The USS Niagara, Commodore Thomas T. Craven, captured the steamer Georgia off the coast of Portugal. The Georgia was the former commerce raider CSS Georgia, which had been sold to British merchants in June 1864.
American ambassador to England, Charles Francis Adams recommended that she be taken when she put to sea because of her previously belligerent status. The Georgia was later condemned by a prize court in Boston.
--Old B-R'er
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