Adriatic Lost On Way to New York-- Part 3: Captured By the CSS Chickamauga

The captain of the Tallahassee, John Taylor Wood, ordered the Adriatic burned.  The passengers were still aboard and many didn't speak English, and feared they were to be burned as well.  It took a bit of explanation,but they found they were to be removed forts.

Wood convinced them they were in no danger

Despite being worried that he wouldn't have enough room on his ship, he managed to get them all aboard.When word of the Tallahassee's capture of the Adriatic reached New York, the city was in an uproar and Confederates were branded as pirates.

The North's commercial fleet scattered from the waters.

--Old B-Runner