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board. . . . He went on board as ordered, and soon after the
steamer sailed in all haste seaward.2 . . . Smith, the de-
serter, was tried regularly the next day by a general court martial
and being convicted of deserting to the enemy, was publicly shot
in Galveston in accordance with his sentence.26
ship, when the boat was hailed and the pilot ordered to come on
When the repairs were completed on the Harriet Lane, General
Magruder issued an order for all master mariners and seamen to
report for duty on board for a cruise against the enemy at sea.
A protest was at once filed by the prize commissioners, based on
the fact that no adjudication of prize court condemning her had
yet been reached, and such a, cruise consequently would be piracy,
under the law of nations. This being followed by like protests
from all the master mariners of the port, the general dropped the
matter, and the vessel was taken up the bay for safe keeping,
pending such judicial action. She was therefore stripped of her
armament, spare water tanks, etc., to reduce her draft, and taken
up the channel. She grounded at Red Fish reefs, and was de-
layed two weeks, until a dredge boat could cut a. channel into
which she was hauled by the steamboat Island City. She finally
arrived at Cloppers, Bar, near the mouth of Buffalo Bayou, below
Houston, at the head of Galveston Bay.2 Soon afterwards the
decree of the prize court condemning her as a prize of war and
the lawful property of the Confederate States was duly rendered;
and on the 10th of March, Captain Thos. C'. Saunders and crew
were paid off and discharged at Houston and the command of the
Harriet Lane transferred to Captain Barney of the C. S. Navy,
under orders of the Secretary of the Navy.
The vessel was then taken back down the channel to Galveston
and refitted for sea, but not armed. Loaded with cotton, she
slipped through the blockading fleet one dark night and headed
for Havana, Cuba. As soon as morning came, her absence from
Galveston harbor was noted-for the Federal officers with their
25E. J. Davis in a personal letter to W. P. Doran afterwards described
this incident and stated that Captain Payne was released upon parole
in New Orleans.
2~Magruder to Cooper, February 26, 1863, Off. Recs., Ber. I, Vol. XV,
219-920.
27Andrew Thompson, Deposition before Prize Commissioners, 1863,
loe. oit.374
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