Told Mr. Hunter that
it would be best to turn over the Shenandoah to the Secretary of the Treasury
as abandoned property, and let Consul Dudley sell her in Liverpool. McCulloch
says he has no agent there, but Dudley can do the work. I do not wish to be
mixed up with the Anglo-Rebel affairs of this vessel.
SOURCE: Gideon
Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and
Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 417
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