Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, July 9, 1862

Private and Confidential

Wabash, 9, July, 62.         

Port Royal 

My Dr Sir

I thought you had better see these letters of Drayton's —you will perceive how unassured they are. After reading please tear them up.

My regard for the Comdg. Gen' is so high personally—that I will not permit myself to pass any judgment upon his acts. I believe the troops were not sorry to leave.

Yrs most truly 

S. F. DUPONT 

Hon. G. V. Fox,
        Ass-Sec.

[Enclosing copies of letters of June 30, July 2 and July 4 from P. Drayton to Admiral 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. 133