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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Passing of the monitor Scorpion. (search)
D. Bullock, of the Confederate navy, an uncle of President Roosevelt. Owing to the protest of Mr. Adams, then minister to England, acting under orders from Secretary Seward, the British government seized the two vessels and refused to allow them to be turned over to the Confederacy. It has always been asserted by Southern and nThe agents of the United States government in England found out the intentions of the Confederates in regard to the Laird monitors and reported the matter to Secretary Seward. The latter filed a protest through Minister Adams, and England held up the two vessels. The Confederate officers then invoked the aid of Bravay Bros., Fs to turn them over to the Confederates. The British government sent a secret messenger to the Khedive, who denied all knowledge of the matter. Upon this Secretary Seward notified the British and the French governments that if the Lairds were allowed to deliver the two boats to Bullock and North, the United States would consid