April 4, 1864: USS Sciota Captures Blockade Runner

APRIL 4TH, 1864:  The USS Sciota, Lieutenant Commander Perkins, captured schooner Mary Sorley attempting to run the blockade at Galveston with a cargo of cotton.  She had previously been the U.S. Revenue Cutter Dodge, seized by the Confederates at Galveston at the war's outbreak.

--Old B-Runner