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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.52 (search)
ate account of all the important transactions of the war. Your letter indicates that you feel aggrieved because of General G. J. Rains being alone mentioned in connection with torpedoes. You infer that it will hereafter be supposed he was awarded tbring the use of this terrible instrument to a perfection. At a date long before this perfection had been attained General Rains is named incidentally with the order putting him in charge of submarine defences and the first rudely constructed tor artillerists and riflemen who disabled and drove off the fleet. It seems to me that the remark the secret of all his (Rains') future success consisted in the sensitive primer, is by no means a denial that success was obtained by other persons emccess of that system of torpedo defences, now adopted in its more developed form by the whole world, when your friend General Rains' beer barrel, demijohns and sensitive fuses have long passed into oblivion, you persist in being wholly oblivious.