[Stono] River, S. C,
April 10.
I have written some particulars of my interview with Admiral
DuPont which I thought the President should know. Please give it to him,
reading it yourself if you care to. I went up into the harbor yesterday. The
gray-coated rascals were on both sides, waiting for another attack. A crowd of
them were crawling cautiously over the bluff to look at the wreck of the Keokuk
which has sunk near the shore. They are very busy throwing up new batteries on
Morris Island, and did not fire on us though we were in easy range. While I was
gone they published the order making me Voln. A. D. C.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 74-5; Michael Burlingame,
Editor, At Lincoln’s Side: John Hay’s Civil War Correspondence and
Selected Writings, p. 34 where the entire letter appears.
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