{"id":106577,"date":"2021-05-22T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=106577"},"modified":"2021-05-18T21:57:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T02:57:20","slug":"prize-captured-at-charleston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/prize-captured-at-charleston\/","title":{"rendered":"Prize Captured at Charleston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><br \/>\nMay 22, 1861<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, May 21.<\/p>\n<p>The ship <em>Gen. Parkhill<\/em>, of Liverpool for Charleston, has arrived in charge of a prize crew of the <em>Niagara<\/em>. She was spoken off Cape Romain the 12th, and ordered off. The next day she was captured in attempting to run the blockade. She was towed up to the Navy-yard.<\/p>\n<p>The prize ship is 600 tons, with a general cargo, a large portion being salt. It is suspected that arms and munitions of war are concealed under the salt.<\/p>\n<p>She was commanded by Capt. FORBES, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/murder-on-the-gen-parkhill\/\">the former captain being murdered<\/a> on the outer voyage by some of the crew.<\/p>\n<p>She had two Secession flags flying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, May 21 \u2014 P.M.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. FORBES denies having known anything of the blockade or display of secession flags. After his vessel was brought to by a shot from the <em>Niagara<\/em>, he was furnished with a passport to proceed to any port North. He hoisted a flag bearing the initials of the owners, and then the vessel was seized on the supposition that the flag was a signal to the shore. The secession flags which were on board belonged to PIKE, the former captain of the vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times May 22, 1861 PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, May 21. The ship Gen. Parkhill, of Liverpool for Charleston, has arrived in charge of a prize crew of the Niagara. She was spoken off Cape Romain the 12th, and ordered off. The next day she was captured in attempting to run the blockade. She was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":92551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-106577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-times"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-New-York-Times.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}