An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge: An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864Edge, Frederick Milnes
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An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge: An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864
Edge, Frederick Milnes
Alabama (Screw sloop); Kearsarge (Sloop); United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations
Raphael Semmes, Captain.
John M. Kell, First Lieutenant.
Arthur Sinclair, Jun., Second Lieutenant.
R. K. Howell, Lieutenant of Marines.
(This person is brother-in-law of Mr. Jefferson Davis.)
W. H. Sinclair, Midshipman.
J. S. Bullock, Acting Master.
E. A. Maffit, Midshipman.
E. M. Anderson, "
M. O'Brien, Third Assistant Surgeon.
George T. Fullam, Master's Mate, _Englishman_.
James Evans, "
Max Meulnier, "
J. Schrader, "
W. B. Smith, Captain's Clerk.
J. O. Cuddy, Gunner.
J. G. Dent, Quartermaster.
James McFadgen, Fireman, _Englishman_.
Orran Duffy, Fireman, _Irishman_.
W. Crawford, _Englishman_.
Brent Johnson, Second Boat Mate, "
William Nevins, "
William Hearn, Seaman, "
The last four belong to the "Royal Naval Reserve."
MOVEMENTS OF THE ENGLISH YACHT DEERHOUND.
That an English yacht, one belonging to the Royal Yacht Squadron, and
flying the White Ensign, too, during the conflict, should have assisted
the Confederate prisoners to escape after they had formally surrendered
themselves, according to their own statement, by firing a lee-gun,
striking their colours, hoisting a white flag, and sending a boat to the
Kearsarge--some of which signals must have been witnessed from the deck of
the Deerhound, is most humiliating to the national honour. The movements
of the yacht early on Sunday morning were as before shown, most
suspicious; and had Captain Winslow followed the advice and reiterated
requests of his officers when she steamed off, the Deerhound might now
have been lying not far distant from the Alabama. Captain Winslow however,
could not believe that a gentleman who was asked by himself "to save life"
would use the opportunity to decamp with the officers and men who,
according to their own act, were prisoners-of-war. There is high
presumptive evidence that the Deerhound was at Cherbourg for the express
purpose of rendering every assistance possible to the corsair; and we may
be permitted to doubt whether Mr. Lancaster, the friend of Mr. Laird, and
a member of the Mersey Yacht Club, would have carried Captain Winslow and
his officers to Southampton if the result of the struggle had been
reversed, and the Alabama had sent the Kearsarge to the bottom.
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