Some More on Rep. G.W. Julian

From the HMdb.org site.  This marker is part of the Civil War Trails effort to mark lesser known Civil War sites.  "The Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal."

"U.S. Congressman George Washington Julian of Indiana, a Republican member of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, took the mail boat Fawn to Roanoke Island to find out whether sutlers there were price-gouging the soldiers to whom they sold goods.

"On February 9, 1864, on the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, Confederates attacked the ship, killed or wounded 7 people, captured 29 passengers, including Julian and burned the Fawn.  Julian was soon released at Elizabeth City and continued to Roanoke Island."

The marker is located at Coinjack, N.C., in Currituck County.

--Old B-Runner