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1 Fox, Gustavus Vasa. Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Gustavus Vasa. Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1865. 2 vols. New York: De Vinne Press, 1920. Volume I Montgomery Blair, endorsed Fox to Winfield Scott, reinforcing Fort Sumter, blustering southerners, must enforce laws to keep Union together, 3-5 Fort Sumter, Buchanan, 6 Fox presents proposition to Winfield Scott, relief of Sumter 7-9 Lincoln wants him to take dispatches to Major Anderson at Sumter, 9-10 Scott orders Fox to Charleston, 10 Montgomery Blair, Lincoln, office seekers, 11 Possible abandonment of Sumter and defense of Pickens, Major Anderson, 12-13 Plan to carry desiccated vegetables, ships, waiting on War Department orders, Seward, 13-14 Lincoln orders Brooklyn to sea, 15 Protecting forts Pickens, Jefferson, and Taylor, 15 Montgomery Blair, Lincoln and orders, 16-18 Powhatan, 16-17 Fox to Governor Pickens about delivering supplies to Major Anderson, delay and indecision, Simon Cameron, 18-21 Winfield Scott, Fox in command of expedition to reenforce Sumter, 21-22 Executing orders from both army and navy, Gideon Welles, 22 Harriet Lane, Welles, Charleston, also the Powhatan, Pawnee, and Pocahontas, provision Sumter, 23-26 Fox fears it is too late to provision Sumter, 26-27 Orders for the various relief ships, Commodore Foote, 27-31 Fox to Montgomery Blair describing the resupply expedition and surrender of Sumter, 31-36 Blair tells Fox he can have a command in the war, has little faith in serving officers, tells of having Seward and Welles read Fox’s account, Lincoln rather preoccupied, 37-38 Results of Fox’s plan for reinforcing Sumter, 38-41 Fortress Monroe, Washington, 41-42 Powhatan, Fort Pickens expedition, Seward, 42-43 Lincoln to Fox on Sumter expedition, 43-45 Appointed chief clerk of the Navy Department, 45-46 Samuel F. DuPont, South Atlantic Blockade and Charleston expedition, 49ff Samuel F. DuPont, government salaries, 49-50 Personnel, 51, 55-57 Preparations for sailing, 52-53 Retiring board and younger officers, 54 Hilton Head, Charleston, Savannah, Hampton Roads, 58-60 Weather, organization of crews, 60-61 Panic on ship about the enemy, 62 Coal vessels, 63 Wabash has sailed, 64-65 Port Royal, 65ff Beaufort, 68 Worthless sailing ships, 68 1 Planters burning cotton, 69 Army plundering, robbing the blacks, Thomas W. Sherman, 70 Tensions with army, Thomas W. Sherman, 72 Wants his account of capture of Port Royal published in newspapers, 75 St. Helena, 76-77 Suggestions on need for more ships, Georgia coast, 77 Stone fleet, 77-78 Thomas W. Sherman, Fernandina, 79 Plans to close Charleston, 79 Condition of various ships, 80 Thomas W. Sherman and his soldiers, 81 Savannah, 82-83 Assessment of officers and ship, 84 Prisoners, intelligence, Fort Pulaski, 85 Tattnall, 85 Port Royal, 86-87 Great praise for Raymond Rogers, 87-88 Near for more gunboats, 88 Slaves and Savannah, 89 Quincy Gillmore, Hilton Head, slave intelligence, Tybee, Fort Pulaski, shell and powder, 90-93 Slave intelligence John Rogers, Confederate batteries, Fort Pulaski, 94-98 Publication of official reports, Welles, 99-100 Florida expedition, ships, 100-1 Ill Lt. commander, 102 Details on operations around Port Royal, 103-7 Coal, 107 Ammunition, Confederate concentration around Savannah, 108-9 McClellan and Thomas W. Sherman, Savannah, Fort Pulaski, 109-111 St. Johns, Florida, four slaves, 111-12 National Intelligencer and Associated press, 113 Blockade, 113 Coal deficiency, 114 Blockade running, calls for removing Welles, Lincoln, 115 David Hunter, forces too spread out, fears of losing Hunter political, 115-16 Stupid volunteers captured on Wilmington Island, 117 Sinking of the America, 118 Calls for publishing report about Pulaski and Rogers, 119 Fox, add to force at Charleston, 119-20 Operations on Stono River, 120, 122 Charleston defenses, 120-21 Catching blockade runners, 121 Charleston, 122-23 Complains about detaching an officer from a ship, 124-25 Protests the taking of a ship, 125-26 Fox, Charleston, New Orleans, Goldsborough, Mobile, Monitor, Foote, 126-28 Fox, limits on sending gunboats until Richmond is taken, 128-29 2 Complains of reports in Charleston newspaper, information to the Confederates, 129-30 Good effect of publishing reports of commanding officers, 129-30 Objects to sending a ship north, 131-32 Army evacuation of James Island, Charleston, 133-38 Englishman escaped Charleston to avoid conscription, consul Bunch as a secessionist, 139-40 Officers, 140-41 Fox, congressional legislation on the Navy, Senator Grimes, 142 Limited numbers of boats sent to DuPont, many gunboats on James River at Seven Days, 142 Fox, concerned about ironclads at Charleston and Savannah, men and ships, 143-44 DuPont, rams and ironclads, Charleston, ships, officers, 145-49 Officers, illness, vacancies, complains about gunboats going north, Confederate deserters, ranks, 149-54 Fox, dark days, John Pope, Second Bull Run, James River flotilla, officer appointments, 154-55 Florida, St. Johns River, governor of Florida threat to hang men on gunboats as kidnappers, 155 DuPont called back north, 156-57 Dahlgren, 158 DuPont, near Wilmington, Delaware, and plans to be in Washington, 158-59 Appeal made to DuPont to give up command to Dahlgren, Foote, 160-61 Democrats and elections in Delaware and Pennsylvania, 1862, 160-61 Charleston, steamer ran aground, 161 Expedition to Pocotaligo, failure, 162 What DuPont needs, tugs, guns, defenses of Charleston Harbor, 163 DuPont asks that General Mitchel not be replaced by Frémont, 164 Yellow Fever deaths, 164 Fox, David Hunter and 10,000 troops on their way, glad about captures, the Alabama, 165 Dupont, officers, vessels, fever, 166 Captures off Charleston, 167 Four slaves describe Charleston obstructions, 168 Fox, work on ironclads, outlines various military developments, 169 DuPont, ship discipline, engineers, withdrawal supply ships, complains of quality of officers, prize crews, 170-72 Fox, will deal with complaints, ships, 172-73 Mail taken, 174 Slaves, officers, 175 Fox, Rogers rode out a hurricane, 175-76 Torpedo rafts, 176-77 Ironclads, Mobile, Port Hudson, 177 Charleston situation, ironclads, Foster, Lincoln anxious for an attack, ship conditions, 178-79 Fox, General Foster, Lincoln, Stanton, Halleck, plan for attack on Charleston, ironclads, 179-80 Fox, work on monitors, Rogers to the Gulf and Farragut, 181 DuPont, no siege of Charleston, 183 Dangerous man who was released had plans for boarding monitors and spiking guns, arrested, 183 Fox, progress on ironclads, promises ships to DuPont, some setbacks for the navy, 184-85 DuPont, monitors, forts, General Foster, 185-86 3 Fox, General Foster, ironclads, possibility of giving up on Savannah and sending ships to the Gulf, 188 Fox, reports ship departures and anticipating great attack on Charleston, 189-90 Monitors, attack on Fort McAllister, guns, 190-91 Fox, denies keeping back ironclads, reports on steamers entering Charleston harbor, 191-93 Items leaving New York, torpedoes, distribution of ironclads after attack on Charleston, 193-94 DuPont, work on ironclads, looking for the ironclads, 194-95 Fox, arrival of ironclads, send all ironclads that survive assault on Charleston to New Orleans, 195-97 L.M. Goldsborough, expedition against Roanoke Island in the Sounds, November and December 1861, 201 Goldsborough, Minnesota, General Huger, prisoners, 201 Disaster for DuPont’s expedition, Charleston, 202-3 Gunboats, details on various vessels, Hatteras, 203-5 Confederate fortifications, Hatteras Inlet, vessels of various kinds, Roanoke Island, 207-10 Affair between Confederate Patrick Henry and Federal fleet, Confederate commander John Tucker, 210-13 Fort Pickens, Pensacola, Confederate victory, 213-16 Goldsborough ask for information on vessels for his expedition, Roanoke Island artillery, 216-18 Commanders for ships, officers, retiring officers, 218-20 Requisitions, delays, 221-22 Unionist, information on Confederate on Roanoke Island, intelligence leak, 222-24 Arrival of ships, 225 Burnside preparations, dispatching ships, preparations for Roanoke Island, General Wool, McClellan, 226-28 Hatteras inlet, problem with draft of ships, Burnside, complaints about the army, 231-33 Delayed by the army, Roanoke Island, 234-35 Successful attack on Roanoke Island, alarm among Confederates, 236-40 Expeditions, destroy bridges and railroads, Newbern, Burnside, 240-42 Prisoners captured, 242-43 Capture of Fort Donelson, 243-44 Proposed attack on Norfolk, Hatteras, Roanoke Island, McClellan, 245-48 Wilmington, 248-50 General Barnard, Merrimac, 251-52 Gunboats, escapes, 252-54 Loss of the Nashville, 255 Gloucester Point, McClellan, 256 McClellan, Yorktown batteries, 256-57 Court of inquiry about Nashville at Beaufort, 257-58 Hampton Roads, Yorktown, public impatience, McClellan, 259-61 Army on the Peninsula, Navy, 262 Galena, 262, 272 Vessels at Yorktown, 263-64 Merrimac, Monitor, 264-65ff Stampede off the Merrimac, 265 Shelling Sewall’s Point, 267 4 Wilmington, Fort Caswell, 269 Officers trying to get members of Congress to get promotions, 270-71 Goldsborough, Navy cannot make any progress against Richmond without the army, McClellan, 271-72 Wilmington, McClellan, Goldsborough waiting for more vessels to report, public expectations for the navy unrealistic, 273 Stanton claims destruction of Merrimac and capture of Norfolk, General Wool, 274-76 Fort Norfolk, 276-77 Wool’s cavalry captured by Confederates, 278 False report in New York Herald, about slaves being carried off to Cuba, 278-79 Wilmington, Fort Caswell,
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