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The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
that it has been ready and anxious for two years past to attack and close up that great entrepot of blockade-runners; but the War Department has never been prepared to co- operate. The navy is ready now to do its part towards accomplishing what Mr. Seward and the people have so long desired, and if it could be done without the assistance of the military it would not long remain a vexation and reproach, and a source of strength to the enemy. The captured officers of the Florida. R. S. Floyd, T. F. Hunter and G. D. Bryan, masters; William Abern, first assistant engineer; J. B. Brown, second assistant engineer; T. Emory, assistant surgeon; T. K. Porter, first lieutenant; S. G. Stone, lieutenant; G. T. Sinclair and W. D. Hough, midshipmen; W. S. Thompson, chief engineer; all officers of the Florida, arrived at Washington on Tuesday and were committed to the Old Capitol prison. A Washington letter says: Surgeon Emery is a native of Washington and a son of the gallan