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September 27th (search for this): chapter 123
. From all the accounts gained from these steamers the Sumter could not (without being seen) have gone east, west, or south; and it was supposed by the commander that she had gone to the northeast to lie in wait for vessels bound home from India, the Pacific, and Brazil, all of which pass the Equator between the longitude of 32° and 40°, and follow one beaten track to the north and west. Having taken in all the coal we could, (without losing time,) the Powhatan left Maranham on the 27th of September, and steered to get into the track of homeward-bound Indiamen; all hands hoping that we might find the Sumter somewhere about those regions. But it is a wide belt of water, and it would be a mere chance hitting the precise spot she would go to. The visit of the Powhatan to Maranham happened at a moment when the interests of the United States were being jeoparded by the stupidity of the Governor of the province, the fanatical and ignorant people acting in accordance with the example
August 20th (search for this): chapter 123
tance to a rebel privateer to capture American commerce. Before leaving Curacoa we heard that the Sumter had been at Trinidad, and had left there steering west. We left Curacoa on the 2d September, steering northeast, and arrived in St. Thomas on the 5th of the same month, chasing and boarding vessels on the way, by which we found that the Sumter had not been heard of for some time on the Spanish Main. At St. Thomas we heard that the Sumter had gone into Surinam (Dutch Guayana) on the 20th of August. We hustled three hundred and fifty tons of coal on board, and sailed immediately in chase. On the 10th September we communicated with the American consul at Barbadoes, and learned by a mail (that day received) that the Sumter had sailed from Surinam on the 31st August for parts unknown. We remained only an hour at Barbadoes, and shaped our course for Demarara, to see if the Sumter had stopped there, or had turned a her track and gone back to the Caribbean Sea. On the 12th of Septemb
July 24th (search for this): chapter 123
ired; and coasted along the southeastern shore of Cuba, chasing and communicating with all the vessels we saw. Some of these were Americans, and were sure that the Sumter had them, until they saw the stripes and stars. On the 21st we put into Jamaica to coal; heard many contradictory reports about the Sumter, none of which could be relied on, and sailed again on the 25th for Curacoa — so it was supposed. We arrived in Curacoa on the 29th. and found that the Sumter had left there on the 24th of July, and had (owing to the facilities she received there) been enabled to capture the Joseph Maxwell and Abbie Bradford off Porto Cabello. A good deal of dissatisfaction existed in Curacoa amongst the citizens, owing to the course pursued by the Governor in recognizing the Sumter as a vessel of war, and giving her coals, without which she would not have been able to leave that port, and would finally have been captured by some of our ships of war. A long correspondence ensued between the com
August 14th (search for this): chapter 123
ere secured, and by evening she was lying at anchor near the Powhatan. Among the papers were letters from the commander of the Sumter and her officers, giving some idea of her future movements, and indicating that her cruising ground was to be down on the Spanish Main. In two or three hours the schooner had a prize crew on board, and the Powhatan was off for Pensacola to notify the flag-officer of the Sumter's whereabouts, the Niagara remaining to blockade the South-west Pass. On the 14th August, at sunset, we arrived at Pensacola. The captain communicated with Flag-officer Mervine, and in half an hour we were steering south after the Sumter. Rather a lame duck the old Powhatan, in her present condition, to send after a clipper-steamer; but it will be seen that lame ducks on occasions get along as well as some that are not lame. There was, I assure you, a high state of excitement on board the Powhatan at the idea of going after the Sumter, and a great deal of satisfaction expr
August 13th (search for this): chapter 123
dodges, escapes, and depredations: United States ship Powhatan, St. Thomas, October 9, 1861. sir: As everything relating to the privateer steamer Sumter is at this moment particularly interesting to the mercantile community, some intelligence of the doings of that vessel and her supposed movements at present may be welcome to those who have vessels and property on the ocean. It may not be known to you that, while lying at the Southwest Pass, (mouth of the Mississippi,) on the 13th of August, the look-out at the mast-head descried the masts of a vessel, about twenty miles off, bearing N. W. It being late in the evening, nothing could be done; but at early daylight the captain sent off an armed boat, under command of Lieutenant Queen, with orders to steer N. W. until he made a vessel under sail or at anchor. After steering the direction indicated for five or six hours, with a fresh breeze under sail, Lieutenant Queen discovered a large schooner getting under way. A heavy squ
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