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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 8: (search)
ls, entirely unfit for the purposes of war, and it was difficult to find any of the sea-going steamers, which combined the requisite lightness of draught, with the other qualities desired. March was now drawing to a close, the war-cloud was assuming darker, and more portentous hues, and it soon became evident that my usefulness in the North was about to end. Men were becoming more shy of making engagements with me, and the Federal Government was becoming more watchful. The New York, and Savannah steamers were still running, curiously enough carrying the Federal flag at the peak, and the Confederate flag at the fore; and in the last days of March, I embarked on board one of them, arriving in Montgomery on the 4th of April, just eight days before fire was opened upon Fort Sumter. During the short interval that elapsed between my arrival, and my going afloat, I was put in charge of the LightHouse Bureau; the Confederate Congress having, upon my recommendation, established a Bureau, w
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 16: (search)
on the action of their own Government, in the case of the Savannah prisoners. The reader will probably recollect the case tor, an American newspaper, of late date, stating that the Savannah prisoners had been released from close confinement, and we vitally interested in the issue. The commission of the Savannah, though she was only a privateer, was as lawful as our ow Davis, as soon as he heard of the treatment to which the Savannah prisoners had been subjected, wrote a letter of remonstra received, of the treatment of the prisoners taken on the Savannah, that I have been compelled to withdraw those indulgencesme fate, as shall be experienced by those captured on the Savannah; and if driven to the terrible necessity of retaliation, by your execution of any of the officers, or crew of the Savannah, that retaliation will be extended so far, as shall be req inaugurating it. Shortly before the conviction of the Savannah prisoners, a seaman named Smith, captured on board the pr
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 36: (search)
ew her to be Yankee, although she had not yet shown her colors. We had become now very expert in detecting the nationalities of ships. I had with me a master's mate—Evans—who had a peculiar talent in this respect. He had been a pilot out of Savannah, and had sailed in the Savannah, privateer, at the beginning of the war. He escaped the harsh treatment, and trial for piracy, which, as the reader may recollect, were the fate of the prisoners captured in that little vessel, by being absent in Savannah, privateer, at the beginning of the war. He escaped the harsh treatment, and trial for piracy, which, as the reader may recollect, were the fate of the prisoners captured in that little vessel, by being absent in a prize at the time of her capture. He afterward joined me at Liverpool. Whenever I had any doubt about the nationality of a ship, I always sent for Mr. Evans, and putting my telescope in his hand, I would say to him, Look at that ship, pointing in the given direction, and tell me to what nation she belongs. A glance of a minute or two was all he required. Lowering his glass at the end of this time, he would say to me, She is a Yankee, sir, or, She is not a Yankee, as the case might be; and