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The Daily Dispatch: November 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
n their official capacity, but merely as private gentlemen, yet it might be considered an improper act to sent the Brooklyn with reinforcements to Fort Sumter until I had received an answer from them to my letter of the preceding day; that the delay could not continue more than forty eight hours. He promptly concurred in this suggestion as gentlemanly and proper, and the orders were not transmitted to the Brooklyn on that evening.--My anticipations were correct, for, on the morning of the 2d of January, I received their insolent note, and sent it back to them. In the meantime, however, the General had become convinced, by the representation of a gentleman whom I forbear to name, that the batter plan, as the Secretaries of War and the Navy informed me, to secure secrecy and success, and reach the fort, would be to send a fast side-wheel mercantile steamer from New York with the reinforcement. Accordingly the "Star of the West" was selected for the duty. The substitution of this me