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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 10: (search)
, even if you are obliged to use two kinds of shot and shell to do it with, than it is to be destroyed or captured by an armed fleet, notwithstanding the pleasure it might give the Ordnance Bureau to use but one kind of ammunition. The Governor illustrated these points at considerable length, and closed with this paragraph:— I hope you will not at all be discouraged by the ordnance officers. If they object, please go to the Secretary of War. At a time when Long Island Head and Deer Island Spit cannot have an earthwork nor a gun for the want of power by the United States to supply ordnance, it is a gross and miserable absurdity for our people at Washington to turn up their noses at guns, the production of which the English and Russian Governments have now completely monopolized, so that, after filling our antecedent contracts, we could get no more of them of foreign manufacture, if we would. The reader will have noticed, that, from the outbreak of the war, the Governor'