“Great complaints were made by both sides as to whose fault it was that there was a failure, but I told the navy I didn't want to hear anything about it; they did not get through, and didn't get the fort, and the less said about it the better.”

—  David Dixon Porter

Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 144

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