Communication is
again opened with the North. It is evident there was never any force sufficient
to have interrupted it, had there been ordinary ability and sagacity on the
part of the military. The Chronicle and the army papers are striving to
make it appear there was a large Rebel force and that there had been serious
danger, - that we have had a great deliverance.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon
Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864
— December 31, 1866, p. 77
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