...ve a crew sent to him. I knew every one of the regular officers personally. They were all to the manner born. With the fate of the C. S. S. Rappahannock (which about a year before had gone into Calais, France , for some such object, had been held there inactive ever since) before me, and a positive conviction that our fate would be the same and result in ignominious failure, I strenuously advised against i...