War of the Rebellion: from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies and Navies
    

Extracts from the journal of Commander Semmes, C.S. Navy, commanding C.S.S. Sumter

Thursday, August 1.—Rain, rain, rain, with occasional intervals of sunshine. Receiving coal very slowly. The governor, as appears from the Gazette newspaper, took the opinion of the law officers of the Crown as to the legality of my being permitted to coal. A long editorial upon our arrival, and hints thrown out that we may be a “privateer.”
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