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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 30: (search)
entirely unarmed, and without an enlisted crew, and could have been taken possession of by an enemy's cruiser as easily as any other merchant-ship. Mr. Seward insisted, with much vehemence, with the English Government, that the Alabama was not entitled to be regarded as a ship of war, but rather a British pirate, because she had never been in a Confederate port. His latest form of protest is found in a letter to Lord Stanley, the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, of the date of January 12th, 1867, as follows:— Lord Stanley excuses the reception of the vessels complained of in British ports, subsequently to their fraudulent escapes and armament, on the ground that when the vessels appeared in these ports, they did so in the character of properly commissioned cruisers of the Government of the so-styled Confederate States, and that they received no more shelter, provisions, or facilities, than was due to them in that character. This position is taken by his lordship in full
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)
try, Oct. 12, 1861. Captain, May 1, 1863. Mustered out, Jan. 26, 1864. Captain, 3d Veteran Reserve Corps, Jan. 22, 1864; accepted, Jan. 27, 1864. Mustered out, Jan. 11, 1867. Second Lieutenant, 42d U. S. Infantry, July 28, 1866; accepted, Jan. 12, 1867. First Lieutenant, Mar. 20, 1867. Unassigned, Apr. 22, 1869. Retired with rank of Captain, Dec. 15, 1870. Kelliher, John. Born at St. John, N. B., May 12, 1840. Sergeant and First Sergeant, 20th Mass. Infantry, July 26, 1861, to Dec.9, 1863. Brevet Captain, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. First Lieutenant, 17th Veteran Reserve Corps, June 5, 1865; accepted, June 20, 1865. Second Lieutenant, 43d U. S. Infantry, July 28, 1866; accepted, Oct. 3, 1866. Regimental Adjutant, Jan. 12, 1867, to Apr. 8, 1869. Brevet First Lieutenant, U. S. Army, Mar. 2, 1867. Unassigned, Apr. 8, 1869. Assigned to 20th U. S. Infantry, July 14, 1869. First Lieutenant, Oct. 1, 1871. Regimental Quartermaster, Oct. 1, 1871, to June 30, 1883. Retire
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 8 (search)
S. Volunteers, Oct 20, 1862. See U. S. Army. Keller, Jacob William. Born in Prussia, Germany, Oct. 17, 1827. Private, 6th Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., Apr. 22, 1861. Discharged, Aug. 2, 1861. First Lieutenant, 5th N. H. Infantry, Oct. 12, 1861. Captain, May 1, 1863. Mustered out, Jan. 26, 1864. Captain, 3d Veteran Reserve Corps, Jan. 22, 1864; accepted, Jan. 27, 1864. Mustered out, Jan. 11, 1867. Second Lieutenant, 42d U. S. Infantry, July 28, 1866; accepted, Jan. 12, 1867. See U. S. Army. Kellogg, John. Born in Massachusetts. Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1845, to July 1, 1849. Brevet Second Lieutenant, 4th U. S. Artillery, July 1, 1849. Second Lieutenant, 3d Artillery, Sept. 7, 1850. First Lieutenant, Dec. 24, 1853, to May 14, 1861. Captain, Commissary of Subsistence, Aug. 3, 1861. Adjutant, 3d U. S. Artillery, June 17 to Sept. 17, 1861. Colonel, 5th Cal. Infantry, Sept. 12 to Nov. 8, 1861. Major, Commissary of Subsistence, June 29,