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the Sumter at sea alarm her captures James D. Bullock Laird's speech in the House of Commons the Alabama Semmes takes command the vessel and crew Banks's expedition Magruder at Galveston the steamer Hatteras sunk the Alabama not a pirate an Aspinwall steamer ransomed other captures prizes burned fight with the Kearsarge rescue of the men demand of the United States government for the surrender of the Drowning men reply of the British government sailing of the Oreto. Captain Maffit the ship half equipped running of the blockade her cruise capture and cruise of the Clarence the capture of the Florida Captain C. M. Morris the Florida at Bahia correspondence the Georgia Cruises and captures the Shenandoah Cruises and captures the Atlanta the Tallahassee the Edith. To maintain the position assumed by the Confederate States as a separate power among the nations, it was obviously necessary to have a navy, not only for the defense of their coast, but als