To Samuel F. Du Pont1Jump to section
Admiral Dupont Washington, April 13. 1863.
Hold your position inside the bar near Charleston; or if you shall have left it, return to it, and hold it till further orders. Do not allow the enemy to erect new batteries or defences, on Morris-Island. If he has begun it, drive him out. I do not, herein, order you to renew the general attack. That is to depend on your own discretion, or a further order. A LINCOLN
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[1] ALS, RPB. For Du Pont's report on the Charleston operation, see note to Lincoln's despatch to Welles, April 8, supra. On April 13, Halleck notified General David Hunter as follows: ``Dispatches have been sent to Admiral Du Pont to continue operations against Charleston. You will co-operate with your forces with Admiral Du Pont as you and he may deem best. It is the President's desire that these operations be continued.'' (OR, I, XIV, 440). See further Lincoln to Hunter and Du Pont, April 14, infra.