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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Lieutenant Francis Asbury Roe to Commander Andrew H. Foote, Saturday, April 6, 1861 – 5 p.m.


Saturday 5 P.M.
Sir:

The despatch entrusted to me for Lieut. Porter has been delivered into his hands. The Powhatan was below Quarantine and underway for the “narrows,” when I reached her. Lieut. Porter desired me to express his regrets to you that the despatch came to his hands so late, and that it was too late to change his plans, inasmuch as the Atlantic had already gone to sea.

Respect.
Yr Obt Svt
F. A. Roe
Lt.
Capt. A. H. Foote
Comds Navy Yard
Brooklyn

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. 31