I am more desponding than I care to acknowledge. The army
management distresses all of us, but we must not say so. It is no time for
fault-[finding]. Neither Stanton nor Halleck had any views on the subject, nor
a proposition or suggestion to make. I proposed a descent on Indianola. Halleck
did not know where it was. Would consent to nothing, nor to any consideration
of the subject, till he heard from Banks; would then immediately notify Seward
and myself. This was at least two months ago, and the last I have heard from
Major-General Halleck, until we are now told General Banks organized an
expedition to Texas. Heigho! the Sabine Pass?
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 442-3
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