Information is received that Grant has beaten Pemberton
after a hard fight of nine hours. It is said to have taken place on the 15th
inst. Had an interview with Admiral Lardner, who goes out to take charge of the
West India Squadron. He is prudent, but, I fear, not so efficient as the duty
assigned him requires. Wilkes has accomplished but little, has interfered with
and defeated some Navy plans, but has not committed the indiscretions towards
neutrals which I feared he would, and of which he is charged.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 309
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