Letter from (Union) Rear-Admiral Farragut, U. S. Navy, to Commander Alden, U. S. Navy reporting the destruction of the U. S. ship Morning Light (Page 2 of 2 pages). This is in Volume 19 of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.
(This report is continued from page 584) I deeply regret that our forces have met such a signal defeat at Vicksburg. Porter, I fear, will have to take some of the bad results, although he does not appear to have been on the spot, but attending to some work higher up the river. But they did get a good work up the Arkansas in the capture of the post [Arkansas Post].
I sent Roe home and told the Department he was broken down.
Yours truly,
D. G. Farragut
[Commander James Alden.]
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