A telegram from Admiral Porter says the Tennessee is rising,
and he will send convoy for transports, etc. General Halleck is quite anxious.
When I questioned him about Meade, he said it was “the same old story we had
from all our Potomac generals.”
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 473
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