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The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern News. (search)
ister that all, except the Giraffe, are owned in the name of George Wigg, a Liverpool merchant, active in the rebel cause, and were bought by Henry Lafone, agent. Both Wigg and Lafone have been in Glasgow on business connected with the vessels. Messrs Begby & Co., of London, who were concerned in fitting out the Gladiator, of recent notoriety, have also three iron steamers, of 500 and 600 tons, building on the Clyde, probably intended to run the blockade. From the fact that Captain Reasons who went to Glasgow to take charge of the Columbia, was transferred to the superintendence of the whole rebel fleet, it is supposed that this firm may also be interested in the Columbia.--The names of Messrs. Begby & Co., of George Wigg, of Henry Lafone, of George and James Thompson, and especially of James Laird, M. P., and rebel merchants, agents, and ship builders, deserve to be faithfully remembered by loyal Americans till a possible day of future reckoning. But it is the Liver
The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Capture of a Yankee transport. (search)
Capture of a Yankee transport. --Captains Edwards and Reasons, with sixty-five men, captured a Yankee transport at Friar's Point, on the Mississippi river, on the 6th ult. The particulars of the affair, as given in the Southern (Miss) Motive, are as follows: Captain Edwards dressed himself in citizen's clothes, stationed his command in the cane about a half mile from Friant's Porat, and mounted himself on an old poor horse and rode up in town. --When he arrived there he saw a transpthe spot where the transport was, and the order was given to fire, which was compiled with. About one hundred shots were fired when the order was given to cease firing, but to shoot every one that attempted to cut the cable. Capts. Edwards and Reasons and a Texan got in a skiff and paddled to the transport, and boarded her, and forced the crew to take her to the wharf. All the command then went aboard. They captured $37,000 in greenbacks, $60,000 in Confederate, overcoat, hat, and pair of b