150 Year Ago: September 1st, 1863: Regulations for Blockade-Runners

SEPTEMBER 1ST:

 Major General Whiting at Wilmington, issued regulations for blockade-runners. The specific instructions were intended to prevent Union spies in town from gaining information of use.

**  Commander Catesby ap R. Jones, commanding the the Confederate naval gun foundry and ordnance works at Selma, Alabama, ordered a small quantity of munitions to Admiral Franklin Buchanan for the defense of Mobile.

Munitions were becoming increasingly scarce with most on hand being shipped to Charleston.

--Old B-R'er