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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.15 (search)
nd 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 en 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 as plan, killing the three with a hatchet and throwing their bodies overboard. After retaking the vessel, the steward was in command, and shortly afterwards the S. J. Waring was carried up to the Battery in New York harbor by the pilot-boat Jane. After having captured a good number of Federal ships and retained their crews as pr
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway (search)
America. A prize crew of five men were put on board to take her to the nearest port. As soon as the Sumter was out of sight, Captain Stroud succeeded in disarming the prize crew, put them in irons, and the brig, with three of the prisoners, is now on her way to New York. Two of the privateer prisoners were transferred from the Cuba to the Costa Rica, and were brought to New York. The same papers also bring a statement of another recapture: New York, July 21.--Arrived schooner S. J. Waring, one of the prizes captured by the privateer Jeff Davis. On the night of the 16th instant, when fifty miles south of Charleston, the steward, William Tilman, killed three of the prize crew with a hatchet. The other two were released; on promising to assist in working the Their names are James Wilmer and James Dawsett, formerly of New Jersey. The negro Tilman, with the aid of the rest of the crew, except one named Donald McCloud, who refused to assist in the recapture of the vessel, br