Nov. 16, 1861: Two prominent U.S. officials in the Federal government–Postmaster General Montgomery Blair of Lincoln’s cabinet, and Sen. Charles Sumner (R-Mass.)–both officially protest Capt. Wilkes’s actions in stopping a British ship on the high seas in what is now being called the Trent Affair.
Mary Boykin Chestnut writes in her diary: "We fasted and we prayed—and we think our prayers are answered, for lo! good news has come. A another ship with ammunition and arms has slipped into Savannah. If our prayers are to be so effective, let us all spend our days and nights on our knees." She apparently means the CSS Fingal, a CSN blockade runner, which has run aground near Fort Pulaski at the mouth of the Savannah river, loaded with rifles and ammunition much needed by the Rebel troops in the vicinity.
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