Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Schooner Savannah...
Warburton, A.F. Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Schooner Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, Hon. Judges Nelson and Shipman, presiding. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1862. Reprint Legal Classics Library, 1997. xxii, 385 pp. Full decorative calf, extra gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Silk ribbon bookmarker. Fine. $15. * The court case involving the Civil War ship the Savannah. During the month of May, 1861, the schooner Savannah, of Charleston, of about fifty-three tons burden, and mounting one pivot gun, was fitted out as a privateer, in the City of Charleston; and on the second of June, under the authority of "a paper, purporting to be a letter of marque, signed by Jefferson Davis," she sailed from that port for the purpose of making captures among the commercial marine of the United States. On the following day (Monday, June 3), after having captured the brig Joseph, laden with sugar, she was, in turn, herself taken by the United States brig-of-war Perry, Captain Parrott, and carried to the blockading squadron, off Charleston, to the commander of which (Commodore Stringham) she was surrendered by her captors.
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