The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, November 09, 1916, Page 6, Image 6
RECALLS RARING FEAT.
"U-Boat Raid Revives Memory of Confederate
Exploit.
The consternation occasioned in
shipping circles by the raid of the
German submarine r-">3 is a remarkable
duplication, naval men say, of
what happened in 1863 at New York
and other Eastern ports when the
Tacony under the command of Lieut.
C. W. Read, of the Confederate
States navy, passed up the Atlantic
coast, burning and scuttling American
ships.
For two entire weeks Read continued
his foray on American commerce,
and notwithstanding that
more than 40 cruisers and chartered
vessels were sent out in search of
him, the intrepid Confederate was
only captured when he ventured into
the harbor of Portland, Maine, in an
attempt to cut out a steamer of that
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During a period of three days the
Tacony cruised off the Nantucket
shoals, and in that time burned a
full rigged clipper ship, bound from
Liverpool to New York, a bark and
a Liverpool packet. These three
craft were destroyed in the same locality
where the U-53 on Sunday last
sent six steamers to the bottom.
It was in May, 1863, when the
quest from Lieut. Read to be permitted
to take the Clarence, man her <
Confederate cruiser Florida, * being
off Cape St. Roque, Brazil, on a
cruise against American commerce,
captured the American brig, Clarence.
The Florida was commanded
by Commander J. N. Moffit. Serving
on the Florida as a watch officer was
Lieut C. W. Read. Commander Moffit
was about to burn the Clarence
when he was approached with a rewith
20 men from the Florida's
crew, and proceed to Hampton Roads,
Va., there to slip in Fortress Mon-i
roe and cut out a steamer. With the
steamer, Reed proposed to cruise
against American commerce. Failing
in the attempt to get by Fortress
Monroe, Read proposed as an alternative
then to proceed to Baltimore,
Md., and fire the shipping of that
port.
A Puny Force.
Commander Moffit approved of
Read's request, and transferred to
the Clarence 20 men and one howitt
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zer. With this new command Read
parted from the Florida and followed
three American vessels, learning
One month later he was off the Carolina
coast where he burned and bonded
three American vessels. Learning
from his captors that no craft were
permitted to pass Fortress Monroe;
- without strict examination. Learn-!
ing only in the event that the vessel
attempting to enter was laden for
government account, Read decided to
abandon his original idea and instead
to make a raid up the Atlantic coast, j
On June 12, when about 50 miles!
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the Chesapeake, the Clarence made'
false signals of distress to a fine bark
in the distance. The bark bore down
on the Clarence, and before her people
were aware of it, Read's men had 1
clambered on board and the bark was
their prize. She proved to be the Tacony,
an American craft. Read at once
saw that she was a fine craft, and
not being altogether satisfied with
the sailing qualities of the Clarence,
he burned the latter after first transferring
his howitzer a"nd crew to the j
Tacony. Before leaving the ground |
where the Tacony was captured Read |
gathered in three more craft, one of |
these, the schooner Schindel, he burn-,
ed. The others, a brig and schooner. I
he bonded. Finding himself encumbered
with many prisoners, Read'
transferred all to the last captured
schooner and sent them into Philadelphia.
The Tacony now stood off shore
laying a course to intercept the homeward
bound American ships engaged
in the West India trade. On June 15,
the Tacony being about 250 miles
east of Cape Charles, she burned a .
brig. Then she made for the Nantucket
shoals, where on June 20 and
21, she burned the three vessels above
named.
Eight in One Region.
On June 23, the Tacony was off the
. Georges bank, and in that locality
she burned eight American vessels.
By June 24 the Tacony had reached a
position to the northward of the
track of vessels bound from Europe
to the port of Boston, and when at a
point 110 miles east of Portland,
Maine, she-captured the schooner
Archer. Read appreciating that
many vessels must by this time be in
search of him, decided to quit the
. Tacony. This he did by transferring
to the Archer, after which the Tacony
was fired.
Read now planned to slip into
Portland, Maine, and cut out a steam
er at that port with the Archer without
being challenged and about 9
o'clock of June 26 he carried by
boarding the cutter Caleb Cushing.
This was a two masted sailing craft.
Before cutting out the Cushing, the
alarm was sounded and Read found
it expedient to get to sea as quickly
as possible. Manning the Cushing,
he made sail, and managed to clear
MILL MEN APPEAL FOR AID. j
Ask Governor's Assistance in Enforcing
Writs of Ejectment.
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Anderson, Nov. 4.?The management
of the Eq.uinox mills has appealed
to Governor Manning for assistance
in enforcing the writs of
ejectment that have been issued by
.Magistrate Cox against seven former
employes of the mills. These seven
are strikers and the management is
now seeking to cause them to vacate
their cottages in the mill village.
The strike occurred August 31 dnd
the machinery has been idle since
that date. Rules were served on ten
of the employes to show cause why
writs of ejectment should not be issued.
The strikers employed counsel
and the cases have been heard by
magistrate at the rate of one a day.
In the seven cases so far tried writs
of ejectment were issued. Two of |
the defendants have vacated their
cottages, one moving his household
goods himself and the other allowing
the magistrate's constable to remove
his, effects. When the constable
went to the mill village Thursday
to serve another one of the writs
he returned to the magistrate and reported
that he made no effort to remove
the household goods because of
the crowd of strikers who had congregated.
In company with another
constable Magistrate Cox's constable
went back to the mill village yesterday
to eject the man and they returned
declaring that they were resisted
by armed strikers. There are still
three cases yet to be heard by the
magistrate against Equinox strikers
and nineteen cases against Gluck
mill strikers. The Gluck and
Equinox mills are under the same
management.
Being unable to secure the enforcement
of the writs of ejectment as issued
by Magistrate Cox the management
has appealed to Governor Manning.
Not Long Enough to Tell.
Rain, rain, nothing but rain! The
weary traveler put his umbrella up
for about the sixteenth time that day.
He was getting very much annoyed,
for, try as he might, he could not prevent
the water from penetrating
through his clothes.
He stopped at length in a doorway,
hoping that very soon the rain would
abate. He espied a man next to him,
and turned for a chat.
"Beastly weather!" he remarked.
"Beastly!" exclaimed the man,
who was a resident of the town and
who was just as displeased at the
weather as the traveler. "Why, that
ain't the word for it."
"Been raining here long?" ventured
the traveler.
"I can't say exactly," said the
other, "You see, I've only lived here
five years."?Boston Herald.
the harbor, but by morning the wind
failed and the Cusning lay Decaimea
a few miles beyond the port. In this
predicament the Cushing was surrounded
by several excursion steamers
filled with troops from the port,
and at 11:30 a. m., of^June 27 Read
surrendered to the military on the
steamer Forest City.
The advent of the Tacony on the
American coast produced a record of
alarms seldom paralleled in history.
The navy department was deluged
with telegrams for a fortnight.
The commandants at the Philadelphia,
New York and Boston navy
yards were ordered to send out every
available craft, to charter and seize
if need be any suitable craft capable
of steaming within 4 8 hours. A
week after the first instructions were
sent out the navy department wired
to charter more vessels. In all more
than 40 steamers cruised in search
of the Tacony but not once was that
vessel sighted. The whole occurrence
indicated, naval men say, that
it is of little use to inaugurate a
search unless it is done in an intelligent
manner and there was every
indication that the search of the
Tacony in 1863 was without any central
control.
The Tacony affair has been used as
a striking illustration in naval problems
in matters having to do with
scout patrols. It was afterward
shown that several of the searching
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crait were ai uraes very ciu^se lu uici
Taconv, but owing to a well established
system of control the Confederate
was able to slip through the
cordon that it was attempted to form.
A year later the Confederate cruiser
Tallahasse made a dash out of Wilmington,
X. C., cruised as far north
as Halifax and after absence of almost
20 days until her return to Wilmington.burned
or scuttled 31 American
vessels. The work of destruction
was accomplished in ten days of
actual time, the remaining ten days
being spent in cruising.
Commander J. X. Moffit on the
Florida made a rapid passage over
the Atlantic coast, and then reached
over on a long leg to the Azores, He
also passed over the coast but at no
instance was the consternation created
so great as in the case of the raid
as made by Read with his 20 men in
the Tacony.
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