Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lieutenant-Commander Blake” in chapter 48 of Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War.:
... the Confederate commander in this action cannot be justified by the rules of war. In answer to a hail from the Hatteras, he declared his vessel to be Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Petrel, and when Lieutenant-Commander Blake proposed to send a boat along-side of him, expressed his willingness to receive the officers in a friendly manner.
This implied that the Alabama was what Semmes reported her to be, a neutral man-of...
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