N.C. Civil War Timeline for September 1864-- Part 1: Captures of Two Steamers and a U.S. Congressman

Taken from the North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial site.

SEPTEMBER 4--  Capture of steamer Elsie.  Hit the Elsie label to find out more about this blockade runner.  I have quite a few  entries about it.)

SEPTEMBER  8--  The only capture  of a United States Congressman during the Civil War at Coinjack in Currituck County.

George Washington Julian was taken prisoner when Captain J.N. Maffitt ordered pilot J.B. Hopkins to take a detail of twenty Confederate sailors to the Albemarle and Chesapeake  Canal and capture the small mail boat Fawn.  Julian was subsequently released in Elizabeth City.

SEPTEMBER  10--  Capture of steamer A.D. Vance.

--Old B-Runner