Two or three committees are investigating naval matters, —
contracts, supplies, engineering, etc. Senator Hale labors hard to find fault
with the Department; is searching, as with a lantern, for errors and mistakes.
Has detectives, rotten and disappointed contractors, and grouty party men of
the Navy, as well as politicians of every kind of politics, to aid him, but has
thus far seemed to injure his friends as well as himself and not the
Department.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 528-9
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