Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Davis” in chapter 6, page 409 of Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States:
...he Savannah, a small schooner, was the first to sail June 3rd, under a Confederate commission as a privateer, and being soon captured by the U. S. brig Perry, its crew were put in irons as pirates.
Mr. Davis made an immediate demand that they should be treated as prisoners of war, stating to President Lincoln that if driven to the terrible necessity of retaliation by your execution of the officers and cr...
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