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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 16: career of the Anglo-Confederate pirates.--closing of the Port of Mobile — political affairs. (search)
was then displayed over her stern; so, respecting it, the firing of the Kearsarge ceased. In the space of two, minutes the Alabama treacherously opened two guns upon her adversary, and attempted to run to the protection of neutral waters, not more than three miles distant. This drew the fire of the Kearsarge again, and then she steamed ahead, and laid across the Alabama's bows, for raking. The white flag was still flying, and Winslow's fire was again reserved. Semmes, in a letter to J. M. Mason, the Confederate Envoy in London, omitting to mention his own perfidious conduct in opening fire after he had displayed a white flag, said:--Although we were but 400 yards from each other, the enemy fired upon me five times after my colors had been struck. It is charitable to suppose Stern-post. that a ship-of-war of a Christian nation could not have done this intentionally. the statement of Captain Winslow, given substantially in the text, which was corroborated by that of Semmes's f
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
.234. Great Britain, relations with in 1861, 1.567; sympathy with the conspirators in, 2.152; Mason sent as ambassador to, 2.153. Greble, Lieut. J. T., death of at Big Bethel, 1. 508. GreeleHatteras Island, sufferings of the Twentieth Indiana regiment on, 2.109. Havana, reception of Mason and Slidell at, 2.154. Hawes, Richard, made provisional governor of Kentucky by Bragg and Kir Maryland Heights, occupation of by Gen. French, 3.51; abandonment of urged by Hooker, 3.56. Mason, Senator James M., letter of in relation to the Virginia ordinance of secession, 1.384; sent as ambassador to Great Britain, 2.153. Mason and Slidell, taken from the Trent, by Capt. Wilkes, 2.154; consigned to Fort Warren, 2.155; release of demanded, 2.160; surrender of, 2.164. Massachusesit of the author to the battle-field of the, 3.811. Wilkes, Captain, Charles, his seizure of Mason and Slidell on the Trent, 2.154; his action approved by the Secretary of the Navy and by Congres