. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . in the fall and winter of 1861-62. By themiddle of ^Nlarch, 1862, the vessel was ready for sea. Beforethis, however, the new steamshij) had fallen under the suspicionof the American minister, who jn-essed the British Governmentto detain her, but so well had the secret of her ultimate use beenkept that nothing definite could be learned. The Florida had mucli ill-luck at first, and spent severalmonths in the harbor of INIobile. Late in February, 1863, sheleft Barbadoes for a cruise which proved to be one of the mostbrilliant in the h
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . in the fall and winter of 1861-62. By themiddle of ^Nlarch, 1862, the vessel was ready for sea. Beforethis, however, the new steamshij) had fallen under the suspicionof the American minister, who jn-essed the British Governmentto detain her, but so well had the secret of her ultimate use beenkept that nothing definite could be learned. The Florida had mucli ill-luck at first, and spent severalmonths in the harbor of INIobile. Late in February, 1863, sheleft Barbadoes for a cruise which proved to be one of the mostbrilliant in the history of the Confederate navy. From the lati-tude of New York city to that of Bahia, Brazil, this gallantvessel roamed the Western Atlantic. In JMay, the big Clarencewas taken off the Brazilian coast, and Lieutenant Charles , a most daring officer, was put on board with a started north and within a month had captured five ves-sels. Four of these Avere burned, and to the fifth, the schoonerTacony, Read transferred himself and his crew. [2921. COPYHIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO THE TUSCARORA NEAR GIBRALTAR, IN CHASE OF THE CONFEDERATE CRITISERS The r. S. S. Tuscarorawith other vessels during thelatter half of 1861 was scouringthe seas in search of theSumter—the first of theConfederate cruisers to get tosea, eluding the blockadingsquadron at the mouth of theMississippi, June 30,- was a oOO-ton passengersteamer with a speed of butten knots and had been declaredunfit for naval service by aboard of Confederate Raphael Semmes, uponseeing the report, said: Giveme that ship; I think I canmake her answer the a week after she gotaway, the Sumter had madeeight prizes. On Nov. 23dSemmes cleverly eluded theIroquois, then lying outsidethe harbor of St. Pierre,Martinique, and cruised toGibraltar. There the Sum-ter was blockaded by the ) I /; 7/ ^/yjj J jj / f/f ^/ ^ ^ff / J r^J-T-T^
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