Friday April 12, 1861
Lincoln's Cabinet Meets
Lincoln met with his cabinet during the day. Talbot and Chew, having arrived back in Washington, reported to them about their mission to South Carolina. Talbot returned the sealed dispatch inten
ded for Major Anderson, which he had been unable to deliver.
Bibliography: OR, pp. 251-2; Bates, Diary of Edward
Bates, ed. Beale, p. 182.
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