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Cuba (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 47
pe in the Sumter was a bold and dashing adventure. Great latitude had been given Semmes in his instructions, and his plan was to make a cruise upon the coast of Cuba, destroy all American shipping he could meet with in that quarter, coal at some convenient point, and finally proceed to Brazil. Accordingly, the Sumter steamed along the coast of Cuba, in the direct track of vessels bound for the Gulf, and while between the coast and the Isle of Pines two sail were reported in sight, both standing in the same direction with the Confederate. When within signal distance, the British ensign was displayed by the latter, and the nearest vessel proving to be are waging an aggressive and unjust war upon the Confederate States, which I have the honor with this ship under my command to represent. I have sought a port of Cuba with these prizes, with the expectation that Spain will extend to the cruisers of the Confederate States the same friendly reception that, in similar circumstances
Cienfuegos (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 47
uisa Killum, and Naiad. the prizes taken to Cienfuegos, and released by order of the Spanish author burn, but taking them in tow he steamed for Cienfuegos, in order to test the disposition of the Spaestination. On arriving off the harbor of Cienfuegos two more sail were descried from the Sumter,of Massachusetts. They had left the port of Cienfuegos three hours before, and their cargoes of sugd the prize-masters directed to stand in for Cienfuegos light-house and lay — to until morning. Tonfederate steamer and joined the others off Cienfuegos. When the sea-breeze set in, Semmes stood iegitimate business. Semmes was treated at Cienfuegos with all due courtesy, and hobnobbed with thl and provisions from his neutral friends at Cienfuegos, departed from that port on the 8th of July promptly informed of all his transactions at Cienfuegos. Five of the fast steamers purchased for thg and sinking. Having been well received at Cienfuegos, he calculated on meeting similar treatment [6 more...]
) (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 47
inexpediency of keeping his ship full of Northerners that might some day rise and overpower his crew. Commander Semmes had already received his cue from the Confederate authorities, but it would detract from his reputation for cleverness to believe that he imagined himself invested with authority to commit such an act as he had intimated, and we will be charitable enough to think that his expressions on the subject were simply gasconade. When one of the men captured in the privateer Jeff Davis was convicted of piracy in the Philadelphia Court, the Confederate Government issued the following order, which Semmes took for his guide, apparently forgetting that, while his Government might incur the responsibility, he, not the one hundred thousandth part of that Government, had no more right to commit such an act than the commonest seaman in his vessel. The letter of Mr. Secretary Benjamin, which came so near causing murder to be done on the high seas, is herewith inserted, showing t
North America (search for this): chapter 47
pponent, the de facto President of Venezuela. He thought surely some arrangement could be made with the South American republics, which were too weak to be worth the notice of the stronger Powers. What right had they to be putting on the airs of nations and talk about acknowledging other people who had never themselves been acknowledged by Spain? In this instance Semmes reckoned without his host, for he found at least one Government that had some respect left for the great republic of North America. Semmes arrived off Puerto Cabello after night-fall, and the next morning, making the ship and crew as much like those of a man-of-war as circumstances would permit, he steamed into the harbor, the prize-vessel following under sail. The Sumter had hoisted the Confederate flag early in the morning, and the Venezuelan colors were hoisted from the fort in response. The town looked like some old Moorish establishment transported to the New World, and its most prominent inhabitants appea
Gibralter (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 47
stigator captured and burned. the Sumter at Gibraltar. crowded with visitors. the Sumter in trouraits. Semmes could not think of going into Gibraltar without first examining these vessels, as hiwas not necessary to tell the inhabitants of Gibraltar what the Sumter was, for she had been expectpon the Sumter were that she should not make Gibraltar a station from which to sally out for war puheir career. While the Sumter remained in Gibraltar she was crowded with visitors. People came re watching--one from Algesiras,the other at Gibraltar — neither of them violating any neutrality, ery movement was reported to the Governor of Gibraltar as a violation of neutrality. The escape ofause, the career of the Sumter terminated at Gibraltar. Semmes could raise no money, and the presecession became lukewarm, and as every one in Gibraltar was more or less under the influence of offiet to sea, the Sumter was finally laid up at Gibraltar in charge of a midshipman, while Semmes and [1 more...]
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 47
tion with Mr. Conrad, Chairman of the Confederate States Naval Committee, and when President Davis reached the city, a few days afterwards, offered his services to the Confederate Government. They were at once accepted, and Semmes proceeded to Washington. after a visit to Richmond and Harper's Ferry, to ascertain the character of certain machinery at the latter place, in anticipation of the enlargement of the Tredagar Works at Richmond, for the South meant war from the beginning, in case of antain have thought had Ireland thrown off her allegiance, and sent out vessels to destroy British commerce, if these vessels had been received in New York, and the authorities had allowed them to refit and repair and sent them on their way. When Washington was President, and Genet Minister from France to the United States, certain French privateers put into Philadelphia, and an attempt was made to refit them so that they might commit depredations on British commerce. The President issued an orde
Caribbean Sea (search for this): chapter 47
their astonishment at the failure of the Navy Department to protect Federal commerce in the Caribbean Sea as well as in other quarters. The fact is, every passage to that sea ought to have been guato be just, in the face of the truckling of England and of France. Semmes had been in the Caribbean Sea from the 3rd to the 27th of July, 1861, had captured ten prizes, and not a Federal gunboat hending off the Maxwell, the Sumter pursued her course along the Spanish main and through the Caribbean Sea to the Port of Spain, in the Island of Trinidad. An English merchant vessel, passing out, p Commander Semmes heard of the presence of the Iroquois, Commander James S. Palmer, in the Caribbean Sea, soon after his arrival at Martinique, and made haste to get away from that place before he eral cruisers were getting on his track, the commander of the Sumter determined to leave the Caribbean Sea and cross the Atlantic. On his way Semmes captured and destroyed the Arcadia, Vigilant and
Madrid (Spain) (search for this): chapter 47
the greatest injuries from the United States Government. We can understand that a man may be led by his sympathies and the persuasion of his friends to embark in a bad cause, but there should be enough of humanity in him to cause him to feel regret at deserting tile flag he had professed to love for so many years. Semmes was not received at Cadiz with that consideration he thought lie had a right to expect, and after some correspondence with the authorities was ordered by a dispatch from Madrid to proceed to sea within twenty-four hours; but after consideration the Sumter was allowed to go into dock for repairs and Semmes was permitted to land his prisoners, who were making serious inroads on his provisions. He met with no encouragement at Cadiz. In the eyes of the Spaniards the secession movement was a mere political outbreak, in which Spain was not concerned. Part of the Sumter's crew deserted while the vessel was in dock. Semmes' money had given out; he could not purchase
Pine Islands (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 47
Chapter 45: the cruise of the Sumter and the havoc she committed. Granting belligerent rights. the policy of England and France. Semmes' reputation. the commissioning of the Sumter, the first Confederate ship-of-war. the Sumter runs the blockade of the Mississippi, pursued by the Brooklyn. Semmes displays the British ensign. the merchant-ship Golden Rocket captured and burned off Isle of Pines. a brilliant scene. capture of two brigantines; one escapes, the other taken into the harbor of Cienfuegos. capture of the Ben Dunning, Albert Adams, West wind, Louisa Killum, and Naiad. the prizes taken to Cienfuegos, and released by order of the Spanish authorities. Semmes' letter to the governor. the governor of Curacoa brought to terms by the explosion of a shell. capture of the Abby Bradford. Puerto Cabello, and what occurred there. the Abby Bradford recaptured by the U. S. Steamer Powhatan. capture of the Joseph Maxwell. President Lincoln's proclamation.
Noumea (search for this): chapter 47
nk, as it was not desirable to burn her when so many vessels were about. Many vessels were now chased without any prizes being taken, most of them being the property of neutrals, and the Sumter at length, on the 9th of November, 1861, made Port de France, in the Island of Martinique, having been at sea nearly two months since leaving Maranham. Of late the Sumter had taken few prizes, but her career, as a whole, had been very destructive and caused premiums on insurance to assume formidable pefore he should be blockaded by the Federal steamer. The Iroquois was superior in every respect to the Sumter, and Semmes had not the slightest idea of getting within range of her guns, if he could help it. On November 13, the Sumter left Port de France and anchored off St. Pierre, and a day or two later the Iroquois appeared off the harbor, and sent a boat ashore to the United States consul, after which she steamed outside and kept up a steady blockade until the authorities at Martinique ca
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