President and John Hay, assistant secretary to President, look down bay from roof of White House. Dennett, Hay Diaries and Letters, 6.

Cabinet again convenes in Navy Dept. to plan action of government. Randall, Lincoln, 1:364.

Lucius E. Chittenden, registrar of treasury, takes Dr. James Wynne, author and resident of New York, to White House for conference on conditions in New York. Lucius E. Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln and his Administration (New York: Harper, 1891), 118-19.

From late morning to early afternoon, President confers further with Mayor George W. Brown (Baltimore), General Winfield Scott, and cabinet on moving troops through Maryland. National Republican (Washington, DC), 23 April 1861, 2:4-5; Randall, Lincoln, 3:159.