54/73 24.] [Footnote 544: Thompson and Wainwright, _Confidential Correspondence of G.V.Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy_, 1861-65, I, p.79.Du Pont to Fox, Dec. Hereafter cited as _Fox, Confid.Corresp_. This letter shows clearly also that the Navy had no thought of a _permanent_ obstruction.] [Footnote 545: _Vide_ Arnold, _Friendship's Garland_.] [Footnote 546: Thouvenel, _Le Secret de l'Empereur_, II, 249. |