Confederate privateers and commerce raiders made life risky for Union shippers. At 5 p.m. on September 4, 1862, U.S. Navy Commander George Preble, the senior officer of the blockading squadron off Mobile, Alabama, spotted a strange sail approaching from the southeast. It was flying the British Union Jack, but that meant little, since flying false …
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