Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, October 21, 1863

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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