...th a prize-crew to Cienfuegos to join his other prizes, still clinging to the hope that Spain would dare to be just, in the face of the truckling of England and of France. Semmes had been in the Caribbean Sea from the 3rd to the 27th of July, 1861, had captured ten prizes, and not a Federal gunboat had been heard of, although the United States Consul-General at Havana had been promptly informed of all his...