Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New YorkWarburton, A. F. (Adolphus Frederick)
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Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Warburton, A. F. (Adolphus Frederick)
Piracy -- United States; Privateering -- United States; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
On the following day (Monday, June 3), after having captured the brig
Joseph, laden with sugar, she was, in turn, herself taken by the United
States brig-of-war Perry, Captain Parrott, and carried to the
blockading squadron, off Charleston, to the commander of which
(Commodore Stringham) she was surrendered by her captors.
On the fifth of June the officers and crew of the Savannah were
transferred from the Perry to the United States steam-frigate
Minnesota, while the prize was taken in charge by a prize crew from the
Perry and sent to New York.
The Minnesota, with the prisoners on board, proceeded, on her way to
New York, to Hampton Roads, where the prisoners were transferred to the
steam-cutter Harriet Lane; and thence, on board that vessel, they were
conveyed to New York, at which port they arrived in the course of the
month of June.
On the arrival of the Harriet Lane at New York, the prisoners were
given in charge to the United States Marshal; and, on application of
the District Attorney of the United States, a warrant was issued, under
which the prisoners were committed for trial.
On the 16th of July following, the Grand Jury of the Federal Court,
then sitting in this city, came into court and presented a true bill
against the prisoners, a copy of which Indictment is as follows:--
CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, IN THE SECOND CIRCUIT.[1]
At a stated Term of the Circuit Court of the United States of
America for the Southern District of New York, in the Second
Circuit, begun and held at the City of New York, within and for the
District and Circuit aforesaid, on the first Monday of April, in
the year of our Lord 1861, and continued by adjournments to the
26th day of June in the year last aforesaid:
[1] At the request of the United States District Attorney,
the publishers state that the Indictment was mainly the work
of Mr. JOHN SEDGWICK, of the New York bar.
Southern District of New York, ss.:--The Jurors of the United
States of America, within and for the District and Circuit
aforesaid, on their oath, present:
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