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 | | Captain [John Newland] Maffit, the former commander of the Florida is now in a Confederate port, in command of a steamer owned by the State of Georgia - one of the fastest vessels afloat and in every way adapted to the purposes of a blockade runner. |
 | | The inscription also indicates he was an Acting Master's Mate aboard the CSS Florida, born in 1842 and died in 1907, which may actually be Lionel Vogel, the stone being inscribed in error. |
 | | The following account originally dictated to the Columbus, South Carolina, Carolinian, by Acting Master's Mate Lionel Vogel, formerly of the Confederate cruiser Florida, was reprinted in the Atlanta, Georgia Southern Confederacy of June 17, 1864. |
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