I am pressing on the matter of Wilkes. He and his family are
moving to extricate him from the results of his own insubordination and folly.
Fred Seward called on me by request of his father with a letter of Mrs. Wilkes
respecting the court martial. Told Fred the matter must go on, I had borne and
forborne with Wilkes until he presumed upon my kindness so far as to compel
action if discipline was to be observed in the service. Fred expressed a
conviction that I was right.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 530
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