Dispatches and also a private letter from Dahlgren speak of
the assault and repulse at Sumter. Neither is clear and explicit. I should
judge it had been a hasty and not very thoroughly matured movement.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 434
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