All things dealing with the Civil War Navies and actions along the coasts and rivers and against forts. Emphasis will be placed on Fort Fisher and all operations around Wilmington, NC. And, of course, the Blockade and Running the Blockade.
Monday, September 2, 2019
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
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