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Legal ruling on pirate captures and Confederate status
A lengthy judicial opinion examines whether Confederate privateering and the port blockade as wartime actions create a de facto government, and whether capture of the John Welsh constitutes piracy or a prize of war. The opinion argues secession did not dissolve the Union, rejects recognizing the Confederacy as an independent nation, and treats rebel captures within the war powers rather than formal piracy.
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