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The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], The dashing Sumter —— how she Duped the Iroquois. (search)
y poor protection against an eight-inch shot. Her officers and crew number ninety in all. The latter are a hardy, devil-me-care set of fellows, ready for any work — men who would stick at nothing — They are of all nations — even the Irish brogue was among them. The commander, Captain Semmes, is a reserved, determined looking man, whose left hand knows not what his right deeth. He received me most courteously, and took me over his ship. I expressed my astonishment at his escape from Martinique, who, with great clearness, and with the assistance of a disgrace, he showed me how he had run the blockade, deluded the request, Capt, Palmer may be surprised to learn that he was beaten at his own weapons. The Confederates discovered the nature of the signals that were to be made from the shore when the ship got under weigh, and the trap was laid accordingly. As the evening gun fired, the cable that held the Sumter to the wharf was loosed, and she darted out under the shadow of t<