...made by a Confederate vessel-of-war — for Semmes had no more right to capture her than he had to seize the Spanish vessel he first encountered. Semmes at the time was simply an insurgent like Lopez , the Cuban fillibuster, who was garotted in the plaza at Havana, (because belligerent rights had not been accorded him,) and he was under the ban of proclamation. By sunset the wind had died awa...