Rumors of a cavalry fight in Culpeper. The President and
Stanton have gone to Falmouth. Nothing definite from Vicksburg. Am not
favorably impressed with what I hear of the fight on the Rappahannock.
The accounts of piratical depredations disturb me. My views,
instructions, and arrangements to capture the Alabama, which would have
prevented these depredations, have failed through the misconduct of Wilkes. The
Rebel cruisers are now beginning to arm their prizes and find adventurers to
man them. Our neutral friends will be likely to find the police of the
seas in a bad way.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 326-7
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