. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . d,in violation of the neutrality regulations, per-mitted to remain thirty-six hours and to take onboard a three-months supply of coal. During thenext five months, comprising the spring and earlysummer of 1863, fourteen prizes were captured,one of which, the brig Clarence, was fitted out as atender and placed under the command of Lieu-tenant Charles W. Read. Proceeding northwardon a roving cruise in the Clarence, Read captured, 595 596 THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS. during tlie month, o
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . d,in violation of the neutrality regulations, per-mitted to remain thirty-six hours and to take onboard a three-months supply of coal. During thenext five months, comprising the spring and earlysummer of 1863, fourteen prizes were captured,one of which, the brig Clarence, was fitted out as atender and placed under the command of Lieu-tenant Charles W. Read. Proceeding northwardon a roving cruise in the Clarence, Read captured, 595 596 THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS. during tlie month, of June, five vessels off the coastof the United States, between the Chesapeake andPortland. The fifth was the schooner Taeony, andfinding her better suited to his purpose, Eeadburned the Clarence, after transferring his gunsand men to the new cruiser. His four other prizeswere also destroyed. During the next fortnight theTaeony made ten prizes. The last of these, theArcher, then became a ship-of-war, and the Taeonyand the other prizes were burned. Read now madea raid into Portland harbor and cut out the reve-. CAPTAIN JAMES D. BULLOCH, C. S. A PHOTOGRAPH. nue-cutter dishing, but the inhabitants of Port-land fitted out all the available steamers in port,and Eead was overtaken and captured. Soon after these events the Florida proceeded toBrest, where she remained for six months under-going repairs. She sailed in February, 1864,under the command of Captain C. M. Morris. Aftercruising for four months in the North Atlantic,she visited Bermuda, where she obtained suppliesof coal. During the summer she continued hercruise in the Atlantic, destroying merchantmen inthe neighborhood of the United States coast. On the 5th of October the Florida arrived atBahia, in Brazil, where she found the UnitedStates sloop-of-war Wadhusett, Commander N. Col-lins. She took a position near the shore abouthalf a mile from the Wadhusett. A Brazilian cor-vette, as a precaution, took a berth between
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