President returns to Washington in morning from Baltimore. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 19 April 1864, 2d ed., 2:4.

Recognizes Giovanni B. Cerruti as consul of Italy at San Francisco and Ferdinando de Luca as consul of Italy at New Orleans. Evening Star (Washington, DC), 21 April 1864, 2d ed., 1:6; Daily National Republican (Washington, DC), 21 April 1864, 2d ed., 3:2.

Does not attend cabinet meeting. Welles, Diary.

Rests preparatory to night reception at White House. Don C. Seitz, Lincoln the Politician: How the Rail-Splitter and Flatboatman Played the Great American Game (New York: Coward-McCann, 1931), 408.

Large crowd overruns White House at last reception of season. President gives "warm salutation and a pleasant word" to "official and social intimates." Washington Chronicle, 20 April 1864.