Washington, March 15, 1862.
I beg you to receive my thanks for your kind remembrance of
me as shown by the valuable rifle sent me by Captain Davis. The gun of itself
is valuable, but the fact that it comes from you renders it doubly so. You may
be assured that your services on the South Atlantic coast are fully appreciated
by the country.
I send you the Globe newspaper, containing some
remarks of mine in the Senate on the operations of the Western flotilla under
Captain Foote. There was to my mind a manifest intention on the part of the
military commanders to do Captain Foote injustice; and, although I have no
acquaintance with him, I was resolved to see “the record made right,” as not
only an act of justice to him, but also to the service. I flatter myself that
the sentiment here is now with Foote; I know that it is wholly so in the
Senate. He intended to attack the rebel forts at New Madrid, on the Mississippi
River, to-day.
SOURCE: William Salter, The Life of James W. Grimes,
p. 182-3
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