White House, Washington, DC

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Place Unit Type

Location or Site

Containing Unit

Events

Date		Type
02/23/1861	Abraham Lincoln secretly heads directly to Washington arriving in the early morning hours	Campaigns/Elections
02/23/1867	At the White House, President Johnson meets with a delegation representing Sioux tribes.	Lawmaking/Litigating
05/15/1863	Court martial convicts General Joseph Revere, grandson of the patriot, for his retreat at Chancellorsville	Lawmaking/Litigating
10/09/1865	Diplomats from Tunisia on their way to Washington D.C. visit New York City	US/the World
05/17/1860	First Japanese Embassy to the United States received officially at the White House	US/the World
04/29/1865	For Christian religious reasons, President Johnson adjusts the day of mourning for Abraham Lincoln to June 1, 1865	Lawmaking/Litigating
10/31/1864	From the White House in Washington, President Lincoln proclaims Nevada as the Union's 36th state	Lawmaking/Litigating
01/11/1866	Harriet Lane, former President Buchanan's "First Lady," marries Baltimore banker Henry Elliot Johnson	Personal
07/08/1864	In a proclamation, President Lincoln explains why he refuses to sign the Wade-Davis Bill on Reconstruction	Lawmaking/Litigating
01/28/1867	In Washington D.C., President Johnson vetoes the Colorado Statehood Bill	Lawmaking/Litigating
11/09/1865	In Washington D.C., the National Police head Lafayette Baker is indicted for false imprisonment and extortion	Crime/Disasters
01/24/1866	In Washington D.C., the trial of former National Police head Lafayette Baker for false imprisonment begins	Crime/Disasters
07/29/1865	In Washington, D.C., heavy rainfall damages the White House	Crime/Disasters
02/07/1866	In Washington, Frederick Douglass leads a delegation of African-American leaders to the White House	Campaigns/Elections
11/11/1865	In Washington, Mary E. Walker is awarded the Medal of Honor for her services as a Union wartime nurse	Women/Families
07/05/1865	In Washington, President Andrew Johnson approves the sentences passed down to the Lincoln conspirators	Crime/Disasters
05/01/1865	In Washington, President Johnson orders a military trial for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters	Crime/Disasters
05/15/1862	In Washington, President Lincoln signs a bill to establish a separate Department of Agriculture	Lawmaking/Litigating
07/08/1865	In Washington, Virginia businessmen meet with President Johnson asking for changes in the amnesty regulations	Lawmaking/Litigating
05/19/1862	Maryland slaveholders meet President Lincoln to complain about non-enforcement of Fugitive Slave Act	Lawmaking/Litigating
04/06/1866	Mexican Ambassador Matias Romero meets with President Johnson seeking assistance for Mexico	US/the World
01/04/1861	National day of "fasting, humiliation, and prayer" takes place throughout the United States	Education/Culture
07/09/1860	Outside the White House, thousands of Democrats hear President Buchanan speak in favor of Breckinridge	Campaigns/Elections
12/02/1857	President Buchanan and Senator Douglas discuss the Lecompton Constitution at the White House	Lawmaking/Litigating
12/14/1860	President Buchanan designates January 4, 1861 as a national day of fasting and prayer	Lawmaking/Litigating
12/18/1860	President Buchanan sends Caleb Cushing to ask South Carolina to postpone its Secession Convention	Lawmaking/Litigating
06/16/1865	President Johnson appoints Andrew Jackson Hamilton as provisional governor of Texas	Lawmaking/Litigating
07/01/1865	President Johnson appoints Benjamin Franklin Perry as provisional governor of South Carolina	Lawmaking/Litigating
06/21/1865	President Johnson appoints Lewis E. Parsons, Sr. as provisional governor of Alabama	Lawmaking/Litigating
06/13/1865	President Johnson appoints long-time judge William L. Sharkey as provisional governor of Mississippi	Lawmaking/Litigating
03/11/1867	President Johnson appoints the commanders of the five new military reconstruction districts.	Lawmaking/Litigating
03/09/1866	President Johnson asks the Louisiana legislature to postpone its call for a new constitution.	Campaigns/Elections
12/01/1865	President Johnson lifts the suspension of Habeas Corpus in all loyal states but retains it in the South	Lawmaking/Litigating
07/13/1865	President Johnson names former federal judge William Marvin as provisional governor of Florida	Lawmaking/Litigating
08/17/1866	President Johnson proclaims the U.S. will not honor Imperial Mexico's blockade of rebel Matamoras.	US/the World
04/24/1865	President Johnson sets May 25th as a day of "special humiliation and prayer" for Abraham Lincoln	Lawmaking/Litigating
03/27/1866	President Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Bill of 1866	Lawmaking/Litigating
04/15/1861	President Lincoln calls for 75,000 troops to suppress the Rebellion and enforce United States law	Lawmaking/Litigating
05/15/1863	President Lincoln commutes the death sentence of an Indiana private soldier caught sleeping on guard	Lawmaking/Litigating
11/19/1863	President Lincoln departs Gettysburg for Washington after a brief service at the Presbyterian church	Education/Culture
09/11/1861	President Lincoln orders General John C. Fremont to modify his emancipation mandate in Missouri	Lawmaking/Litigating
02/26/1862	President Lincoln signs the Loan and Treasury Act, creating a national paper currency	Lawmaking/Litigating
03/06/1862	President Lincoln suggests to Congress ways gradually to end slavery in the United States	Lawmaking/Litigating
05/14/1862	President Lincoln visits General McClellan's headquarters at Fredericksburg, Virginia	Battles/Soldiers
04/15/1865	President Lincoln's body taken from Petersen's Boarding house to the White House two hours after death	Crime/Disasters
10/06/1860 - 10/07/1860	Prince Albert makes a brief visit to Richmond, Virginia	US/the World
07/30/1866	Queen Victoria and President Buchanan exchange telegraph messages over the new Atlantic Cable.	Science/Technology
04/16/1862	Slavery is abolished in the District of Columbia	Slavery/Abolition
04/14/1861	Stephen Douglas meets with Lincoln at the White House and pledges his support	Campaigns/Elections
04/20/1865	The body of slain President Lincoln is laying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda	Personal
04/19/1865	The funeral service for President Lincoln takes place in the White House East Room at noon	Personal
06/03/1863	The Illinois State Legislature strongly protests the military shutdown of the Chicago Times	Lawmaking/Litigating
10/04/1860	The Prince of Wales is in Washington, DC, hosted at the White House	US/the World
10/08/1860	The Prince of Wales spends twenty-four hours in Baltimore	US/the World
10/05/1860	The Prince of Wales visits the tomb of George Washington at Mount Vernon	US/the World
07/09/1850	Vice-President Millard Fillmore takes the oath of office after President Zachary Taylor dies at the White House	Legal/Political
11/30/1865	Volunteer Generals Butler and Dix end their Civil War military service	Battles/Soldiers
08/12/1861	With a presidential proclamation, Abraham Lincoln calls for a day of "humiliation, prayer, and fasting"	Religion/Philosophy

People

Residents in 1860

Buchanan, James

James Buchanan, circa 1860, Brady image, portrait size, detail

Johnston, Harriet Lane

Documents

Date	Title
01/01/1841	Abraham Lincoln to Andrew McCormick, January 1, 1841
06/16/1858	Boston (MA) Herald, “Illness of President Buchanan,” June 16, 1858
08/20/1858	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Signs of Fright,” August 20, 1858
01/23/1859	New York Herald, “Forney on a Short Allowance,” January 23, 1859
04/28/1859	New York Times, “The President and His Visitors,” April 28, 1859
05/11/1859	New York Times, “When Did He Die?,” May 11, 1859
05/28/1859	(Concord) New Hampshire Statesman, “Expenses of the White House,” May 28, 1859
06/29/1859	New York Times, “Albany and Richmond,” June 29, 1859
09/09/1859	New York Times, “The Telegraph and the Presidency,” September 9, 1859
04/20/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Mr. Buchanan’s Letter,” April 20, 1860
05/09/1860	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “The Coming Conventions,” May 9, 1860
05/23/1860	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Lincoln as He Is,” May 23, 1860
06/12/1860	New York Herald, “Commencement of Republican Cabinet Making,” June 12, 1860
10/21/1860	New York Herald, “American Sensations During 1860,” October 21, 1860
11/18/1860	New York Herald, “Douglas on Lincoln,” November 18, 1860
11/28/1860	New York Herald, “The Meeting of Congress,” November 28, 1860
04/01/1861	Abraham Lincoln to William Seward, April 1, 1861
04/15/1861	Abraham Lincoln, Presidential Proclamation, April 15, 1861, Washington , DC
04/19/1861	Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of a Blockade of the South, April 19, 1861
07/04/1861	Abraham Lincoln, Message to the Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861
08/13/1861	Savannah (GA) News, “Abe Lincoln Assassinated!,” August 13, 1861
09/02/1861	Abraham Lincoln to John Frémont, September 2, 1861
11/07/1861	Abraham Lincoln to Lorenzo Thomas, November 7, 1861
12/03/1861	Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861
12/05/1861	Memorandum by Alexander T. Galt, Canadian diplomat, describing interview with Abraham Lincoln, December 5, 1861
12/14/1861	Abraham Lincoln to Arnold Fischel, December 14, 1861
12/31/1861	Abraham Lincoln to David Hunter, December 31, 1861
01/13/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Don Carlos Buell, January 13, 1862
01/27/1862	Abraham Lincoln, General War Order No. 1, January 27, 1862
02/03/1862	Abraham Lincoln to the King of Siam, February 3, 1862
04/09/1862	Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan, April 9, 1862
04/10/1862	President Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation to the Nation
04/16/1862	President Abraham Lincoln, Signing statement for the Bill to Abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia
05/19/1862	Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation Revoking General Hunter's May 9, 1862 Order of Military Emancipation, May 19, 1862
07/22/1862	Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation---First Draft, Washington, DC, July 22, 1862
07/26/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Reverdy Johnson, Washington, DC, July 26, 1862
07/28/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Cuthbert Bullitt, July 28, 1862
08/04/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Agenor-Etienne de Gasparin, August 4, 1862
08/09/1862	New York National Anti-Slavery Standard, "Speech of Rev. M.D. Conway," August 9, 1862
08/14/1862	Abraham Lincoln, Remarks on Colonization to African-American Leaders, August 14, 1862
08/22/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
08/22/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, Washington, DC, August 22, 1862
09/02/1862	Abraham Lincoln, Mediation on the Divine Will, circa September 2, 1862
09/22/1862	Abraham Lincoln, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862
09/28/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Hannibal Hamlin, September 28, 1862
10/13/1862	Abraham Lincoln to George Brinton McClellan, October 13, 1862
11/02/1862	Mary Todd Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln, November 2, 1862
11/10/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Carl Schurz, November 10, 1862
11/21/1862	Abraham Lincoln to George Foster Shepley, November 21, 1862
12/01/1862	Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862
12/06/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Henry H. Sibley, December 6, 1862
12/23/1862	Abraham Lincoln to Fanny McCullough, December 23, 1862
01/01/1863	Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, Washington, DC, January 1, 1863
01/14/1863	Abraham Lincoln to John Dix, January 14, 1863
01/19/1863	Abraham Lincoln to the Workingmen of Manchester, England, January 19, 1863
01/26/1863	Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker, Washington, DC, January 26, 1863
03/27/1863	Abraham Lincoln, Speech to Indians, March 27, 1863
04/17/1863	Joseph Hooker to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, April 17, 1863
05/26/1863	Abraham Lincoln to Isaac Newton Arnold, May 26, 1863
06/10/1863	Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker, June 10, 1863
06/10/1863	Abraham Lincoln, Telegram to Joseph Hooker, June 10, 1863
06/16/1863	Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, June 16, 1863
07/07/1863	Abraham Lincoln, Response to a Serenade, July 7, 1863
07/14/1863	Abraham Lincoln to George Gordon Meade, July 14, 1863
08/05/1863	Abraham Lincoln to Nathaniel Prentice Banks, August 5, 1863
08/07/1863	Abraham Lincoln to Horatio Seymour, August 7, 1863
08/17/1863	Abraham Lincoln to James Henry Hackett, August 17, 1863
09/02/1863	Abraham Lincoln to Salmon Portland Chase, September 2, 1863
09/11/1863	Abraham Lincoln to Andrew Johnson, September 11, 1863
09/21/1863	Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, September 21, 1863
10/03/1863	Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of Thanksgiving, October 3, 1863
11/02/1863	Abraham Lincoln to James Henry Hackett, November 2, 1863
11/19/1863	Gettysburg Address (Bliss Copy), November 19, 1863
11/20/1863	Edward Everett to Abraham Lincoln, November 20, 1863
12/08/1863	Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, December 8, 1863
12/08/1863	Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1863
12/09/1863	George F. Shepley to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, December 09, 1862
02/04/1864	Abraham Lincoln to Edward Everett, February 4, 1864
03/13/1864	Abraham Lincoln to Michael Hahn, March 13, 1864
04/03/1864	Recollection by Orville Hickman Browning, April 3, 1864, Washington, D.C.
04/22/1864	Albert G. Hodges to Abraham Lincoln, April 22, 1864, Frankfort, Kentucky
04/28/1864	John M. Mackenzie to Abraham Lincoln, April 28, 1864, Paducah, Kentucky
06/09/1864	Abraham Lincoln, Reply to Delegation from the National Union League, June 9, 1864
08/08/1864	The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864
08/22/1864	Abraham Lincoln, Speech to the 166th Ohio Regiment, Washington, D.C., August 22, 1864
08/23/1864	Abraham Lincoln, Blind memorandum, Washington, DC, August 23, 1864
08/24/1864	Abraham Lincoln to Henry Jarvis Raymond, August 24, 1864, Washington, DC
11/10/1864	Abraham Lincoln, Response to a Serenade, November 10, 1864
11/11/1864	Diary Entry by John Hay, November 11, 1864, Washington, D.C.
11/21/1864	Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, November 21, 1864
12/06/1864	Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1864
12/26/1864	Abraham Lincoln to William T. Sherman, December 26, 1864
01/19/1865	Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, Washington, DC, January 19, 1865
03/04/1865	Recollection by Frederick Douglass, Inauguration of President Lincoln, March 4,1865, Washington, D.C.
03/15/1865	Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.
03/15/1865	Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865
04/13/1865	"The President's Speech - The Question of Reconstruction," New York Times, April 13, 1865
04/24/1865	John Curtiss Underwood, Statement on behalf of Southern Refugees to President Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C.
04/29/1865	Andrew Johnson, Proclamation, Removal of Trade Restrictions in Occupied Southern States, Washington, D.C.
05/02/1865	Andrew Johnson, Proclamation, Reward for the Conspirators, Washington, D.C.
05/29/1865	Andrew Johnson, Amnesty Proclamation, Washington D.C., May 29, 1865
05/29/1865	Andrew Johnson, Proclamation of Reconstruction of North Carolina, Washington, D.C.
06/21/1865	Andrew Johnson, "Proclamation naming Lewis E. Parsons, Jr. provisional governor of Alabama," June 21, 1865, Washington, D.C.
07/03/1865	Andrew Johnson to David Wills, July 3, 1865
10/28/1865	Andrew Johnson to James Johnson, October 28, 1865, Washington, D.C.
10/30/1865	Georgia State Convention, "Plea for the release and pardon of Jefferson Davis..." Milledgeville, Georgia, October 30, 1865
11/11/1865	Lafayette Curry Baker to Andrew Johnson, November 11, 1865, Washington, D.C.
12/18/1865	Andrew Johnson, "Message to Congress respecting the condition of affairs in the Southern States," December 18, 1865
02/07/1866	Frederick Douglass, et al, to Andrew Johnson, February 7, 1866
02/07/1866	Transcript, Meeting between President Andrew Johnson and a Delegation of African-Americans, White House, February 7, 1866
02/08/1866	Benjamin Brown French to Andrew Johnson, February 8, 1866
02/08/1866	Joseph S. Ingraham to Andrew Johnson, Bangor, Maine, February 8, 1866
02/10/1866	Andrew Johnson, Speech to visiting delegation of the Virginia Legislature, the White House, Washington, D.C., February 10, 1866
02/14/1866	John H. Brinton to Andrew Johnson, West Chester, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1866
02/15/1866	Charles Jones Jenkins to Andrew Johnson, Milledgeville, Georgia, February 15, 1866
02/19/1866	Andrew Johnson, Freedmen's Bureau Bill veto message, February 19, 1866
02/20/1866	Jeremiah Sullivan Black to Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., February 20, 1866
02/22/1866	Andrew Johnson, Speech before Washington's Birthday Meeting, Washington, D.C., February 22, 1866
03/02/1866	"Mrs. Swisshelm Guillotined," Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1866
03/27/1866	Andrew Johnson, Civil Rights Bill Veto Message, March 27, 1866
03/28/1866	"President Johnson and His Enemies," Daily Union and American (Nashville, TN), March 28, 1866
04/02/1866	Andrew Johnson, Proclamation announcing that the Rebellion has ended, April 2, 1866
04/21/1866	Edmund Cooper to Governor Jonathan Worth, Washington DC, April 21, 1866
08/04/1866	Andrew Johnson to Philip H. Sheridan, Washington, DC, August 4, 1866.
08/06/1866	Philip H. Sheridan to Andrew Johnson, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 6, 1866.
08/20/1866	Andrew Johnson, Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End in Texas, and Civil Authority existing throughout the whole of the United States, August 20, 1866, Washington, D.C.

Images

The White House, Washington, D.C., circa 1846

White House, North Front, Washington DC, June 7, 1859

East Room, White House, Washington, D.C., circa 1860s

President Andrew Johnson's Office, the White House, Washington, D.C., artist's impression

Female Lobbyists at the White House, Washington, DC, October 1866, artist's impression.

Female Lobbyists at the White House, Washington, DC, October 1866, artist's impression, detail.

Bibliography

Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Ladies of the White House

Freedom and Ballgowns: Elizabeth Keckley and the Work of Domesticity

Mary Todd Lincoln: Civil War First Lady

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