Movements of Blockade Runners September 1864

From the September 24, 1864, New York Times  "Movements of Blockade-Runners."

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Thursday , Sept. 22

The blockade-runners Lady Sterling and Armstrong cleared for Bermuda yesterday.

The blockade-runner Little Hattie, which sailed  a few days since, returned to-day.

Run It In, Run It Our.  --Old B-R'er

Movements of Blockade Runners December 1864

From the December 25, 1864, New York Times  "From Havana.; Movements of Blockade-Runners."

The steamer Corsica , from Havana via Nassau, arrived here this morning.

A Gen. LEE is reported by the Nassau Guardian to have left Nassau on the 15th inst., in the steamer Darien for Bermuda.

The blockade-runners Old Dominion, Wild Rover,  Little Hattie, Banshee and Agnes E. Fry had arrived from Wilmington; the Syren had arrived from Charleston; the Gen, Marmion and Kenilworth had returned in distress; and the Virginia, Hansa, Ella, Kate Gregg, Charlotte, Will O' the Wisp, Stormy, Petrel, Little Hattie, Syren and Star  had sailed  to run the blockade.

--Old B-Runner

Army Transport B.M. Runyan-- Part 2: A Problem With Date of Sinking and the Name

From the July 27, 1864, New York Times  "FROM THE MISSISSIPPI.; Sinking of the Steamer B.M. Runyon-- Fifty Lives Lost."

Cairo, Illinois,   Monday, July 25, 1864.

The steamer  James White from New Orleans arrived with the news of the sinking.

"She reports that the steamer B.M. Runyon (Civil War Naval Chronology, CWNC, had it spelled Runyan), from Natches, struck a snag off Griffith's Landing, fifteen miles below Greenville, Mississippi, on the 21st instant (CWNC has it sinking on July 23, 1864) and sank to the hurricane roof in about five minutes.

"She had near 600 people on board, including 440 of the Tenth Missouri Cavalry, 50 refugees, some furloughed soldiers and quite a number of cabin passengers."

--Old B-Runner                                                                

Death of Cmdr. Maxwell Woodhull-- Part 3: Received the Whole Charge"

From the  Feb. 20, 1863, New York Times.

This afternoon, while General BUTLER, in company with the Committee of Reception and Gen. SCHENCK and Staff, were visiting forts around the city (Baltimore), a most melancholy accident took place, which cast quite a gloom over the party.

"They had visited Forts McHenry and Federal Hill, and had gone to Fort Marshall, at the eastern extremity of the city.  Here a salute was fired.  Just as the General and his party had passed along the ramparts, out of range of the gun, the gunner, supposing that the whole party had passed, fired a thirty-two pounder.

"But, most unfortunately, just as the gun was discharged, some of the party, who had loitered behind, came up, and one of them, Commander Maxwell Woodhull, U.S.N., received the whole charge, which blew the flesh from his lower limbs whole and caused his death in a few moments."

An Unfortunate Accident.  --Old B-Runner

The Piratical Capture of the St. Nicholas-- Part 1: Disguised as a Woman

From the July 2, 1861, New York Times.

This past Tuesday, June 28, I wrote about the seizure of the Union steamer St. Nicholas.  Here is what the New York Times had to say about it back then.

PIRATICAL CAPTURE OF THE STEAMER ST. NICHOLAS

"The seizure of the steamer St. Nicholas, from this post as mentioned in our Washington dispatches, proves to have been a bold piratical expedition.

"When the steamer left here on Friday evening, she had on board about 50 secession passengers, most of whom were disguised as mechanics, going to Points on the Maryland shore of the Potomac.

"Among the number was Capt. HOLLINS, late of the United States ship Susquehannah, who was disguised, some accounts say, as a woman, and retired to a state room immediately on going on board the steamer.

I Like How They Considered It a Piratical Act.    --Old B-R'er