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d vessels, to protect the navigable streams along the coast; Gen. Lovell adding, that the blame of want of protection will rest upon me in any event, and I should, therefore, have some power to say what should be done. No answer to this request was made. The Secretary of War, about this time, furnished Gen. Lovell with the plan and details of the river defence fleet, under Montgomery, for service in the upper Mississippi, which was to be prepared at New Orleans, by Capts. Montgomery and Townsend, and the General was directed merely to exercise such general supervision as to check any profligate expenditure. On the 13th January, Gen. Lovell wrote, that considering New Orleans to be in condition to resist an attack, I am turning my attention to the coast of Mississippi. The obstructions in the river at this time were complete, and the forts well manned. On the 8th of February, the Secretary of War wrote as follows: The President desires that, as soon as possible, on receipt o