President confers with Sen. Harlan (Iowa) who asks that Col. Edward Hatch be nominated for brigadier general. Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 1 April 1864, CW, 7:279.

Cabinet meets. Welles, Diary.

[Irwin withdraws from Springfield Marine Bank $9 for semiannual payment of interest on scholarship at Illinois State University. Pratt, Personal Finances, 177.]

Lincoln thanks Rev. Frederick A. Farley, secretary of Brooklyn and Long Island Fair, who transmitted from "a few of your fellow-citizens" gift of silk bedspread formed of "National Colors." Abraham Lincoln to Frederick A. Farley, 1 April 1864, CW, 7:278.