Samuel de Champlain

By Alfred Lewis Pinneo Dennis, Augustus Freedom Moulton, Edward Bowdoin Neally, Francis L. Littlefield, Harry Rust Virgin, Victor Channing Sanborn, Henry Milner Rideout, Henry Otis Thayer, James Phinney Baxter, James Ware Bradbury, John Stackpole, Joseph Williamson, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Kittery (Me.), Maine Historical Society, Samuel Lane Boardman, Samuel Thomas Dole, Victor Hugo Paltsits, William Henry Looney

Samuel de Champlain
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The passenger steamer "Chesapeake" in regular service between New York and Portland, Me., captured by a group of men in the interest of the Confederate States, December 7, 1863. She was taken to Nova Scotia and quickly recovered by U.S. authorities.