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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], The capture of the Georgia. (search)
stern was written in white letters, (apparently quite recently done,) "Georgia, Liverpool." Heavily laden boats were frequently passing from the smaller to the larger vessel. Preparations also appeared to be going on for hoisting in heavy weights. On the poop of the smaller vessel were several officers in American naval uniform and a number of men evidently belonging to the frigate, all fully armed. Boats were passing between the ships as long as we could discern them. I am, &c., George C. Sparkes, Commander Ellora, (s. s.) The Georgia, it will be recollected, was, for a length of time, engaged as a Confederate privateer. She arrived at Liverpool a few months ago, and was publicly sold to Mr. Bates, of that port, for £15,000 or £16,000; was subsequently taken up by the Portuguese Government for the conveyance of mails from Liverpool, Lisbon, to the Azores and back; and it appears she was in transit to those ports when her capture was made, with her cargo. The af