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“…Christmas at Charleston.”
“…thrown overboard by a sudden swell.”
“…a hunt was on for the Alabama…”
“…an entirely black crew.”
“…the steamer Tasmanian…”
“…boarded with his cousin.”
“…promoted to commander…”
“…a rebuilt merchant vessel…”
“Off the coast of Ushant…”
“…a crew of Englishmen.”
“They loaded guns…”
“…Lewis raised the Confederate colors…”
“…divided into shares…”
“He arranged passage home…”
“…the Dictator…”
“…lighting her captain’s quarters.”
“…Christmas at Charleston.”
Letter from William L. Maury to Anne Fontaine Maury, December 25, 1862, held in the Maury Family Collection at the Special Collections department of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“…thrown overboard by a sudden swell.”
Letter from William L. Maury to Anne Fontaine Maury, Late December, 1862, held in the Maury Family Collection at the Special Collections department of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“…a hunt was on for the Alabama…”
Letter from William L. Maury to Robert H. Maury, January 4, 1863, and a letter from William L. Maury to Anne Fontaine Maury, Late December, 1862, held in the Maury Family Collection at the Special Collections department of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“…an entirely black crew.”
Letter from William L. Maury to Ann Fontain Maury, January 4, 1863, held in the Maury Family materials at the Special Collections department of the Swem Library at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
“…the steamer Tasmanian…”
Letter from William L. Maury Ann Maury, January 29, 1863, held in the Maury Family Collection at the Special Collections department of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“…boarded with his cousin.”
Letter from William L. Maury Anne Fontaine Maury, February 3, 1863, held in the Maury Family Collection at the Special Collections department of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“…promoted to commander…”
See “…sent to Wilmington,” above.
Letter from Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory to William L. Maury, March 26, 1863, held in the Maury Family Collection at the Special Collections department of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“…a rebuilt merchant vessel…”
MORGAN, J. M. (1917). Recollections of a Rebel Reefer...With illustrations. Houghton Mifflin Co: Boston & New York, pp. 113-14.
“Off the coast of Ushant…”
MORGAN, J. M. (1917). Recollections of a Rebel Reefer...With illustrations. Houghton Mifflin Co: Boston & New York, p. 115.
“…a crew of Englishmen.”
A duplicate of the original crew roster of the Georgia—tellingly, the age and “where born” categories are left blank for the entire crew. As will be seen in a later chapter, the nationalities of the crews of Confederate privateers would weigh heavily on European countries considering whether to give them safe harbor for coal and repairs. A separate log book, containing a letter, reveals the origin for each crew member.
The original crew roster was auctioned to a private buyer.
Letter from William L. Maury to James Bulloch, April 9, 1863, included in an original log book of William L. Maury, in the possession of Russell Hooper, to whom I’m very grateful for his wisdom and his generosity with his substantial collection.
“They loaded guns…”
MORGAN, J. M. (1917). Recollections of a Rebel Reefer...With illustrations. Houghton Mifflin Co: Boston & New York, pp. 115-16.
“…Lewis raised the Confederate colors…”
MORGAN, J. M. (1917). Recollections of a Rebel Reefer...With illustrations. Houghton Mifflin Co: Boston & New York, pp. 116.
“…divided into shares…”
MORGAN, J. M. (1917). Recollections of a Rebel Reefer...With illustrations. Houghton Mifflin Co: Boston & New York, p. 120.
“He arranged passage home…”
MORGAN, J. M. (1917). Recollections of a Rebel Reefer...With illustrations. Houghton Mifflin Co: Boston & New York, pp. 116.
“…the Dictator…”
MORGAN, J. M. (1917). Recollections of a Rebel Reefer...With illustrations. Houghton Mifflin Co: Boston & New York, pp. 117-18.
April 25 entry of the original Georgia log book of William L. Maury, in the possession of Russell Hooper, to whom I’m very grateful for his wisdom and his generosity with his substantial collection.
“…lighting her captain’s quarters.”
MORGAN, J. M. (1917). Recollections of a Rebel Reefer...With illustrations. Houghton Mifflin Co: Boston & New York, pp. 119.