Seward, apprehending
a storm, wants a steamer to take him to Cuba. Wishes to be absent a fortnight
or three weeks. Thinks he had better be away; that the war will be pretty
strong upon us for the first few weeks of the session and he had better show
the Members that we care nothing about them by clearing out.
A court martial of
high officers in the case of Craven, who declined to encounter the Stonewall,
has made itself ridiculous by an incongruous finding and award which I cannot
approve. It is not pleasant to encounter so large a number of officers of high
standing, but I must do my duty if they do not.
SOURCE: Gideon
Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and
Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 392-3
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