Keep Those Whitworths Out of Wilmington

AUGUST 26TH, 1863:

Secretary Welles ordered the USS Fort Jackson to cruise the paths taken by blockade-runners between Bermuda and Wilmington.

Information had reached him that two large Whitworth guns, weighing 22 tons each, had been carried to Bermuda by the blockade-runner Gibraltar, formerly the CSS Sumter, and he was hoping to intercept them at sea before Col. Lamb found use for them at Fort Fisher.

And, He Sure Would. --Old B-Runner