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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.34 (search)
and the master, W. W. Wilkinson, whose home is at Charleston, S. C. Lieutenant Davidson's account. The meeting of the City of Richmond and the Stonewall at Quiberon, is thus told by Lieutenant Hunter Davidson, who had charge of the crew of the City of Richmond, in a letter dated February 6, 1865, and printed in The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe. I left Cherbourg 18th January, and carried out instructions on the way to Quiberon, where we found a snug anchorage on the 20th, and laid quietly, permitting no communication with the shore until the morning of the 24th at 10 o'clock, when the Stonewall hove in sight, to the rapturous le under easy steam, no doubt waiting for the weather to moderate before running down on the cost of Spain. Captain Page also wrote from Isle of d'houat, near Quiberon, giving a full account of his tedious delays and the disappointment he felt at not getting a full supply of coal, but he did not like to wait for the return of t