Blockade Runners at Little River Inlet-- Part 1: Was It or Was It Not Will?

From the August 3, 2022, My Horry News (South Carolina) "Blockade runners sought  refuge in Little River Inlet" by Steve Robertson.

The Little River flows into the Atlantic Ocean at the North Carolina-South Carolina border.

With Wilmington to the north and Charleston to the south coming under increasing Union blockade throughout the war, blockade runners increasingly turned to remote and isolated points like Horry County, South Carolina, to deliver their cargoes.

To protect them, Confederates set up small forts in Little River and Murrell's Inlet.  The remnants of one of them, Fort Randall, can be seen by alert boaters traversing the Intercoastal Waterway near Little River.

The Vol.  36, No. 4 edition on the Independent Republic Quarterly, reveal that a surprise attack on this fort ended with a Confederate rout by a small party of Union sailors.  (And, when I see a sneak attack in the area around Wilmington, North carolina, the name William Cushing immediately comes to mind.)

The fort was named for  Captain Thomas Randall, a large landowner who lived on the eastern end of  Little River Neck.

Was This a William Barker Cushing Production?  --Old B-Runner