Went this A.M. to Brady's rooms with Mr. Carpenter, an
artist, to have a photograph taken. Mr. C. is to paint an historical picture of
the President and Cabinet at the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.
I called to see Chase in regard to steamer Princeton, but he
was not at the Department. Thought best to write him, and also Stanton. These
schemes to trade with the Rebels bedevil both the Treasury and the Army
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 527
