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104 Engineer James Hood, and Midshipmen Dalton, Sinclair, Gary, Pegram, Hamilton, Thomas, and McClintoc. She made a short voyage to England and back, in the course of which she burned the ship Harvey Birch and the schooner Robert Gilfillan. She was afterward engaged as a blockade runner, and was eventually destroyed by the United States monitor Montauk.

The Georgia was bought at Dumbarton, Scotland, for the Confederate government. She was commissioned off Ushant in April, 1863, by Com. William L. Maury, with the following list of officers: Lieuts. R. T. Chapman, Evans, Smith, and J. H. Ingraham; Passed Midshipman Walker; Midshipman Morgan; Paymaster Curtis; Surgeon Wheeden, and Chief Engineer Pearson. She cruised in the Atlantic, ran over to the coast of Brazil, and thence to the Cape of Good Hope. On the 28th of October she anchored at Cherbourg, having taken 9 prizes. Here Captain Maury turned over the command to Lieutenant Evans, but she made no other cruise.

The Tallahassee was the blockade runner Atlanta. She was converted into a man-of-war, and on August 6, 1864, sailed from Wilmington, N. C., for a cruise off the coast. Her officers were: Capt. John Taylor Wood; Lieuts. W. H. Ward, M. M. Benton, and J. M. Gardner; Master Alex Curtis; Engineers J. W. Tynan, C. H. Leroy, E. G. Hall, J. F. Green, J. J. Lyell, H. H. Roberts, and R. M. Ross ; Paymaster C. L. Jones ; Asst. Surg. W. L. Sheppardson; Boatswain Cassidy ; Gunner Stewart; Master's Mate C. Russell, and Lieut, of Marines Crenshaw. She cruised along the northern coast as far as Maine. On the 18th of August, Wood anchored at Halifax, but could only obtain coal enough to take the vessel back to Wilmington. On the 2 5th she arrived at that port, having in her short cruise burned 16 vessels, scuttled 10, bonded 5, and released 2 a remarkable record.

The Chickamauga was the small blockade runner Edith. She sailed for a cruise on the coast in the fall of 1864 un-