150 Years Ago: September 25th-27th, 1863: Capturing Runners

SEPTEMBER 25TH:

The USS Tioga captured steamer Herald near Bahamas with cargo of cotton, turpentine and pitch. This would be an outbound blockade-runner with a cargo like this. The Union not only had ships off the Confederacy, but also plying the sea lanes between Southern ports and transhipment points.

SEPTEMBER 27TH:

USS Clyde seized schooner Amaranth off the Florida Keys with a cargo including cigars and sugar. An inboud blockade-runner with a cargo like that, probably out of Havana.

--Old B-Runner