April 30, 1862
John Hay, presidential assistant secretary who would later be secretary of state under President Theodore Roosevelt, returns to work at the White House after a visit to Illinois. President Lincoln seldom left the White House – except to visit the war front. Aides John Hay and John G. Nicolay became his eyes and ears when they made either business trips for Lincoln or took vacations – which Lincoln never did. Hay and Nicolay’s close relationship with their boss would later result in a multivolume biography of him.
Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War 
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