A strange dispatch
was read to-day from Commodore Winslow, written at Pensacola, exhibiting
intense partisan bitterness in the New Orleans disturbances, and reproving
Lieutenant-Commander McCann of the Tallapoosa, who was at New Orleans and
behaved very discreetly. I am almost induced to believe that Winslow is
demented.
Ordered a board for
examining volunteer officers, S. P. Lee, President. It will be less acceptable
to him than some other position more permanent here in Washington, but he
cannot always select the best places.
SOURCE: Gideon
Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and
Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 575
