Cabinet discusses general matters in short session. Bates, Diary.

Lincoln appoints W. H. Lamon marshal for District of Columbia. National Intelligencer, 12 April 1861.

Receives unofficially Virginia commissioners: former Congressman William B. Preston (Va.), Alexander H. H. Stuart, and George W. Randolph. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 13 April 1861, 2:2.

Confides in Sen. Charles Sumner (Mass.) that Fort Sumter, S.C., will not be surrendered. Pierce, Sumner Memoir and Letters, 4:41.