Photo #: NH 59404
"The Attack on the Second Mate."
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1861,
depicting the recapture of the schooner S.J. Waring on
16 July 1861.
S.J. Waring had been captured by the Confederate privateer
Jefferson Davis in the Atlantic on 6 July 1861. Ten days
later, her African-American cook, William Tilghman, overwhelmed
and killed her Confederate prize crew with an ax. He brought
her into New York on 22 July 1861.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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