Wabash, Port Royal
Dec. 1, 6l.
My Dear Friend
If I were ten times as occupied, that kind, noble hearty
private letter of yours would command my attention and receive my grateful
thanks. Only a sailor man with many other attributes could have written
it — Davis & Rodgers enjoyed it with me & we were all gratified.
Davis & myself may truly say that when the deed of the 7th
Nov. had been accomplished, after our wives we first thought of you & Mr.
Welles — that your laborious work, yr long suffering patience & forbearance
in that Department would find some reward in that days proceedings.
The Vanderbilt has stolen a march on us & goes a day
sooner than I was told — so some things have to lay over,
Faithfully
yr friend
S. F. DuPONT
Hon
G.
V. Fox
Ass Sec Navy.
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. 75-6
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