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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate cruisers. (search)
rrived in England and established himself at Liverpool in June, 1861. Having satisfied himself as loss of time; but on that very day she left Liverpool, ostensibly on a trial trip, and, after compund for the East Indies. A shipping firm of Liverpool was employed as the intermediary to cover al no further use for the Georgia, sent her to Liverpool in May, 1864, to be disposed of by Bulloch. der Commodore Thomas T. Craven, proceeded to Liverpool, and, learning the proposed destination of t, was projected by the Confederate agents in Liverpool. She was launched on the 7th of March, 1863cions of Mr. Dudley, United States consul at Liverpool, were aroused, and near the end of March Mr.s, and quoted the belief of the collector at Liverpool that the vessels were not intended for the Canding her stores at Nassau she proceeded to Liverpool. Here she was seized by the authorities, anounted his battery and shaped his course for Liverpool, where he arrived on the 5th of November, ha[3 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 12.91 (search)
r, John McIntosh Kell. Sailor. The Confederate cruiser Alabama was built by the Lairds, of Birkenhead, England, for the Confederate States Government. In the House of Commons the senior partner of the constructors stated that she left Liverpool a perfectly legitimate transaction. Captain James D. Bulloch, as agent for the Confederacy, superintended her construction. As a ruse she was sent on a trial trip, with a large party of ladies and gentlemen. A tug met the ship in the channelbler set of young men filling the position of officers, and a braver and more willing crew, never floated. As an evidence of their attachment to the captain and the service, I will state that after the sinking of the Alabama, upon our visit to Liverpool, where the crew were paid off, a large deputation of them called upon Captain Semmes, and pleaded with him to get command of another ship the equal of the Kearsarge, promising that they would join him to a man.--J. McI. K. The eleventh day a