell nominated and rejected by the Senate and I do not think it proper for me to re-nominate him without a change of circumstances such as the performance of additional service, or an expressed change of purpose on the part of at least some Senators who opposed him. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, April 3, 1863. GOVERNOR A. G. CURTIN, Harrisburg, Pa.: JOHN G. NICOLAY. Our plan is to pass Saturday night on the boat, go over from Acquia Creek to your camp Sunday morning, remain with you till Tuesday morning and then return. Our party will probably not exceed six persons of all sorts. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, April 11, 1863. Officer in Command at Nashville, Tenn.: Is there a soldier by the name of John R. Minnick of Wynkoop's cavalry under sentence of death, by a court martial or military commission, in Nashville? And if so what was his offense, and when is he to be executed? A. LINCOLN. If necessary let the execution be staid till I can be heard from again. A. LINCOLN. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITY, April 23, 1863. HON. SIMON CAMERON, Harrisburg, Pa.: Telegraph me the name of your candidate for West Point. A. LINCOLN. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITY, April 23, 1863. HON. S. P. CHASE, Philadelphia, Pa.: Telegraph me the name of your candidate for West Point. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, April 29, 1863. HON. W. A. NEWELL, Allentown, N. J.: I have some trouble about provost-marshal in your first district. Please procure Hon. Mr. Starr to come with you and see me, or come to an agreement with him and telegraph me the result. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, May 4, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE, Cincinnati, Ohio: Our friend General Sigel claims that you owe him a letter. If you so remember please write him at once. He is here. HON. O. M. HATCH, Springfield, Ill.: A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, May 5, 1863. Your dispatch of March 9th recommending provost-marshals, reads 9th District Benj. F. Weist, Pittsfield, Ill. Should it not be Benj. F. Westlake? Answer. MAJOR-GENERAL DIX: JNO. G. NICOLAY. Do the Richmond papers have anything about Grand Gulf or Vicksburg? A. LINCOLN. (Cypher) MAJOR-GENERAL BUTTERFIELD: WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITY, May 11, 1863. About what distance is it from the observatory we stopped at last Thursday, to the line of enemies works you ranged the glass upon for me? A. LINCOLN. GOVERNOR SEYMOUR, Albany, N. Y.: EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, May 12, 1863. Dr. Swinburne and Mr. Gillett are here having been refused, as they say, by the War Department, permission to go to the Army of the Potomac. They now appeal to me saying you wish them to go. I suppose they have been excluded by a rule which experience has induced the department to deem proper, still they shall have leave to go, if you say you desire it. Please answer. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, May 13, 1863. DR. A. G. HENRY, Metropolitan Hotel, New York: Governor Chase's feelings were hurt by my action in his absence. Smith is removed, but Governor Chase wishes to name his successor, and asks a day or two to make the designation. A. LINCOLN. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITY, May 16, 1863. HON. JAMES GUTHRIE, Louisville, Ky.: Your dispatch of to-day is received. I personally know nothing of Colonel Churchill, but months ago and more than once he has been represented to me as exerting a mischievous influence at Saint Louis, for which reason I am unwilling to force his continuance there against the judgment of our friends on the ground, but if it will oblige you, he may come to, and remain at Louisville upon taking the oath of allegiance, and your pledge for his good behavior. A. LINCOLN. Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITY, May 16, 1863. HON. SECRETARY OF WAR. MY DEAR SIR: The commander of the Department at St. Louis has ordered several persons south of our military lines, which order |