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d none of the character of a vessel of war, she was released. Captain Maffitt, who had gone out with a cargo of cotton, here received a lettsel was ready for sea that she did not immediately go out, but Captain Maffitt, with sound judgment and nautical skill, decided to wait for ae smoke and canvas of the Florida furnished their only guide. Captain Maffitt thus describes the ruse by which he finally escaped: The canvain within thirty miles of New York. When near Cape St. Roque, Captain Maffitt capured a Baltimore brig, the Clarence, and fitted her out as Under these orders he destroyed many Federal vessels. Of him Captain Maffitt wrote: Daring, even beyond the point of martial prudence, he el expedition sent out against him. While under the command of Captain Maffitt the Florida, with her tenders, captured some fiftyfive vesselsit was necessary to go into some friendly harbor for repairs. Captain Maffitt says: I selected Brest, and, the Government courteously consen
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
der from Lincoln to crush Jackson, 90. McFarland, —, 100. McGrath, John, 200. McIlhenny, Captain, 424-25. McIntosh, General, 40. McKeefer, John, 200. McKernon, Thomas, 200. McLaughlin, General, 554. McLaws, General, 111, 120, 131, 270, 277, 278, 279-80, 282, 285, 286, 294, 296, 301, 302, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 372. McMurray, Daniel, 201. McNealis, John, 201. McNeil, General, 600. McPherson, General, 475. McRae, Colonel, 72, 77. McRae (boat), 186. Madison, James, 4. Maffitt, Captain, 217. Escape of Florida from Mobile harbor, 218-19. Activities of the Florida, 219. Magruder, Gen. John B., 60, 71, 76, 79, 102, 111, 119, 120-21, 124, 126, 127, 131, 196-97, 199, 201, 212, 590, 591. Preparations for McClellan's advance on Richmond, 67-68, 70. Advance, the 68-69, 71-74. Report on recapture of Galveston, 197-98. Report on battle of Sabine Pass, 200. Mahone, General, 300, 544. Major, General, 350. Mallory, S. R., 75, 170, 191, 192, 193, 589. Malone, Patric