Navy Yard, New York
6 P.M. Apr. 6/61
Sir:
By great exertions, highly commendable, Lieut. Roe
overhauled the Powhatan and I send Lieut. Comd'g Porter's reasons as assigned,
in the enclosed note, for proceeding with the ship.
I have the honor to be
Yr Obt. Servt,
A. H. Foote
Hon. Gideon Welles,
Sec'y of the Navy
Washington D.C.
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. 30
