Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-21
CONFEDERATE NAVAL HEROES.
Have, Not Been Accorded Their Need
of Praise by Current Writers OF the
History of Those Times.

History of Those Times.
The heroes of the Civil war who
wore the gray have been long and ably
eulogized, but rather scant has been
the praise of the Confederate naval
officers whose acts of heroism were
not so publicly recognized.
Judge Wright, of Jacksonville, Fla,
recently delivered an address in
Charleston, S. c., on the Confederate
Navy, of which the Baltimore Sun
says:
"It was the lecturers opinion that
history has made too little of the he
role achievements of the sea fighters
Of the Confederacy, who were at the
start without any proper ships and
without facilities for building them or
posed to them was the largest and
most powerful navy in the world To
show the difference between the two
branches of the Confederate service,
Is they are treated in history, Judge
Wright compared the written record of
brother Sidney Smith Lee. The lat
ter is scarcely known in history, al
Il ough Judge Wright declared his ca
reer prior to the outbreak of the war
was as brilliant as that of his more
distinguished brother, and that he
made a fine record in the Confederate
Navy. Without any proper appliances
for building ships, the Confederacv
constructed and commissioned the
first iron-clad that ever engaged in
sea fight. The Confederate Navy
also has the honor Of having invented
md first used the submarine torpedo.
1t was the first navy to sink a hostile
| ship with a submarine. That was the
Cnited States sloop-of-war Housaton-
&c which was sunk off Charleston by
the submarine H. L. Henley, under
command of Lieut.. George E. Dixon.
This brave officer and his crew went
willingly and cheerfully to certain
1eath and perished with their victim.
This was one of the most heroic
achievements recorded in naval his
5ory. Judge Wright discussed the bat
| tie between the Virginia and Monitor.
/ his battle, he said. He regarded the
| first days fighting as decidedly the
| more brilliant of the two The-4ee-
turer gave descriptions of the voyages
| If the Alabama, the Tallahassee and
| If Lieutenant Reads exploits on the
| of aT.lx G
If the cruises was perhaps that Of the
Shenandoah, which was burning ships
shree months after the close of the
var. She sailed $4,000 miles in thir-
cen months, being continuously out
If sight of land for four months, and
;ailing for eight months without drop
ling anchor. After capturing 3t
prizes Captain Waddell learned on Au
gust 2, 1865, that the war was over
He then sailed to England and sur
rendered his ship. Later on Captain
Waddell came to Maryland and be
came citizen of Annapolis. In l881
Il Governor Hamilton appointed him OF
i the oyster commission with Professor
Brooks and William Henry Legg. H
united with the former in giving t.
the state the magnificent report whicl
IS now the handbook and highest au
thority upon the subject treated.
The object of Judge Wright's lee
; lures is to raise funds with which t.
collect and publish the record of tn
heroic deeds of the officers and men O
the Confederate Navy. 1t is a worth
object, and such book may be mad
a record of thrilling adventure"