Recollections of a Rebel reefer (1917) (14765179852)

Identifier: recollectionsofr4980morg (find matches)
Title: Recollections of a Rebel reefer
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Morgan, James Morris, 1845-1928
Subjects: Georgia (Confederate cruiser)
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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It appears on a headstone in the Methodist Cemetery, St. Louis: — Here lize a stranger braiv, Who died while fightin the Suthern Confederacy to save Piece to his dust. Braive Suthern friend From iland lo You reached a Glory us end. We plase these flowrs above the strangers hed, In honer of the shiverlus ded. Sweet spirit rest in Heven Ther I be know Yankis there. When I returned to the McRae, I found great changes had occurred during my two weeks absence. All idea of running the blockade and going to sea as a cruiser had been abandoned, and judging from my later experience in a commerce destroyer it was well that the intention had been abandoned, for with her limited coal capacity, and her want of speed owing to the small power and uncertain humor of her gear engines, it is doubtful if she would have lasted a month in that business. I now found her much changed in outward appearance. The tall and graceful spars, with the exception of the lower masts, had disappeared. With the exception of Captain
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Island Number io 6i Huger, Sailing Master Read (Savez), and Midshipman Blanc, all of the line officers, whom I loved so dearly, were detached. Lieutenant Warley was to command permanently the Manassas; Lieutenant Eggleston and Midship-man Marmaduke were to join the Merrimac at Norfolk; Lieutenant Dunnington was to command the gunboat Ponchartrain; Midshipman Sardine Graham Stone was to go to the cruiser Florida; and Midshipman Comstock was to go to the gunboat Selma, on board of which he was cut in two by a shell at the battle of Mobile Bay; and I was appointed aide-de-camp to Commodore HoUins, whose flag-ship the McRae was to be. Three river steamboats had been converted into men-of-war by having their luxurious cabins removed and their boilers protected by iron rails. They each carried four guns— three forward and one aft — and there had also been built (from designs by a locomotive roundhouse architect, I suppose) the most wonderful contraption that ever was seen afloat, called the Livi