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James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
fter two months of cruising in the Atlantic, the Sumter put in to St. Pierre, in the island of Martinique, for coal and water. She had been here only five days when the Iroquois came in, a very fast and places agreed upon. Arriving on the 18th of November at Fort de France, in the island of Martinique, Semmes found the Agrippina awaiting him; but he postponed taking in his coal, and as a precauordered to cruise in the Vest Indies, in search of the Alabama, and the latter had not been at Martinique a day before the sloop came in. She carried one Xi-inch and ten Ix-inch guns; so that in armament the Alabama was not a match for her. As the Governor of Martinique proposed to enforce the twenty-four hours rule, the San Jacinto did not come to anchor, but went out to cruise beyond the marine ous plan was defeated by Wilkes. On the 28th of February, the Vanderbilt, after looking in at Martinique and Guadaloupe, fell in with the Wachusett off St. Thomas. Wilkes thereupon left the Wachuse