The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

hands of the enemy. l at once went to Secretary Mallory and asked for further instructions. He ordered me to proceed to East River. Matthews County. vir- ginia, to capture d vessel and take my
 men out Finding no vessel there, went into Lancaster County and made my headquarters at Dividing Creek.
 Here we seized a canoe. Finding l was at place where I could not capture anything else, I ordered the men to cook three days rations. and the first night out we made Smiths Point where we remained during the next day, proceed
 ing on the following day to Barron Island, off the mouth os the Patuxent. where we stayed forty-eight hours. At eight bells on the following morning, April 1st. I shaped my course for the mouth of the Patuxent. 1 hove to and hailed the first vessel that came out. boarded and captured her. She proved to be the schooner St Mary's from Baltimore, bound for Point Lookout and St. Mary's. She was loaded with an assorted cargo, principally supplies for Point Lookout After heaving overheard the principal part of her deck load. and placing the prisoners in the main hatch under guard, we took off our uniforms and put on citizens clothes hugging the eastern shore. Half-past o'clock found us off Cape Henry light steering a course northeast. We sighted a fore and-aft schooner, gave chase to her and boarded her under full sail. She proved to be the schooner Emily, bound from Norfolk to New York, loaded with pine wood. I bonded the vessel for $25, 900 and paroled the officers and crew not to take up arms against the Confederacy placed prize crew aboard, and kept possession of her until o'clock that night. Then I recalled the crew. As soon as the Emily was hull down, I changed my course southeast. Having no nautical instruments on board, we were compelled to work the vessel by dead reckoning. We had only twenty gallons of water. We were eighteen days when we met the first sail. She turned out to be fruiter bound nortn- ward, and so we took no notice of her. At eight bells we met a large square rigged bark making towards the south west. at once set the Union colors in distress, and very much to my joy she hove to, and about 6 o'clock I was along side of her. After passing through the usual greetings. she proved to be the bark Statira, bound from New York to Matamoras. Mexico. with an assorted cargo. I at once put the first and second lieutenants and two seamen In boat and boarded her, taking possession ot the ship. the law of nations giving me the right to examine her papers. After having taken possession of the deck, left Peterborough in charge there. and proceeded below with the captain to ex- anime his papers. As soon as the cabin light struck my face the captain recog- nized me, and threw his arms about my neck. We had been old friends and acQuaintances, I told him, however, that l would not recognize my father under the circumstances, and insisted upon seeing his papers. They showed the vessel to be an American ship, sailing under an English register, which pro- tected her against capture by Confed- crate crews. The captain was a brave man, the imputation made by Eden borough that he crept under the table and begged for his life being a false hood Peterborough never got as far down as the cabin. The captain sup piled me with water and nautical in- struments. The sailors did not get drunk. though both crews cheered as we parted company.
 We arrived in the harbor of Nassau, N. F., on the 18th April, 1885, and re- mained in port, by permission of the Governor, Sir William Walker, forty eight hours. We then sailed for Egg and Royal Island, where we hove the vessel down, cleaned and watered her. By appointment, I met the ex-United States revenue cutter Petrol, Captain Gennene, of Mobile, commanding, and placed the cargo in her. After taking her water casks for ballast, and other material. I proceeded to sea. On June 17 I put in at Port Royal. Jamacia, for the purpose of landing some prisoners; on my return to the vessel, I found an official notification from her Majesty's admiral commanding the station, thas President Davis had been captured, and that General Lee had surrendered; that there was no longer a Confederate Gov ernment. and to continue cruising would be an act of piracy I at once took the vessel to Port Antonio. the north side of the Island of Jamaica. to send my crew to London, England, on board a sailing vessel that was loading with sugar. My officers and myself crossed the island in carriages to Kingston where we took passage for Liverpool on the Royal Mail steamer Hayti. In August. 1865. paid my officers and men off at Captain James H. Bullock's office. Rumford Court, Fumford Place. Liver pool. The officers I thus paid off were: Henry B. Peterborough, acting first lieu tenant John H. Murtaugh, second lieu tenant John Ayers Markand, purser; James H. Motion, surgeon.