. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COLONEL CORCORAN, WHO WAS CHOSEN BY LOT FOR DEATH Around the tall, commanding figure of Colonel Michael Corcoran, of the New York Fighting Sixty-ninth, a storm raged in the summer of 1861. Corcoran had been chosen by lot to meet the same fateas Walter W. Smith, prize-master of the schooner Enchantress, with a prize-crew from the Confederateprivateer Jeff. Davis, who was captured July 22, 1861, tried for piracy in the United States Court in Phila-delphia, October 22d-2
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COLONEL CORCORAN, WHO WAS CHOSEN BY LOT FOR DEATH Around the tall, commanding figure of Colonel Michael Corcoran, of the New York Fighting Sixty-ninth, a storm raged in the summer of 1861. Corcoran had been chosen by lot to meet the same fateas Walter W. Smith, prize-master of the schooner Enchantress, with a prize-crew from the Confederateprivateer Jeff. Davis, who was captured July 22, 1861, tried for piracy in the United States Court in Phila-delphia, October 22d-28th, and convicted of the charge. Soon after the news of his conviction reached Rich-mond, Acting Secretary of War J. P. Benjamin issued an order to Brigadier-General John H. Winder to chooseby lot, from among the Federal prisoners of war, of the highest rank, one who was to receive exactly thesame treatment as prize-master Walter W. Smith. He also ordered that thirteen other prisoners of war, thehighest in rank of those captured by the Confederate forces, should be served as the crew of the Sarannah. Itfell to Colonel Co
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