...ve off the fleet. The attack to which you thus refer occurred in the early part of 1862, before the system of electrical torpedo defences had been perfected by me. The contemplated attack on Drewry's Bluff to which I referred in my first letter to you, and concerning which I quoted from the letter of the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Mallory, occurred in 1864, as clearly shown in my letter and in Mr. Mall...