This Date, Capture of U.S. Rep. George Washington Julian-- Part 2

Continuing with what 5fish wrote:

They captured the mail boat Fawn at the Currituck  Bridge  which is in Coinjack.  He then gave a Google Books site to find what was written there, but that spot would not come up for me.

No one knows why the Confederate sailors let Congressman Julian go after learning who he was.

Yea!! My mom's hometown had a Civil War moment!  Yea!!

Yea! Coinjack.

One reader wrote that perhaps the Congressman was released because of bribery or because the sailors did not want to get involved in  in a political mess by capturing a Union politician.

I would want to know why Maffitt sent them on the mission in the first place.  Did he know a Congressman was going to be on the Fawn?

--Old B-Runner