President spends most of day waiting for reports, sending and receiving messages. Returns to "River Queen" in evening and walks deck most of night. William H. Crook, "Lincoln's Last Day: New Facts Now Told for the First Time. Compiled and written down by Margarita S. Gerry," Harper's Monthly Magazine 115 (September 1907):519; Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, 1 April 1865, CW, 8:379; Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, 1 April 1865, CW, 8:379-80; Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward, 1 April 1865, CW, 8:380-81; Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 1 April 1865, CW, 8:381; Official Records—Armies 1, XLVI, pt. 3, 392-93.

Mrs. Lincoln and Secretary of State Seward return to Washington. Tad remains with father. LL, No. 1408; Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, 1 April 1865, CW, 8:381.