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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 10: naval engagement at South-West pass.--the Gulf blockading squadron in November, 1861. (search)
esident until April the 4th, and it was not until the morning of April 6th that a telegraphic dispatch was received by Captain Foote (commanding New York Navy Yard) as follows: Prepare the Powhatan for sea with all dispatch. (signed) Gideon Welles. On April 1st President Lincoln wrote an order to put the Powhatan in commission. On April 2d the work commenced on her. On April 5th she went into commission, and on April 6th sailed for the relief of Fort Pickens, under the command of Lieut D. D. Porter. On the day (April 6th) when a telegram came for Mr. Welles to prepare the Powhatan for sea with all dispatch, that vessel was about to sail on another mission. On the 7th, came orders for Captain Mercer to take command of the expedition to Charleston. Supposing that the Powhatan had been taken in hand from her sheer-hulk condition on the 6th, and working on the best time, she could not have more than been ready by the 11th. She could only at the best make eight knots an hour.