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James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The blockade and the cruisers. (search)
the failure of preparation during peace, when plans could be matured, and materials accumulated at leisure, compelled, when the time of action came, a hurried and lavish expenditure. Great as was the task before the United States Government in preparing for a naval war, it was as nothing to that of the enemy. The latter had at his disposal a small number of trained officers imbued with the same ideas, and brought up in the same school, as their opponents. Some of these, like Buchanan, Semmes, Brown, Maffitt, and Brooke, were men of extraordinary professional qualities; but except in its officers, the Confederate Government had nothing in the shape of a navy. It had not a single ship-of-war. It had no abundant fleet of merchant-vessels in its ports from which to draw reserves. It had no seamen, for its people were not given to seafaring pursuits. Its only shipyards were Norfolk and Pensacola. Norfolk, with its immense supplies of ordnance and equipments, was indeed invaluabl
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
, watching for an opportunity to run out. Here Semmes had every advantage, as he could obtain accura on him; but by hauling up a couple of points, Semmes brought the wind so far ahead that his pursuersance of the Foreign Office toward the acts of Semmes—acts for which a neutral ordinarily demands inadside at the Hatteras. During the hailing, Semmes had endeavored to get a raking position asternthe crews of which were landed at San Domingo, Semmes shaped his course for a point on the great hige Tuscaloosa, if a prize, would be excluded. Semmes claimed for her all the privileges of a commis was fine, with a slight haze. It was Sunday, Semmes's lucky day; but for once his luck had deserte vessels was an English yacht, the Deerhound. Semmes's purpose had been made public, and the shore his bow, and she was rapidly approaching, when Semmes saw that the end had come, and struck his flag but the introduction of fast steamers enabled Semmes to carry his operations to a point of perfecti[43 more...]
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
43 et seq., 149; killed, 150 Resolute, the, 86 Rhode Island, the, 79 Richmond, the, 11, 128 et seq. Roanoke, the, 60, 62, 65 et seq., 66 (note) Rodgers, Commander, John, 117 et seq. Rowan, Commander, 91 Sabine River, its importance to blockade-runners, 142 et seq. St. Lawrence, the, 62, 66 et seq., 89, 172 St Louis, the, 122 San Jacinto, the, 177, 194 Sassacus, the, 99 Savannah, Ga., blockaded, 35, 85, 87 et seq., 107, 109 Selfridge, Lieutenant, 51 Semmes, Captain, commands the Sumter, 173 et seq.; commands the Alabama, 192 et seq., 209 et seq., 222 et seq. Shenandoah, the, bought, 218; cruise of, 219 et seq., 220 Ship Island, 132 Smith, Captain, Melancton, 99 Smith, Lieutenant Joseph B., 61 South Carolina, the, at Pensacola, 35; at Galveston, 35, 140 Southfield, the, sunk, 93 Steamers, disposition at commencement of war, 14; purchases of, 17 et seq., 20 et seq. Stonewall, the, 221 Stripling, Commodore Cornelius K., 123