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The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Skirmishing below Richmond. (search)
The Confederate privateersmen. --Among the paroled prisoners that arrived here yesterday were 82 men, composing the crews of the ships Dixie, Petrel. Beauregard, Savannah, Sumter, &c. We saw yesterday John Jonnelli and Chas. Forrester, two of the crew of the Dixie, Capt. Moore and Henry A. Rowan, of the Petrel, Capt. Percy. The Dixie was captured on the 3d of August, 1861, off Charleston, S. C., by the U. S. frigate Wabash; the Petrel by the St. Lawrence, after being out of Charleston, S. C., but a few hours, on the 28th of August, 1861.--The crew were closely ironed and sent to Hampton Roads, where they remained three weeks, and were conveyed to New York on the Minnesota, thence to Fort Lafayette, where there was no abatement in the severity of their treatment. Rowan states that the Baltimore ladies sent the Petrel's crew a large lot of clothing, which was received by Lieut. Harvey, of that vessel, and distributed. He turned over the surplus to Mr. Gibson, commandant of For