{"id":861,"date":"2014-07-10T04:08:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T04:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=861"},"modified":"2017-03-02T21:28:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T21:28:14","slug":"10-isabel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=861","title":{"rendered":"Isabel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The steamship <em>Isabel, <\/em>built in Baltimore in 1848 and owned by Moses David Morcedai of Charleston, S.C.,\u00a0\u00a0carried mail weekly from Charleston to Havana, and like George Law\u2019s United States Mail Steamship Company, was associated with filibuster activity, including transporting Lopez himself from Key West to Savannah after the Cardenas expedition. Law\u2019s U.S. Mail steamers regularly carried filibuster weapons, literature and men. At the outbreak of the Civil War, <em>Isabel<\/em> made several successful trips between Nassau and Charleston, before being captured by the steamship\u00a0<em>Santiago de Cuba,<\/em>\u00a0later purchased by Trujillo and Vining of New York, and renamed the <em>Ella Warley<\/em>.\u00a0On February 9, 1863, the <span style=\"color: #99575d;\"><a style=\"color: #99575d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1863\/02\/11\/news\/local-intelligence-disaster-sea-steamer-ella-warley-sunk-north-star-six-lives.html?pagewanted=all\"><em>Ella Warley<\/em> collided with the <em>North Star<\/em> and sank<\/a><\/span>. &#8220;Local Intelligence: A Disaster at Sea,&#8221; <em>New York Times<\/em>, February 11, 1863; \u00a0&#8220;<span style=\"color: #9e596c;\"><a style=\"color: #9e596c;\" href=\"https:\/\/cdnc.ucr.edu\/cgi-bin\/cdnc?a=d&amp;d=SDU18630309.2.9\">Loss of the Ella Warley,<\/a><\/span>&#8221; <em>Sacramento Daily Union<\/em>, March 9, 1863; Tom Chaffin, <em>Fatal Glory<\/em>, 174-175.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1549\" style=\"width: 1085px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/67Isabel-colour.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1549\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1549 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/67Isabel-colour.jpg\" alt=\"67Isabel colour\" width=\"1075\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/67Isabel-colour.jpg 1075w, http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/67Isabel-colour-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/67Isabel-colour-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1075px) 100vw, 1075px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <em>Isabel<\/em> (steam-sail). Edward McGregor, 1848, oil on canvas, Maryland Historical Society. http:\/\/www2.lib.unc.edu\/apop\/thishappyland.html?counter=67<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3792\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ella_warley_isabel.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3792\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3792 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ella_warley_isabel-1024x632.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ella_warley_isabel-1024x632.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ella_warley_isabel-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ella_warley_isabel-768x474.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steamship <em>Isabel<\/em>, Charleston, South Carolina, c.1855. Oil on canvas thought to be painted by Joseph B. Smith (1798-1876). The Charleston Renaissance Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The steamship Isabel, built in Baltimore in 1848 and owned by Moses David Morcedai of Charleston, S.C.,\u00a0\u00a0carried mail weekly from Charleston to Havana, and like George Law\u2019s United States Mail Steamship Company, was associated with filibuster activity, including transporting Lopez &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=861\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1920,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4M6TH-dT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}