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Welles informs Hamlin that he will, per the latter's request, have a ship owned by P.J. Cummings inspected "with a view to purchase." 
He continues, "Our recent success on the coast of North Carolina has given great animation to our people. I am more than ever satisfied, that if the Army will furnish ten thousand men to co-operate with the Navy, the s[indecipherable] will be more effective than could be rendered by an army of fifty thousand men at any p[indecipherable] in the interior."  Welles then mentions that he is just leaving for home, writing, "It will be the first time I have been five miles from the Capitol since I came here."