. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Government, renamed the Sumter,and refitted and armed imder the direction of CommanderSemmes. She cruised in the Gulf, the Caribbean Sea. and theAtlantic, and succeeded in burning six American vessels withtheir cargoes. Seventeen captures in all were made, of whichtwo Avere ransomed and seven were released in Cuban ]) Sumter finally found herself l)lockaded, early in 18()2. inthe harbor of Algeciras. Spain, by the Tuscarora, Kearsarge,and Ino. Her boilers were
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Government, renamed the Sumter,and refitted and armed imder the direction of CommanderSemmes. She cruised in the Gulf, the Caribbean Sea. and theAtlantic, and succeeded in burning six American vessels withtheir cargoes. Seventeen captures in all were made, of whichtwo Avere ransomed and seven were released in Cuban ]) Sumter finally found herself l)lockaded, early in 18()2. inthe harbor of Algeciras. Spain, by the Tuscarora, Kearsarge,and Ino. Her boilers were now worn out. and there was noojjportunity to repair them. So the vessel was sold, and wasturned by her new owners into a blockade-runner. This vessel, of all those available for the Confederate navy,alone seemed suited for commerce destroying, and consequentlythe authorities at Montgomery, early in May. 1861. determinedto send agents to Europe to obtain there what the South hadnot the means to provide. One of the first of the confidential emissaries employed bySecretary of the Navy Mallory was James D. Bulloch, a [290]. A. P. MASON The names of Mason and Slidell were linkedthroughout the war with the diplomatirefforts made in behalf of the Confederaeyat the courts of England and France. Themost concrete evidence of these efforts werethe vessels that were built in English andFrench shipyards and, eluding the vigi-lance of the two Governments, passed intotlie hands of the Confederates to striketelling blows at American commerce, thennext to the largest on the seas. Activelyopposed to Mason and Slidell was JohnBigelow, consul at Paris for the FederalGovernment during the war. His efforts tocircumvent the construction of Confederatecruisers were untiring and in great measure successful in keeping in check the foreigntendency to encourage the division of theUnited States. At the very outset of thisdiplomatic struggle the Federal Govern-ment narrowly escaped becoming involvedin war
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