Letter from Charles Steedman to David Dixon Porter, January 17, 1865
written by Charles Steedman, 1811-1890 (1865); edited by Amos Lawrence Mason; in Memoir and Correspondence of Charles Steedman, Rear Admiral, United States Navy, with His Autobiography and Private journals, 1811-1890 (Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1912), 254-255