Private
Dec. 21. Port Royal Str
Wabash.
My Dear Sir
I have applied for an ordnance Lieut. Will you do me the
favor to order Lt. A. S. Mackenzie late of the Hartford — You saw his mother in
New York.
He had better call on the Bureau and get posted up and then
on Dahlgren. I am worried a little about the Dept. for I want it right not only
in itself — but in our records and archives.
Squally news yesterday from England. Let 'em come.
W haste
S. F. Dupont.
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. 82
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