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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAdmiral April Arkansas armed army attack battery battle blockade boats broadside Buchanan C. S. navy Capt captain captured cargo Carolina Charleston command Commodore Confederacy Confederate CONFEDERATE STATES NAVY Congress cotton crew deck defence destroyed dispatch Drewry's Bluff duty enemy enemy's engaged engines expedition Farragut Federal fleet fight fire flag Flag-officer force Fortress Monroe forts frigate Galveston gunboats guns Hampton Roads harbor Harriet Lane iron iron-clad Island James River John killed land letter Lieut lieutenant Louisiana Mallory March ment Merrimac Midshipman miles Mississippi Mobile Monitor naval Navy Department navy-yard night Norfolk officers Orleans passed Patrick Henry Pensacola pilot Point port prisoners rebel received Richmond rifled Roanoke Island Savannah schooner Secretary sent Sewell's Point shell ship shore shot side South South Carolina squadron steam steamer struck Sumter surrender Tatnall tion torpedo troops United vessels Virginia wounded yards Popular passagesPage 58 - Enemy's Flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective, that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy. Page 454 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Page 68 - President of the United States of America to all who shall see these presents, greeting... Page 436 - ... be duly warned by the commander of one of the blockading vessels, who will indorse on her register the fact and date of such warning ; and if the same vessel shall again attempt to enter or leave the blockaded port, she will be captured and sent to the nearest convenient port, for such proceedings against her and her cargo as prize as may be deemed advisable. Page 55 - Whereas the laws of the United States have been, for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law... Page 76 - A just regard to humanity and to the honor of this Government now requires me to state explicitly that, painful as will be the necessity, this Government will deal out to the prisoners held by it the same treatment and the same fate as shall be experienced by those captured on the Savannah... Page 446 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC. Page 53 - States, and the instructions which shall be given them according to law for the regulation of their conduct, and will satisfy all damages and injuries which shall be done or committed contrary to the tenor thereof by such vessel during her commission, and to deliver up the same when revoked by the president of the Confederate States. SEC. .5. That all captures and prizes of vessels and property shall be forfeited and shall accrue to the owners... Page 71 - And I hereby proclaim and declare that if any person, under the pretended authority of the said States, or under any other pretence, shall molest a vessel of the United States, or the persons or cargo on board of her, such person will be held amenable to the laws of the United States for the prevention and punishment of piracy. Page 596 - States, do hereby give our solemn parole of honor that we will not hereafter serve in the armies of the Confederate States, or in any military capacity "whatever, against the United States of America, or render aid to the enemies of the latter, until properly exchanged in such manner as shall be mutually approved by the respective authorities. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarTHE CIVIL WAR** DIARY** ofGeneral Josiah Gorgas References from web pagesJSTOR: A History of the Confederate Navy. Battle of Memphis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Civil War: Navy NOTICE TO BORROWERS In presenting this thesis as partial ... Bibliographic information
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