Volume 2 / Part 4 — CHAPTER XXX.
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Naval Affairs (continued).—Necessity of a Navy.—Raphael Semmes.— The Sumter.—Difficulties in creating a Navy.—The Sumter at Sea.— Alarm.—Her Captures.—James D. Bullock.—Laird's Speech in the House of Commons.—The Alabama.—Semmes takes Command.—The Vessel and Crew.—Goes to Sea.—Banks's Expedition.—Magruder at Galveston.—The Steamer Hattaras Sunk.—The Alabama not a Pirate.— An Aspinwall Steamer ransomed.—Other Captures.—Prizes burned.— At Cherbourg.—Fight with the Kearsarge.—Rescue of the Men.— Demand of the United States Government for the Surrender of the Drowning Men.—Reply of the British Government.—Sailing of the Oreto.—Detained at Nassau.—Captain Maffit.—The Ship Half Equipped.—Arrives at Mobile.—Runs the Blockade.—Her Cruise.— Capture and Cruise of the Clarence.—The Captures of the Florida.— Captain C. M. Morris.—The Florida at Bahia.—Seized by the Wachusett.—Brought to Virginia and sunk.—Correspondence.—The Georgia.—Cruises and Captures.—The Shenandoah.—Cruises and Captures.—The Atlanta.—The Tallahassee.—The Edith.