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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
nboats—the Hatteras, the Scioto, the Cayuga, the New London, and the Clifton—to blockade that port once more, and, if possible, to recapture the city. On the 11th of January these ships had just collected at the entrance of the bay, and were announcing their arrival to the Confederates by throwing a few shells into the batteries was being landed. In order to conceal his whereabouts he hid himself during the period of one month among the small islands of the Yucatan coast; then, on the 11th of January, he suddenly appeared before Galveston. Instead of the immense unarmed fleet into which he had hoped to throw confusion even before they had recognized him, s afforded him the opportunity of fighting under favorable conditions. It was, in fact, the sails of the Alabama that Bell had espied on the evening of the 11th of January, and in ordering the Hatteras to go and reconnoitre her he was sending that vessel, without suspecting it, to almost certain destruction. Semmes slackened th