But little at the Cabinet. Chase is quite dejected, and
manifested some rather suppressed irritation towards Blair and Seward as he sat
beside me. Neither of them saw it; I was glad they did not.
Blair says Fitz John Porter is disliked by the army with the
exception of McClellan, but is his special confidant. The President seemed to
know this, but the disaffection as stated by Blair was more general than he
supposed.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 231
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