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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 20: (search)
just seen. It might do, doubtless thought Captain Palmer, to kick some small power, but France! thumter; or at the sleepless night passed by Captain Palmer. The next morning, the Governor having Acheron, Captain Duchatel, with orders to Captain Palmer, either to anchor, if he desired to enter Governor, informing him of the conduct of Captain Palmer, on the first night after his arrival, and earnest in endeavoring to capture me, and Captain Palmer spent many sleepless nights, and labored v things, by one indignant Yankee captain, that Palmer and myself had been school-mates, and that treuld require to be made to me, if I were in Captain Palmer's place. As the sequel will prove, I judglass toward the Iroquois. I have said that Captain Palmer was anxious to catch me, and judging by th were one hundred and fifty miles apart! Poor Palmer! he, no doubt, looked haggard and careworn, wsort, on the untoward event. In due time, Captain Palmer was deprived of his command—the Naval Depa[3 more...]
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 21: (search)
ged in working it for certain phosphates of lime, which they called mineral guano. We captured a rifled 9-pounder gun, with a supply of fixed ammunition, on board the Vigilant, and some small arms. We fired the ship at three P. M., and made sail on our course. The most welcome part of this capture was a large batch of New York newspapers, as late as the 21st of November. The Yankees of that ilk had heard of the blockade of the Pirate Sumter, by the Iroquois, but they had n't heard of Captain Palmer's rueful breakfast on the morning of the 24th of November. These papers brought us a graphic description of the gallant ram exploit, of Commodore Hollins, of the Confederate Navy, at the mouth of the Mississippi, on the 12th of October. This exploit is remarkable as being the first practical application of the iron-clad ram to the purposes of war. Some ingenious steamboat-men, in New Orleans, with the consent of the Navy Department, had converted the hull of a steam-tug into an iron
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 26: (search)
s, which he was bound to respect and obey, sent the sailing bark Ino, one of his armed vessels, to Tangier, which received the prisoners on board, and brought them over to Algeziras—the doughty Consul accompanying them. There was great rejoicing on board the Yankee ships of war, in that Spanish port, when the Consul and his prisoners arrived. They had blockaded the Sumter in the Mississippi, they had blockaded her in Martinique, they had chased her hither and thither; Wilkes, Porter, and Palmer, had all been in pursuit of her, but they had all been baffled. At last, the little Tangier Consul appears upon the scene, and waylaying, not the Sumter, but her paymaster, unarmed, and unsuspicious of Yankee fraud, and Yankee trickery, captures him in the streets of a Moorish town, and hurries him over to Algeziras, ironed like a felon, and delivers him to Captain Craven, of the United States Navy, who receives the prisoner, irons and all, and applauds the act! In a day or two, after th
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 37: (search)
all on him, and report our arrival. He received me kindly, notwithstanding the little sharp-shooting that had passed between us, in the way of official correspondence —and franked the ports of the island to me as before. I had long since forgiven him, for the want of independence and energy he had displayed, in not preventing the Yankee skipper from making signals to the Iroquois on the night of my escape, as the said signals, as the reader has seen, had redounded to my benefit, instead of Palmer's. In an hour or two, we had landed our prisoners; the ladies and their husbands taking a very civil leave of us. In the course of the afternoon, our decks were crowded with curious Frenchmen, come off to look at the pirate ship, of which they had heard so much, through Mr. Seward's interesting volumes of English Composition, called State Papers, and the villification and abuse of the Northern press. They were evidently a little puzzled at finding in the Alabama a rather stylish-looking shi