Posted on 09/29/2024 6:44:12 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
From the Richmond Dispatch.
During the month just passed there have appeared from time to time, many items about the Confederate cruiser Tallahassee, and extracts from the Northern papers regarding the doings of the pirate Tallahassee have been extensively copied. Perhaps the main facts have thus been made public, but only one side of the story has been told, and that, with all the exaggeration and falsehood of particular instances is incomplete. In order to make known the true story, taking into consideration at the same time the limited space allowed in a dally paper, I cannot do better than transcribe the narrative from my diary, written from day to day during the cruise. This I do literally and without alteration, which fact will be sufficient apology for its faults.
STARTING ON THE CRUISE.
AUGUST 6. -- This morning we were still aground on the "rip," the draft of water being too great to pass the eastern bar at these tides. The steamers Flamingo, Caps Fear and Yadkin were made fast to us at high tide, and in a short time we were afloat steaming down toward Fort Caswell, preparatory to a trial of the other bar. All day long we lay at anchor off Smithville, a village somewhat visited in years gone by as a Summer watering-place but now looking in the last stages of chronic dilapidation. About 8 o'clock came the boatswain's pipe to "up anchor." Rounded the fort at 9 and at 10 were on the bar.
At this hour the moon had gone down, a few black clouds floated in the sky, and the stars shone dimly through a thin gauze-like vapor that rose from the water. A fair night to run out. After passing the bar, came upon two blockaders, one on either bow,
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