Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Diary of John Hay: June 21, 1864

To-day the President started down the river with Fox to have a talk with Gen. Grant and Admiral Lee. . . .

SOURCES: Abstracted from Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 208. See Michael Burlingame & John R. Turner Ettlinger, Editors, Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, p. 209-10 for the full diary entry.

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