 The rest, including Perry, were put in irons and taken to Philadelphia, where they, like the crew of "Savannah," were to be tried for piracy.Through much of the first year of the war, the government in Washington continued to regard the conflict as merely an insurrection, and that the Confederate government had no legal standing.According to the view of the Lincoln administration, the letters of marque issued by Jefferson Davis or the seceded states had no legal force, and the privateersmen who relied upon them did not represent a legitimate authority.