Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Chesapeake” in article 4 of The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1864., [Electronic resource]:
...ing Master, Alexander Curtis; Assistant Surgeon, William L. Sheppardson; Lieutenant of Marines,--Crenshaw.
The Yankee papers published a statement that the surgeon, Dr. Sheppardson, was one of the " Chesapeake pirates." This is untrue, as Surgeon Sheppardson was in a Confederate port at the time of the Chesapeake affair.
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