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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 72 (search)
ing to the line of which Mr. Roberts was president, and therefore I believed it possible for me to obtain command of the vessel designated to take supplies and troops to that Fort. Upon visiting the office of the company, in West street, I found that Captain McGowan had been appointed to the command, and that the steamer was ready for sea. After this steamer, named the Star of the West, had returned from her voyage, having been turned back by the rebel batteries of Morris Island on the ninth of January, I called upon my friend, George W. Blunt, Esq., of New-York, and expressed to him my views as to the possibility of relieving the garrison, and the dishonor which would be justly merited by the Government, unless immediate measures were taken to fulfil this sacred duty. Mr. Blunt asked me to explain my plan to him, which I did, as follows: From the outer edge of the Charleston bar, in a straight line to Sumter, through the Swash Channel, the distance is four miles, with no shoal