Again, finding out about this blockade runner is not easy. However, I came across this entry in the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and the parameters seem to fit the hapless steamer Dan.
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Report of Acting Master John Collins, Jr., U.S. Navy, commanding U.S. schooner George Mangham, regarding the destruction of a blockade runner at Lockwood's Folly Inlet, January 7, 1864.
On the afternoon of the 7th, a sail was spotted and the George Mangham got underway and discovered it was a blockade runner being closely pursued by the U.S. steamers Aries and Montgomery and that it had run ashore. The U.S. ships sent boats in after her. These boats lost a number of men, including one boat from the Montgomery.
The next moring, the George Mangham was requested to cover a second landing at the blockade runner with the purpose of bringing her off the beach. The Mangham anchored close in and shelled the beach and rebel steamer at intervals during the morning.
--Old B-Runner
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