ASTOR HOUSE [NEW YORK,
N. Y., April 5?,] 8 o’clock.
DEAR CAPTAIN: I am with Captain Meigs and we are
telegraphing to Mr. Seward. Meigs thinks Mr. Welles's telegram* is bogus. Would
he, think you, dare to countermand an order (written order) of the President?
Meigs and myself (knowing all the circumstances) think it impossible. I shall
stay over to-night to keep telegraphing. So much depends on having no mistakes
made in this matter. If you hear anything will you send me word? I will be at
the yard at
6 o'clock in the morning. Will you take care of my boy
to-night? And oblige me by sending the enclosed to Mr. Heap, on board the Powhatan
Yours, very truly,
D. D. PORTER.
[Commander A. H. Foote,
U. S. Navy,
Acting Commandant Navy Yard, New
York.]
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* See p. ___
SOURCE: Official
Records of Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Series
I, Volume 4, p. 111-2
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