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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.15 (search)
Jefferson Davis, privateer. [from the Savannah News, December 1, 1908.] Thrilling story of the exploits of a Confederate privateer. She performed services Invaluable to the South at a critical part of the Civil war. The Confederate privateer, Jefferson Davis, previously the condemned slave brig Echo, and which is said to have been owned at one time by J. R. Gilmore, better known as Edmund Kirke, whose death recently occurred in New York, has a history which inspires younger generations, who know of the chivalric deeds of the Southerner in the 60's only through listening to the war tales told by the gray-haired around the fireside, or through the reading of a few disconnected portions of the inside history of the hosts who saw their last banner furled at Appomattox, and wended their ways homeward to begin life over again after having revolutionized the wars of the world. On bloody battlefields and on the high seas the soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy covered the