Confidential.
Wabash 1—Dec 61
Port Royal .
My Dear Sir
There is much disappointment here & even depression felt
that the Dep'mt should not have published my detailed account of the engagement
of the 7th we have papers to the 27th & it does not appear.
This feeling is increased by the fact, that the reporters
have thrown individuals prominently forward in their usual extravagant way —
getting the names of two or three officers & two or three ships, &
repeating them to give the appearance of authority. I am afraid you may be
keeping it to go with the documents in which case they think it will be buried,
until all interest is lost.
I thought I would drop you a line to this effect & get
you to repair the omission as soon & as effectually as possible — you
had better get all the reports of the Comdg officers published at the same
time.
The report went on the Atlantic two weeks ago.
Yrs faithfully
S. F. Dupont
Hon G. V. Fox
Ass/ Secty
SOURCE: Robert Means Thompson & Richard Wainwright,
Editors, Publications of the Naval Historical Society, Volume 9: Confidential
Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1865,
Volume 1, p. 75
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