I'd seen extracts from the document in question and thought I'd request it from the library. Effort not, it's available on the internet at :

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbcbbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(lhbcb+08753))

A record of events in Norfolk County, Virginia, from April 19th, 1861, to May 10th, 1862, with a history of the soldiers and sailors of Norfolk County, Norfolk City and Portsmouth, who served in the Confederate States army or navy. By John W. H. Porter.

Myriad mention of facts and persons, events and efforts.
It is not kind to Secretary Mallory.

Mr. Thomas Carr, a foreman of the Steam Engineering Department at the Gosport Navy Yard invented the system used by the Confederacy to rifle cannons.