The New York Times Opinion of the Blockade-Running Business: Some Success But Many Failures-- Part 1

From the September 13, 1864, New York Times "The Blockade-Running Business."

"The satisfaction with which we read that two noted blockade-runners, the Elsie and the Lord Clyde (Advance or A.D. Vance), have been captured within the past week, is sadly marred by the news that the Tallahassee is to leave Wilmington on Tuesday (to-night,) that another blockade-runner, the Edith, converted into a privateer (the CSS Chickamauga) is almost ready to follow the Tallahassee on the same errand, and that a dozen or more blockade-runners are in Halifax harbor, some of them bound for British ports with valuable cargoes of cotton."

The North Still Smarting from the Tallahassee's Cruise.  --Old B-R'er