18 Feby 62.
My Dear Sir
Have not time to write unofficially, and I am much fatigued.
Coal—Coal—I am going with the ships unloaded. Lenthall made some mistake, so
with the ammunition —do hurry it on. I should be tied down now hard and fast
but for Sherman. A paper of the 12th in. Glowing news from Foote and
Goldsborough. It made my heart leap. If God is with us, you shall have all this
coast in three weeks, so far as we are concerned, what we do not hold inside
will be as tight as a bottle from outside. The thanks of the City of New York
to Ringgold made a roar to-day and a wag said, it was better to have been outside
than inside on the 7th Nov. Strange all the solid honors thus
far in this war have gone to two men who were never in harms way. Publish the
letter about the Infernal Machines. I suppose that kind of obstruction is all
right with the London Times—it does not keep the cotton in.
Yrs truly
S. F. DUPONT
Mr. Fox
Ass. Sec.
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. 107
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