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Identifier: navalhistoryofun02abbo (find matches)
Title: The naval history of the United States
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John), 1863-1934
Subjects: United States -- History, Naval To 1900
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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ts of the Confederacy from Europe would make the run through theblockading-fleet; so that the blockade-runners were seldom without twoor three passengers, poor though their accommodations might be. For thevoyage from Nassau to Wilmington, three hundred dollars passage moneywas charged, or more than fifty cents a mile. To guard against treachery,passage could only be obtained through the Confederate consul, who care-fully investigated the proofs of each applicants identity before issuing tohim a ticket. When the blockade-runner had taken her cargo and passengers aboard,and was prepared for her voyage, every one in the little town came down tothe docks to see her start. It was a populace strongly Southern in feelingthat filled the streets of Nassau, and nothing but good wishes wereto be heard on every side. Perhaps from a house on the hill-side, overwhich floated the Stars and Stripes, the United States consul might bewatching through a spyglass the movements of the steamer, and wishing
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MARINES SALUTING ON THE LANCASTEFT-OUR OLDEST NAVALVESSEL IN ACTIVE SERVICF BLUE-JACKETS OF 61. 641 in his heart that she might fall in with some Yankee cruiser ; butnevertheless, under his very eyes, the audacious racer slips out, and startson her stealthy voyage. On leaving the harbor, a quick run of fifteen ortwenty miles would be taken along the coast, to try the machinery. Greatcare would be taken to keep within British waters, lest some watchful gunboat should seize the prize thus early in her career. When every thingproved in good working trim, the little vessels prow would be turnednorthward, and the perilous voyage begun. For the first day, little dangerwas to be expected, and the voyage was generally so timed that the outerline of blockaders would be reached just after nightfall. A soldier goingto enlist in one of the Confederate cavalry regiments thus tells the storyof his evasion ot the blockade. After a favorable voyage we reached the desired point off Wilmingtonat the pr

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