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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 40 2 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 1 Browse Search
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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 22: (search)
l around the globe which we inhabit. Captain Matthew F. Maury, of the late Confederate States' Navyast bound in fetters of ice. To pursue Captain Maury's theory a little farther: the flow of tepluence. One word before I part with my friend Maury. In common with thousands of mariners all ovhandling his ship, and to no man so much as to Maury is he indebted for a knowledge of these laws. een so vindictively, and furiously assailed as Maury. The nationalists of the North,—and I mean byent was paramount,—had taken especial pride in Maury and his labors. He, as well as the country atuntry, and the cleverest men in the world, and Maury was one of these. But Maury, resisting all Maury, resisting all these blandishments, showed, to their horror, when the hour of trial came, that he was a Southern ghing else may be forgiven, but this never can. Maury became at once a rebel and a traitor, and eveess of some of the rivalries and jealousies of Maury, on the part of certain small philosophers, wh[1 more...]<
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 23: (search)
the principal hotel by an English admirer, and another was the market. The latter is unexcelled in any part of the world. Fine beef and mutton from Andalusia, fish from the sea, and fruits and wines from all parts of Spain, were present in profusion. Although we were in midwinter, there were a variety of vegetables, and luscious oranges and bananas that had ripened in the open air—all produced by the agency of that Mexican Gulf heating-apparatus, of which we spoke through the lips of Professor Maury, a few pages back. Before leaving Cadiz I saw the first annual report of the Federal Secretary of the Navy since the breaking out of the war. Old gentleman Welles was eloquent, and denunciatory when he came to speak of the Sumter. The vessel was a pirate, and her commander everything that was odious. The latter was courageously capturing unarmed merchant-ships, and cowardly fleeing from the Federal steamers sent in pursuit of him. There were six of these ships in full hue and cry af
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 27: (search)
cientific branches, and could handle his ship like a toy. Brave, cool, and full of resource, he was equal to any and every emergency that could present itself in a sailor's life. He made a brilliant cruise in the Florida, and became more famous as a skilful blockade-runner than any other man in the war. This man, whose character I have not at all overdrawn, was pursued by the Yankee, after his resignation, with a vindictiveness and malignity peculiarly Puritan—to his honor be it said. With Maury, Buchanan, and other men of that stamp, who have been denounced with equal bitterness, his fame will survive the filth thrown upon it by a people who seem to be incapable of understanding or appreciating noble qualities in an enemy, and devoid of any other standard by which to try men's characters, than their own sectional prejudices. We should rather pity than contemn men who have shown, both during and since the war, so little magnanimity as our late enemies have done. The savage is full
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 37: (search)
he rain dust reported by the mariners to have fallen on the decks and rigging of their ships, in the neighborhood of the Cape de Verde islands. But the rain-dust was of brick-dust, or cinnamon color, when collected by the masters of the ships, as specimens and the heavens, when filled with the dust thrown up by the whirlwinds, as described by Humboldt, appeared to him to be of a straw color. Here is a discrepancy to be rec onciled, and we must call in the aid of another philosopher, Captain M. F. Maury, late Superintendent of the National Observatory, at Washington, before alluded to in these pages, and to whom I am indebted for many of the facts here quoted. Captain Maury was struck with this discrepancy, and in reconciling it with the theory here discussed, makes the following statement: in the search for spider lines, for the diaphragms of my telescopes, I procured the finest, and best threads from a cocoon of a mud-red color; but the threads of this cocoon, as seen singly in th
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 38: (search)
proposed resolution. He declared that American ships could no longer get cargoes, in consequence of the depredations of the Alabama. Hon. F. A. Conkling spoke in behalf of granting letters-ofmarque. He saw no other alternative between this and a complete paralyzation of our commerce. He read extracts from Cogswell's Maritime History, showing the effectiveness of privateers in our previous wars. C. H. Marshall spoke in favor of the adoption of Mr. Low's preamble and resolution. Mr. Maury stated that he had received a letter from Liverpool, saying that the new pirate ships building for the Confederates are vastly more formidable than the Alabama. The preamble and resolutions set forth at length the evil consequences likely to ensue from a repetition of such piratical acts as the fitting out of more vessels like the Alabama, in the ports of Great Britain; that information has been received of other vessels having sailed to prey upon the commerce of the United States; that
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 40: (search)
n this connection, that flows into the Gulf of Mexico, come to his relief, as we have seen that that river only empties into the Gulf of Mexico, about one three thousandth part as much water, as the Gulf Stream takes out. We must resort, of necessity, to an under-current from the north, passing into the Gulf of Mexico, under the Gulf Stream, rising to the surface when heated, and thus swelling the volume of the outflowing water. I refer my readers, curious in this matter, to the work of Captain Maury, entitled the Physical Geography of the Sea. It is full of profound philosophy, on the subjects of which it treats, and is written in so pleasing a style, and is so strewn with flowers, as to make the reader forget that he is travelling the thorny paths of science. The 18th of January was Sunday, and we were obliged to intermit the usual Sunday muster, on account the of bad weather, which continued without intermission—the wind still blowing a gale, and the passing clouds deluging us
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 41: (search)
olumbus the capture of the Palmetto, the Olive Jane, and the golden Eagle how the Roads are Lazed out upon the sea Captain Maury. On the 25th of January, 1863, or just five days after our arrival at Jamaica, we had completed all our preparatioupon parallels and meridians. The chief blazer of these roads, is an American, of whom all Americans should be proud—Captain Maury, before mentioned in these pages. He has so effectually performed his task, in his Wind and Current Charts, that theesired. The most unscientific and practical navigator, may, by the aid of these charts, find the road he is in quest of. Maury has been, in an eminent degree, the benefactor of the very men who became most abusive of him, when they found that he, lthe annual saving to the commerce of the United States, effected by these charts, and sailing directions. According to Mr. Maury, the average freight from the United States to Rio Janeiro, is 17.7 cents per ton, per day; to Australia, 20 cents; to
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 42: (search)
d those awful trysails of hers spread out in the moonlight like so many winding-sheets. On the day after this adventure, a Dutch bark and an English brig came along; and on the same night, we boarded the English four-master, the Sarah Sands, from the East Indies for Falmouth. At daylight, the next morning, the look-out at the mast-head began to cry sails, until he reported as many as seven in sight at one time. They were all European bound, and were jogging along, in company, following Maury's blazes, like so many passengers on a highway. The Alabama stood like a toll-gate before them, and though we could not take toll of them, as they were all neutral, we made each traveller show us his passport, as he came up. One obstinate fellow—a Hamburger—refused to show us his colors, until he was commanded to do so by a gun. I made it a practice to punish these unmannerly fellows, for their want of civility. On the present occasion, the Hamburger was detained a considerable time, whils