Florida, Lieutenant Morris, arrived in Bahia, Brazil, for provisions and coal. The gallant Captain later recalled: 'I considered my career upon the high seas closed by the loss of my ship, and had so informed Commodore Barton, who was our Chief of Bureau in Paris.' While his most celebrated deeds were behind him, Semmes was to play an able part in the final naval efforts of the Confederacy.Ĥ C.S.S. Alabama, embarked from England in steamer Tasmanian for Havana, from where he hoped to return to the Confederacy and report to President Davis for further assignment. After overpowering the crew and imprisoning them below, the Confederates took Ike Davis into Matagorda Bay, Texas.ģĜaptain Semmes, commander of the famous raider C.S.S. Beebee, CSN, had disguised themselves as passengers on board steamer Ike Davis and had captured her off Brazos, Texas. Walker, CSA, reported to the Confederate States War Department that 10 sailors and marines under Captain W. The crew managed to get ashore, but the woman, weighted down by $2,000 in British gold in a pouch around her neck, drowned.

Greenhow, fearful of being captured on the grounded runner with her important dispatches, set out in a boat for shore, but the craft over-turned in the heavy surf. Among the passengers on board Condor was one of the most famous Confederate agents of the war, Mrs. Niphon was prevented from destroying the steamer by intense fire from Fort Fisher. Niphon, Acting Master Kemble, ran British blockade runner Condor aground off New Inlet, North Carolina.

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