Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Captain Semmes” in chapter 12.92 of Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4.:
...mission of valuable articles to the shore, such as captured chronometers, specie, and the bills of ransomed vessels and the sharpening of swords, cutlasses, and boarding-pikes.
It was reported that Captain Semmes had been advised not to give battle; that he replied he would prove to the world that his ship was not a privateer, intended only for attack upon merchant vessels, but a true man-of-war; further, tha...
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