{"id":107710,"date":"2021-06-03T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107710"},"modified":"2021-06-01T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:27:14","slug":"a-prize-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-prize-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prize Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Abstract of log of U. S. brig Perry, Lieutenant E.G. Parrott, U. S. Navy, commanding.<\/strong> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">June 3, 1861.\u2014(Latitude, 32\u00b047&#8242;; longitude, 78\u00b052&#8242;.) Boarded Bremen bark <em>Copernicus<\/em>, bound for Baltimore. She certified that she had been boarded by the <em>Minnesota<\/em> and warned not to enter any port south of the Chesapeake. At 2 saw light-house bearing N.W.by W. At 4 discovered a brig and a schooner; schooner a mile astern of brig. At 4:40 p.m., movements of the schooner being suspicious, gave chase to her. At 5 saw that schooner had a gun. At6:10 schooner hoisted colors and kept them up only for a moment, but we could not make them out. At 7:15 fired a shot ahead of her, but she showed no colors. At 7:50, it being quite dark and the brig out of sight, opened fire on the schooner, which she returned. Several of her shot passed over us. At 8:10 schooner ceased firing and we lost sight of her for a moment. It proved that she had lowered her sails to slow her submission. Wore around and passed near her without firing, asking if she had surrendered. Sent a boat on board of her with Lieutenant J. N. Miller; returned, bringing her captain, several officers, and the captain of the brig <em>Joseph<\/em>, of Rockland, Me., which brig had been captured by the schooner and was the vessel seen near her. At 12 m. she followed us, under the charge of Master&#8217;s Mate Palmer and 6 men. Found the prize to be the privateer <em>Savannah<\/em>, of Charleston, S. C., Captain T. H. Baker, sailing under a letter of marque, signed by Jefferson Davis. She left Charleston the 2d of June on her first cruise. During the action expended 14 shell and 2 round shot.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract of log of U. S. brig Perry, Lieutenant E.G. Parrott, U. S. Navy, commanding. June 3, 1861.\u2014(Latitude, 32\u00b047&#8242;; longitude, 78\u00b052&#8242;.) Boarded Bremen bark Copernicus, bound for Baltimore. She certified that she had been boarded by the Minnesota and warned not to enter any port south of the Chesapeake. At 2 saw light-house bearing N.W.by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":107711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-of-the-rebellion-a-compilation-of-the-official-records-of-the-union-and-confederate-armies"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/USS-Perry-by-Fritz-Muller.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107710","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=107710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}