Hillsborough (NC) Recorder

July 10, 1861

Page 3

 

            THE PRIVATEER SAVANNAH—The following is from a Baltimore paper:

            The capture of the Savannah, and the placing of her crew in irons on board the Minnesota, is exciting considerable discussion.  A good deal of debate has arisen in relation to the disposition to be made of these prisoners.  The war press of New York claim that if they are to be considered pirates they should have been hung at the yard arm, and they demand, at all hazards, the execution of the death penalty.  The President, however, it is said, will treat them as prisoners of war.

 

[Transcibed by Sharon Strout]