{"id":11449,"date":"2021-04-15T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2021-04-08T20:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T01:13:41","slug":"operations-in-florida-confederate-correspondence-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/operations-in-florida-confederate-correspondence-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Very unexpectedly I find myself a prisoner of war; Mail Steamer Galveston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">MONTGOMERY,<em> ALA., April <\/em>15<em>, <\/em>1861<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hon. L. P. WALKER, <em>Secretary of War, Montgomery:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SIR: Very unexpectedly I find myself a prisoner of war at this place. May I be permitted to request that you will do me the kindness to inform me of the grounds upon which I am so detained?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Very respectfully, your obedient servant,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>JOHN L. WORDEN,<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Lieutenant, U. S. Navy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>&#8212;&#8211;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">PENSACOLA,<em> April <\/em>15<em>, <\/em>1861<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100537 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Braxton-Bragg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"239\" \/>L. P. WALKER:<\/p>\n<p>Mail steamer Galveston from New Orleans this morning. I have taken possession of her. One United States ship arrived last night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>BRAXTON BRAGG,<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Brigadier-General.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>&#8212;&#8211;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">MONTGOMERY,<em> April <\/em>15<em>, <\/em>1861<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>General BRAGG, <em>Pensacola:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Merchant vessels belonging to citizens of United States must be permitted to <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103972 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Leroy-Pope-Walker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"297\" \/>depart without interruption. Strict surveillance, however, regarding dispatches from fort and fleet to Washington Government. Caution your own men against writing, or sending, as to what you are doing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>L. P. WALKER. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTGOMERY, ALA., April 15, 1861. Hon. L. P. WALKER, Secretary of War, Montgomery: SIR: Very unexpectedly I find myself a prisoner of war at this place. May I be permitted to request that you will do me the kindness to inform me of the grounds upon which I am so detained? Very respectfully, your obedient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":104369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[41],"class_list":{"0":"post-11449","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","8":"tag-operations-in-florida"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/John_Lorimer_Worden.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449","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=11449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}