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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States | 88 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. | 28 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: April 14, 1863., [Electronic resource] | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: April 2, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1860., [Electronic resource] | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clinton , Sir Henry 1738 -1795 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Confederate privateers (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Craig , Sir James Henry 1749 - (search)
Craig, Sir James Henry 1749-
Military officer; born in Gibraltar in 1749; entered the British army as ensign in 1763, was aide-de-camp to General Boyd at Gibraltar in 1770, and came to America in 1774.
He remained in service here from the battle of Bunker Hill until the evacuation of Charleston, in 1781, when he held the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
He was made a major-general in 1794, lieutenant-general in 1801, and governorgeneral and commander-in-chief of Canada in 1807.
Totally unfitl Boyd at Gibraltar in 1770, and came to America in 1774.
He remained in service here from the battle of Bunker Hill until the evacuation of Charleston, in 1781, when he held the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
He was made a major-general in 1794, lieutenant-general in 1801, and governorgeneral and commander-in-chief of Canada in 1807.
Totally unfit for civil rule, he was a petty oppressor as governor; his administration was short, and he returned to England in 1811, where he died Jan. 12, 1812.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), O'Hara , Charles 1730 -1802 (search)
Sumter, the
One of the Confederate cruisers whose depredations led to the make — up of what are popularly known as the Alabama claims against Great Britain.
the Sumter was a regularly commissioned war-vessel, which before the
Gold box presented to Anderson. beginning of the Civil War was the Havana packet-steamer Marquis de Habana.
She was commanded by Capt. Raphael Semmes, had a crew of sixty-five armed men and twenty-five marines, and was heavily armed.
Her cruising area was among the West India Islands and along the Spanish coast, and she captured many American merchantmen.
At the close of 1861 she was forced to seek shelter under British guns at Gibraltar, where she was watched so closely by the United States steamer Tuscarora that escape was impossible, and early in 1862 she was sold and withdrawn from the Confederate service.
See Alabama claims, the; Confederate privateer