. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . s very little more than half this first prize captured ofi Charleston was the ship Gen-eral Parhhill that was taken by the Niagara. The second ofCharlestons prizes was the schooner Savannali that was takenby the United States brig Perry on June 3, 1861. She had beena ]jilot-boat before the war, and was not in any sense a blockade-rimner except for the fact that she had escaped from Charles-ton and made the open sea. It was intended that she shouldintercept American merchant vessels, and she was practicallya privateer. She h
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . s very little more than half this first prize captured ofi Charleston was the ship Gen-eral Parhhill that was taken by the Niagara. The second ofCharlestons prizes was the schooner Savannali that was takenby the United States brig Perry on June 3, 1861. She had beena ]jilot-boat before the war, and was not in any sense a blockade-rimner except for the fact that she had escaped from Charles-ton and made the open sea. It was intended that she shouldintercept American merchant vessels, and she was practicallya privateer. She had already made one or two prizes when,mistaking the Perry for a merchantman, she suffered theconsequences. The blockade had more to do with the block-ade-runners than with the privateers; the history of these lat-ter vessels, daring as any adventurers in the da5^s of Drakeor Frobisher, is of the greatest interest. The careers of theSumter and the brig Jefferson Davis, the Amelia, the Diane,the Petrel, the Bonita, the James Gray, and many others would [122 J. COPlRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PJS. A PURSUER OF MANY PRIZES—THE SANTLVGO DE CUBA
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