The article was published in Polish. Below is an English translation of its opening. Wersja polska
The commerce raiding carried out by the Confederate navy during the Civil War shook maritime trade, ruined the whaling industry and caused a great stir among Northern public opinion. The exploits of raiders such as Alabama, Florida and Shenandoah are relatively well known, but other ships wrote no less interesting pages of history – among them the subject of this article, CSS Georgia.
On Saturday, 4 April 1863, CS Navy Midshipman James Morris Morgan, then in London, was ordered to go to a house in Little St. James Street and ask for a certain Mr Grigson for further instructions. The conspiratorial nature of the order did not surprise him. Since arriving in England in November 1862 as aide to Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, he had grown used to avoiding the agents hired by the United States consul. He hurried to the address and found a group of young men there. Among them he recognised Lieutenants Chapman and Evans, who had served under the already famous Raphael Semmes on his first cruiser, CSS Sumter. Chapman handed Morgan orders to report to Commander William Lewis Maury, a cousin of his current superior.
