...te the draft was merely incidental; they were to be filled with water at fighting draft and emptied, if necessary, to diminish it. Extracts from these three letters of Mr. Porter will be found in J. Thomas Scharf 's History of the Confederate States Navy, published in 1887, pp. 146-151. The last in order is the extract from a private letter, given above, which, Mr. Scharf says, was published in the Charles...