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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate cruisers. (search)
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)
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., chapter 48 (search)
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 56 : commerce-destroyers.-their inception, remarkable career, and ending. (search)
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xxix. The War on the ocean — Mobile Bay . (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 18 (search)
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18.-destruction of the Hatteras.
Capt. Raphael Semmes's report.
C. S. Steamer Alabama, Bahia, May 17, 1868.
I arrived at Galveston (under sail) on the eleventh of January, and just before nightfall made the enemy's fleet lying off the bar, consisting of five ships of war. One of the steamers was soon after perceived to get under way, and steer in our direction.
I ordered steam to be got up, but set sail on the ship as a decoy, that I might entice the enemy's ship sufficiently far from the fleet to offer her battle.
I wore ship and stood away from the bar, permitting the enemy to approach me by slow degrees.
When the enemy had approached sufficiently near, I took in all sail, and wearing short around, ran up within hail.
It was now dark, it being about seven o'clock.
The enemy hailed, What ship is that?
We responded, Her Majesty's steamer Petrel.
The reply was, I will send a boat on board.
We now hailed in turn, to know who the enemy was, and when we had re
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Confederate cruisers and the Confederate destroyers of commerce (search)
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James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Naval chronology 1861 -1865 : important naval engagements of the Civil war March , 1861 -June , 1865 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beardslee , Lester Anthony , 1836 - (search)
Beardslee, Lester Anthony, 1836-
Naval officer; born in Little Falls, N. Y., Feb. 1, 1836; was graduated at the Naval Academy in 1856; brought the Confederate steam-sloop Florida, captured off Bahia, Brazil, to the United States as prize master in 1864; and while in command of the Jamestown in 1879, discovered, surveyed, and named Glacier Bay, Alaska; promoted rear-admiral in 1895.