History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel: Its Stupendous Struggle with the Great Navy of the United States; the Engagements Fought in the Rivers and Harbors of the South, and Upon the High Seas; Blockade-running, First Use of Iron-clads and Torpedoes, and Privateer HistoryRogers & Sherwood, 1886 - 824 страници |
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... Galveston Bay , the revenue cutter Dodge was seized , and Fort Brown surrendered . Arkansas seceded May 6 , and the arsenal at Little Rock , containing 9,000 small arms , 40 cannon , and some ammunition , was taken possession of . The ...
... Galveston Bay , the revenue cutter Dodge was seized , and Fort Brown surrendered . Arkansas seceded May 6 , and the arsenal at Little Rock , containing 9,000 small arms , 40 cannon , and some ammunition , was taken possession of . The ...
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... Galveston , to raise the embargo at that port - general government alone having such power . The Catawba sailed for New York , full of freight and passengers . She was owned principally in New Orleans and Mobile . She was only seized on ...
... Galveston , to raise the embargo at that port - general government alone having such power . The Catawba sailed for New York , full of freight and passengers . She was owned principally in New Orleans and Mobile . She was only seized on ...
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... Galveston . The plan was approved , it is said , by Secretary Mallory , and Commander Read made immediate preparations to carry his enterprise into effect . With Lieut . W. H. Wall as his ex- ecutive officer , Master Samuel P. Blanc ...
... Galveston . The plan was approved , it is said , by Secretary Mallory , and Commander Read made immediate preparations to carry his enterprise into effect . With Lieut . W. H. Wall as his ex- ecutive officer , Master Samuel P. Blanc ...
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... Galveston , and through Mexico , across the Rio Grande . From March 1st , 1864 , to January 1st , 1865 , the value of the shipments of cotton on Confederate government account was shown by the Secretary's report to have been $ 5,296,000 ...
... Galveston , and through Mexico , across the Rio Grande . From March 1st , 1864 , to January 1st , 1865 , the value of the shipments of cotton on Confederate government account was shown by the Secretary's report to have been $ 5,296,000 ...
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... Galveston , by Gens . E. Kirby Smith and J. Bankhead Magruder with Gen. A. J. Smith brought the war to an effec- tual close . Charleston was evacuated on the 17th of February . and Fort Anderson , the last of the defences at Wilmington ...
... Galveston , by Gens . E. Kirby Smith and J. Bankhead Magruder with Gen. A. J. Smith brought the war to an effec- tual close . Charleston was evacuated on the 17th of February . and Fort Anderson , the last of the defences at Wilmington ...
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Страница 58 - Enemy's Flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective, that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Страница 452 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Страница 68 - President of the United States of America to all who shall see these presents, greeting...
Страница 434 - ... be duly warned by the commander of one of the blockading vessels, who will indorse on her register the fact and date of such warning ; and if the same vessel shall again attempt to enter or leave the blockaded port, she will be captured and sent to the nearest convenient port, for such proceedings against her and her cargo as prize as may be deemed advisable.
Страница 55 - Whereas the laws of the United States have been, for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Страница 76 - A just regard to humanity and to the honor of this Government now requires me to state explicitly that, painful as will be the necessity, this Government will deal out to the prisoners held by it the same treatment and the same fate as shall be experienced by those captured on the Savannah...
Страница 444 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC.
Страница 53 - States, and the instructions which shall be given them according to law for the regulation of their conduct, and will satisfy all damages and injuries which shall be done or committed contrary to the tenor thereof by such vessel during her commission, and to deliver up the same when revoked by the president of the Confederate States. SEC. .5. That all captures and prizes of vessels and property shall be forfeited and shall accrue to the owners...
Страница 71 - And I hereby proclaim and declare that if any person, under the pretended authority of the said States, or under any other pretence, shall molest a vessel of the United States, or the persons or cargo on board of her, such person will be held amenable to the laws of the United States for the prevention and punishment of piracy.
Страница 594 - States, do hereby give our solemn parole of honor that we will not hereafter serve in the armies of the Confederate States, or in any military capacity "whatever, against the United States of America, or render aid to the enemies of the latter, until properly exchanged in such manner as shall be mutually approved by the respective authorities.