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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 13: (search)
took them both in tow, and steamed away for Cienfuegos—it being my intention to test the dispositiocts of yellow fever, which they had taken in Cienfuegos, and from which they were just convalescing. edge; the beautiful little stream, on which Cienfuegos lies, disembogued itself at the foot of the nd inform me, on the part of the Governor of Cienfuegos, with whom he had communicated, that I mightard under his command—or to sack the town of Cienfuegos, after the fashion of the Drakes, and other , that there was plenty of coal to be had in Cienfuegos, and I dispatched Lieutenant Chapman to townlain the object I had in view in coming into Cienfuegos, and the hopes I entertained of the conduct to inform you, of my arrival at the port of Cienfuegos, with seven prizes of war. These vessels aretation, for Lieutenant Chapman returned from Cienfuegos, the next morning, and brought me intelligen her six prizes, at the quiet little town of Cienfuegos. Lieutenant Chapman was met by a host of sym[1 more...]<
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 14: (search)
troy them. It was with this hope, that I had entered the port of Cienfuegos, as the reader has seen; and it was in furtherance of this objectgentleman of integrity and capacity. C. S. Steamer Sumter, Cienfuegos, July 6, 1861. Sir:—You are hereby appointed Prize Agent, forr sea, with some dispatch, as there was a line of telegraph, from Cienfuegos to Havana, where there were always a number of the enemy's ships of war stationed. As a matter of course, the U. S. Consul at Cienfuegos had telegraphed to his brother Consul, in Havana, the arrival of the n command of the Cuba. Confederate States steamer Sumter, Cienfuegos, July 7, 1861. Sir:—Upon your arrival at this place, you will pilot, who agreed with me that the prizes which I captured, off Cienfuegos, were five miles from the land, and with the Northern claimants, st. It was now the thirteenth of July, and as we had sailed from Cienfuegos, on the seventh, we had consumed six out of our eight days supply
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 15: (search)
he Southern ports, already stated in my letter to the Governor of Cienfuegos.] * * * Thus, your Excellency sees, that under the rule of exclus of Maine, also. They were laden with sugars. I sent them to Cienfuegos, Cuba. On the 5th of July, I captured the brigs Ben. Dunning, and Assachusetts. They were laden, also, with sugars. I sent them to Cienfuegos. On the next day, the 6th, I captured the barks West Wind, and LNew York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. I sent them, also, to Cienfuegos. On the same day, I ran into that port, myself, reported my ca the south side of the island of Cuba, say St. Jago, Trinidad, or Cienfuegos. I think it would be safest for you to go into Cienfuegos, as thCienfuegos, as the enemy, from the very fact of our having been there, recently, will scarcely be on the look for us a second time. The steamers which were prates. Should he grant you this request, you will, if you go into Cienfuegos, put the vessel in charge of Don Mariano Dias, our agent for the
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 17: (search)
at Curacoa, and has turned back herself. If she were on the right track she should be here before this. There was great commotion, too, as we learn by these papers, at Key West, on the 8th of July, when the news reached there of our being at Cienfuegos. Consul Shufeldt, at Havana, had been prompt, as I had foreseen. We entered Cienfuegos on the 6th, and on the 8th, he had two heavy and fast steamers, the Niagara and the Crusader, in pursuit of us. They, too, seem to have lost the trail. Cienfuegos on the 6th, and on the 8th, he had two heavy and fast steamers, the Niagara and the Crusader, in pursuit of us. They, too, seem to have lost the trail. August 28th.—Bright, elastic morning, with a gentle breeze from the south-east. There was a grand fandango, on shore, last night, at which some of my officers were present. The fun grew fast and furious, as the night waned, and what with the popping of champagne-corks, and the flashing of the bright eyes of the waltzers, as they were whirled in the giddy dance, my young fellows have come off looking a little red about the eyes, and inclined to be poetical. Rumors have been rife, for some d
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 32: (search)
quainted with the officers of that ship, and if, after the fashion of the sailor, he has formed a liking for any of them, he will naturally be inclined to know what became of such of them as did not follow me to the Alabama. Of the lieutenants, only one of my old set followed me. Accident separated the rest from me, very much to my regret, and we afterward played different roles in the war. The reader has not forgotten Chapman, the second officer of the Sumter, who made such a sensation in Cienfuegos, among the fair sex, and who slept in such a sweet pair of sheets at the house of his friend, that he dreamed of them for weeks afterward. Chapman finished the cruise in the Sumter, serving everybody else pretty much as he served the Cienfuegos people, whenever he chanced to get ashore. He was always as ready to tread one measure—take one cup of wine, with a friend, as to hurl defiance at an enemy. He carried the garrison mess at Gibraltar by storm. There was no dinner-party without hi
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 41: (search)
ft. Flying like a sea-gull before a gale only a moment before, she became, in an instant, like the same sea-gull with its wings folded, and riding upon the wave, without other motion than such as the wave gave it. Ranging within a convenient distance, we lowered, and sent a boat on board of her. She proved to be American, as we had suspected. She was the Chastelaine of Boston, last from the island of Guadeloupe, whither she had been to deliver a cargo of staves, and was now on her way to Cienfuegos, in the island of Cuba, in quest of sugar and rum for the Boston folks. We applied the torch to her, lighting up the sea-girt walls of Alta Vela with the unusual spectacle of a burning ship, and disturbing the slumber of the sea-gulls and gannets for the balance of the night. The next morning found us still steaming to the eastward, along the Haytian coast. Having now the crews of two ships on board, as prisoners, I hauled in closer to the coast, with the intention of running into the