APRIL 19TH, 1865: Captain Benjamin F. Sands, commanding ships of the West Gulf Blockading squadron stationed off Galveston, Texas, reported that the blockade runner Denbigh had grounded on the Galveston bar attempting to put to sea under the cover of night.
"She succeeded in getting off by throwing over some 200 bales of cotton, about 140 which were recovered by the Cornubia and Gertrude...." Sands added that Denbigh was "next seen under Fort Point and returned to the city."
However, the well-known blockade runner, which Admiral Farragut had been especially anxious to capture prior to the fall of Mobile when the Denbigh shifted operations to Galveston, shortly succeeded in running through the blockade and put into Havana May 1st.
--Old B-R'er
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