Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the RebellionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1896 |
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Acting Master Acting Rear-Admiral Alabama anchor arrival August Bahia bark Bermuda boat Brazil brig C. S. S. Florida C. S. S. Shenandoah Cape Cape Haitien capture Cherbourg coal coast Commandant Navy Yard Commanding Pacific Squadron commanding U. S. S. Commodore Craven communication Confederate convoy crew cruise cruisers D. C. Report deck dispatch enclose engineer English Ferrol fired flag GIDEON Government guns Hampton Roads harbor Havana honor to report instant instructions Island Johnson's Island July June Latitude letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-Commander longitude Majesty's Government minister morning naval NAVY DEPARTMENT November obedient servant officers Pacific Squadron pirate port prisoners proceed ram Stonewall Rappahannock rebel Received at Washington regarding repairs Report of Acting Report of Commander respectfully sail schooner sent steam steamer Stonewall Tallahassee Telegram U. S. consul U. S. Navy U. S. S. Kearsarge U. S. S. Niagara ultimo United vessel West India Squadron York
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Страница 25 - I pray your lordship to accept the assurances of the highest consideration with which I have the honor to be, my lord, your most obedient servant, CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
Страница 267 - Florida was an unauthorized, unlawful, and indefensible exercise of the naval force of the United States within a foreign country, in defiance of its established and duly recognized Government.
Страница 622 - The ship filled so rapidly, however, that before we had made much progress the fires were extinguished in the furnaces, and we were evidently on the point of sinking.
Страница 738 - SIR : By direction of his excellency the governor, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, this morning, of your letter of yesterday's .date, stating the supplies required for the officers and crew of the vessel under your command, and informing me that the prisoners alluded to in your previous communication have left the Shenandoah without your knowledge, in shore boats, soon after your arrival.
Страница 269 - In the meantime, it is assumed that the loss of the Florida was a consequence of some unforeseen accident, which cast no responsibility upon the United States.
Страница 75 - I became then fearful, lest after some fighting, he would again make for the shore. To defeat this, I determined to keep full speed on, and with a port helm to run under the stern of the Alabama and rake her, if he did not prevent it by sheering and keeping his broadside to us. He adopted this mode as a preventive, and, as a consequence, the Alabama was forced with a full head of steam into a circular track during the engagement.
Страница 638 - I am quite willing to leave the point of honor to be decided by my brother yachtsmen, and, indeed, by any tribunal of gentlemen. As to my legal right to take away Captain Semmes and his friends, I have been educated in the belief that an English ship is English territory, and I am, therefore, unable, even now, to discover why I was more bound to surrender the people of the Alabama whom I had on board my yacht, than the owner of a garden on the south coast of England would have been, if they had swum...
Страница 268 - Florida, and to have continued the chase of the offender beyond the waters of Brazil, out upon the high seas. Thus, in the affair at Bahia, subordinate agents, without the knowledge of their respective governments, mutually inaugurated an unauthorized, irregular, and unlawful war. In desisting from that war on her part, and in appealing to this Government for redress, Brazil rightly appreciated the character of the United States, and set an example worthy of emulation.
Страница 621 - June, for the purpose of engaging the enemy's steamer Kearsarge, which had been lying off, and on the port, for several days previously. After clearing the harbor, we descried the enemy, with his head off shore, at the distance of about seven miles.
Страница 621 - When within about a mile and a quarter of the enemy he suddenly wheeled, and bringing his head in-shore, presented his starboard battery to me. By this time we were distant about one mile from each other, when I opened on him with solid shot, to which he replied in a few minutes, and the engagement became active on both sides.