At the Cabinet-meeting the President expressed uneasiness at
the rumor which he had just heard that the Queen of the West was captured. Told
him what I heard yesterday from General Halleck. Stanton said he wholly
discredited the story, but went and got the dispatches. On reading them, my
apprehensions were increased. The President called on me later in the day, and
we both came to the conclusion that the boat was lost to us.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 240
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