. Tales and traditions of the lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896 . %•<?. Running the Blockade. Blockade-Runners. T ins narrative would be incomplete without a moreextended reference to blockade-running on the CapePear during the Civil War, in which this writer, then alad of sixteen years of age, was engaged as purser onthe steamers North Heath, Lilian and SusanBeirne. The beach for many miles North and Southof Bald Head is marked still by the melancholy wrecksof swift and graceful steamers then employed in this 163 perilous enterprise. Some of the hundred vesselsengaged in this traffic ran between
. Tales and traditions of the lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896 . %•<?. Running the Blockade. Blockade-Runners. T ins narrative would be incomplete without a moreextended reference to blockade-running on the CapePear during the Civil War, in which this writer, then alad of sixteen years of age, was engaged as purser onthe steamers North Heath, Lilian and SusanBeirne. The beach for many miles North and Southof Bald Head is marked still by the melancholy wrecksof swift and graceful steamers then employed in this 163 perilous enterprise. Some of the hundred vesselsengaged in this traffic ran between Wilmington and theWest Indies with the regularity of mail-boats, andsome, even of the slowest speed, eluding the vigilanceof the Federal fleet, passed unscathed twenty, thirtyand forty times, making millions for their fortunateowners. One little beauty, the kSiren, a fast boat,numbered nearly fifty voyages. The success of theseships depended, of course, in a great measure, upon theskill and coolness of their commanders and pilots. Ifis noteworthy that those in ch
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