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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.15 (search)
concluding with an invitation to the captured officers to dine with him in his cabin. A prize crew in charge of Prize Master Stevens was then put in charge of the captured vessel and ordered to put in at the nearest Southern port. On the same day the schooner Enchantress, from Boston, was captured off Montauk, and placed in charge of a former Savannah pilot, Wallace Smith. She was ordered South. On the following Sunday the Jefferson Davis captured the schooner S. J. Waring, of Brookhaven, L. I., with a valuable cargo. Montague Amiel, a Charleston pilot, was placed in charge, with a mate, second mate and two men. William Tillman, a negro cook, two seamen and a passenger, Bryce McKinnon, were left aboard, and late in the afternoon the captured prize was headed south. On the night of July 16, 1861, when the S. J. Waring was fifty miles south of Charleston, and when the prize captain and mate were asleep in their berths, the second mate at the wheel and the others dozing or