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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 30: (search)
speed and other essentials was entirely inadequate to the service for which she was designed. She proceeded as far as the Cape of Good Hope, and returned, after having captured seven ships and two barks. Then she was laid up and sold. The Shenandoah, once the Sea King, was purchased by Captain Bullock and placed under the command of Lieutenant-commanding J. J. Waddell, who fitted her for service under many difficulties at the barren island of Porto Santo, near Madeira. After experiencing August, 1865, hearing of the close of the war, he ceased his pursuit of United States commerce, sailed for Liverpool, England, and surrendered his ship to the English government, which transferred it to the government of the United States. The Shenandoah was a full-rigged ship of eight hundred tons, very fast under canvas. Her steam power was merely auxiliary. This was the last but not the first appearance of the Confederate flag in Great Britain; the first vessel of the Confederate governm
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 31: (search)
ce resulted in great detriment to the United States. The claims presented to the conference for damages done by our several cruisers were as follows: the Alabama, $7,050,293.76; the Boston, $400; the Chickamauga, $183,070.73; the Florida, $4,057,--934.69; the Clarence, tender of the Florida, $66,736.10; the Tacony, tender of the Florida, $169,198.81; the Georgia, $431,160.72; the Jefferson Davis, $7,752; the Nashville, $108,433.96; the Retribution, $29,--018.53; the Sallie, $5,540; the Shenandoah, $6,656,838.81; the Sumter, $179,697.67; the Tallahassee, $836,841.83. Total, $19,782,917.60. Miscellaneous, $479,033; increased insurance, $6,146,219.71. Aggregate, $26,408,170.31. The conference rejected the claims against the Boston, the Jefferson Davis, and the Sallie, and awarded to the United States government $15,500,000 in gold. But the indirect damages upon the commerce of the United States produced by these cruisers were far beyond the amount of the claims presented to the
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
Semple, —, 589-90. Serrano, Marshal, 218. Seven Pines, Battle of, 101-06, 133. Seward, William H., 220-21, 227, 244, 321, 403, 404, 406, 407, 417, 521. Extracts from letter to Francis Adams concerning cotton exports, 288-89. Seymour, Governor of New York, 413, 414. Correspondence with Gen. Dix concerning conscription, 411-12. Extract from letter concerning military usurpation of civil liberties, 421-22. Sharkey, William L., 635. Sharpsburg, Pa., Battle of, 279-80, 281-87. Shenandoah (ship), 221, 237, 593. Shepley, Gen. George F., 248. Military governor of Louisiana, 241. Sheridan, General, 426, 427, 449, 451, 453, 455,545, 555, 557, 558, 561, 618, 638-39. Skirmish with Stuart's force at Yellow Tavern, 427-28. Sherman, Gen. Thomas W., 8, 64, 65. Gen. William T., 15, 41, 50, 171, 327, 331,332, 340, 354, 365, 455, 466, 472, 473, 475-76, 478, 480, 481, 483, 485, 508, 526, 551,574, 577, 578, 579, 590, 591,592. Extracts from report of siege of Corinth, Miss., 59.