Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York

TRIAL
OF THE
OFFICERS AND CREW OF THE PRIVATEER SAVANNAH,
ON THE CHARGE OF PIRACY,
IN THE
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.
HON. JUDGES NELSON AND SHIPMAN, PRESIDING.
REPORTED BY A. F. WARBURTON, STENOGRAPHER, AND CORRECTED BY THE COUNSEL.
NEW YORK: BAKER & GODWIN, PRINTERS, PRINTING-HOUSE SQUARE, OPPOSITE CITY HALL. 1862.
CONTENTS.
PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS
During the month of May, 1861, the schooner Savannah, of Charleston, of about fifty-three tons burden, and mounting one pivot gun, was fitted out as a privateer, in the City of Charleston; and on the second of June, under the authority of a paper, purporting to be a letter of marque, signed by Jefferson Davis, she sailed from that port for the purpose of making captures among the commercial marine of the United States.