February 5, 1865-- Part 2: Last Attempt Into Confederacy for the Chameleon "Was About to Perish at Last"

'As this was the last night during that moon, when the bar could be crossed during the dark hours, Wilkinson later wrote, "the course of the Chameleon was again, and for the last time, shaped for Nassau.

"As we turned away fro the land, our hearts sank within us, while the conviction  forced itself upon us, that the cause for which so much blood had been shed, so many miseries bravely endured, and so many sacrifices cheerfully made, was about to perish at last."

So Sad.  --Old B-R'er