Chase did not come to the Cabinet-meeting to-day. As usual,
two or three were absent. Usher has gone to the front, where there was a ball
and fancy demonstrations. He is fond of matters of that kind and of the little
flying gossip that is afloat.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 530
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