The press and congressional critics are opening their
batteries on the Secretary of War, for incompetency. He is not to blame. A month
ago, Capt. Lee, son of the general, and a good engineer, was sent to the coast of
North Carolina to inspect the defenses. His report was well executed; and the
recommendations therein attended to with all possible expedition. It is now
asserted that the garrison was deficient in ammunition. This was not the case.
The position was simply not tenable under the fire of the U. S. ships of war.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 77
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