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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 42: (search)
on after daylight, we gave chase to another sail in the E. S. E., with which we cane up about eight A. M. She was an English ship, from the Mauritius, for Cork. She confirmed our suspicion, that the Yankee ships were avoiding, as a general rule, the beaten tracks, having spoken one of them on the line, bound to the coast of Brazil, which had travelled as far east as the twenty-third meridian; or about four hundred miles out of her way. We were still standing to the southward, and on the 21st of March we were very near the sun, for while he was crossing the equator, we were in latitude 2° 47′ N.; our longitude being 26° W. On that day, the weather is thus recorded in my journal: Cloudy, with squalls of rain, and the wind shifting, indicating that we have lost the trades. It is pleasant to hear the thunder roll, for the first time in several months, sounding like the voice of an old friend; and the crew seem to enjoy a ducking from the heavy showers-rain having been a rare visitor of
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 57: (search)
he broken remains of the Army of the Tennessee, and he was afraid of him. His object now was to put himself in communication with Schofield, who had landed at Wilmington and at Newbern with a large force, and establish a new base of operations at these points. He would be safe here, as his troops could be fed, and in case of disaster, he could fall back upon the sea, and upon Porter's gunboats. He effected the contemplated junction with Schofield, at Goldsboroa, North Carolina, on the 21st of March. He had not touched any of Lee's communications with his depots since leaving Winsboroa; the destruction of which communications Grant had so much at heart, and which had been the chief object of his—Sherman's—great march. At Goldsboroa he was still 150 miles from Grant's lines, and he took no further part in the campaign. His junction with Schofield had not been effected without disaster. At Kinston, Bragg gained a victory over Schofield, utterly routing him, and taking 1500 priso