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The Daily Dispatch: November 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
f the capture of the Florida in Bahia. It appears that some Yankee merchants in the town, desiring the gunboat Wachusett to sink the little Florida, carried Lieutenant Morris a challenge to fight the Wachusett. He declined, and then the Yankees actually waited on him to urge a fight, but without success. The account says: Captain Morris, however, stated that if he happened to fall in with the Wachusett during a cruise, he should willingly engage in a contest with her; but that, on no account, would he consent to leave a safe harbor for the express purpose of having an engagement. All efforts on the part of outside parties to bring on a naval full head of steam. So little expectation was there of such a proceeding that one-half the officers and crew of the Florida, seventy in number, and including Captain Morris, were carousing on shore, and the remainder, having just returned from a similar absence, were in no condition to repel an assault. The Florida's officer of