The Log of the Alabama and the Sumter: From the Private Journals and Other Papers of Commander R. Semmes, C.S.N., and Other OfficersSaunders, Otley & Company, 1865 - 297 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
afternoon Alabama American anchor appeared arrived August barque Bay of Gibraltar belligerent blank cartridge boat on board brig brought burned C.S. Steamer Sumter Cadiz Cape Town Captain Semmes captured cargo chase coal coast command Confederate course cruise cruiser deck despatched distance enemy enemy's English Excellency fire flag French fresh gale Gibraltar Governor guns harbour Hatteras hauled hoisted honour hove informed Iroquois island January Kearsage land letter Lieutenant Low light little Sumter Majesty's Government master miles morning neutral night noon officers passed pilot port prisoners prize crew proved received repairs reply reported returned Robben Island sail Saldanha Bay Saturday schooner Sea Bride Sent a boat ship ship's shore sight Simon's Bay starboard steam steamer Alabama stood Sumter Sunday supply Table Bay Tangier to-day topsails Tuesday Tuscaloosa United States colours United States Consul vessel violation weather Wednesday whaling wind Wodehouse Yankee Yankee Consul
Popular passages
Page 270 - Attorney-General of this Colony as to the legality of the so-called tender to the Confederate States armed ship Alabama, and for which I beg to express my thanks. The vessel in question, now called the Tuscaloosa, arrived here this evening, and the boarding officer from my flag-ship obtained the following information : — That she is a...
Page 291 - Sir: I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the...
Page 275 - His Excellency has no instructions, neither has he any authority, to seize or detain that vessel ; and he desires me to acquaint you that be has received a letter from the Commander, dated the 1st instant, stating that repairs were in progress, and as soon as they were completed he intended to go to sea. He further announces his intention of respecting strictly the neutrality of the British Government. The course which Captain...
Page 269 - ... for where the former character of a captured vessel had been obliterated by her conversion into a ship of war. the legislature meant to look no further, but considered the title of the former owner for ever extinguished.
Page 294 - ... appears in the former commission, and not in the latter. The Tuscaloosa having, then, been commissioned by me, in accordance with the recognized practice of all civilized nations that have a marine, can any other government than my own look into her antecedents? Clearly not. The only thing which can be looked at, upon her entering a foreign port, is her commission. If this be issued by competent authority, you cannot proceed a step further. The ship then becomes a part of the territory of the...
Page 16 - The cargoes of several of the vessels are claimed, as appears by certificates found among the papers, as Spanish property. This fact cannot of course be verified, except by a judicial proceeding in the Prize Courts of the Confederate States. But...
Page 92 - If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is, that every nation has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of a host of American martyrs; but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation.
Page 282 - Alabama southeast about six or six and a half miles. This statement is borne out by the evidence of Captain Wilson, port captain of Table Bay, who has assured me that at the time of the Sea Bride being captured he was...
Page 284 - Cape could exercise any jurisdiction over her ; and that, whatever may have been her previous history, you were bound to treat her as a ship of war belonging to a belligerent Power.
Page 278 - I am directed, by the Governor, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, relative to the Alabama.