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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 36: (search)
d moral ideas, with a considerable quantity of powder. But for the Wales meeting with the Alabama, it would, probably, have gone into some ossed, at the period, for the Southern staple. The captain of the Wales, though a Northern man, had very few of the ear-marks of the Yankew England States. There was no attempt to cover the cargo of the Wales, and I was glad to find, that it was consigned to, and probably ownh Minister at Washington did, when they heard of the burning of the Wales, or whether the Advertiser invoked, anew, the protection of the Brid only been fished for temporary use, we got down the yard from the Wales, and brought it on board. We treated the ladies—our first prisona Christian and a gentleman. It took us some time to despoil the Wales of such of her spars and rigging as we wanted, and it was near nighhutting her out from view, it was useless to attempt to chase. The Wales was one of the most useful of my captures. She not only served as
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 37: (search)
Chapter 37: The calm-belts, and the trade-winds the arrival of the Alabama at the island of Martinique the curiosity of the islanders to see the ship a Quasi mutiny among the crew, and how it was quelled. We captured the Wales, as described in the last chapter, on the 8th of November. On the 10th of the same month, we observed in latitude 25°. We were approaching the calm-belt of Cancer. There are three of these calm-belts on the surface of the earth, and the phenomena whiccruise, and when I shall mention the trade-winds and the calm-belts, hereafter, the reader will not, I hope, regret the time I have consumed in refreshing his memory on so interesting a subject. We spoke several English vessels after burning the Wales, and a couple of them, bound to Demerara, kept company with us through the calm-belt. We sent a boat on board one of them, from New York, but she had neither news nor newspapers. At length, when we had reached the parallel of about 20°, we beg