AUGUST 24TH, 1864: The USS Keystone State, Commander Peirce Crosby, and USS Gettysburg, Lt. R.H. Lamson, captured the blockade-runner Lilian off Wilmington with cargo of cotton. Both ships fired on the Lilian and when she finally hove to she was in sinking condition.
Crosby managed to repair the damage and sent her to Beaufort. She was later purchased by the Union Navy and assigned to the squadron under the same name.
--Old B-Runner
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