. Running the blockade : a personal narrative of adventures, risks, and escapes during the American Civil War . ular ;always on the alert and ever ready to reach ahelping hand, he seemed to think no exertiontoo great to assist their operations, and manya smart vessel did his skill and activity snatchfrom the very jaws of the blockaders. Hecame to be regarded by the runners as theirguardian angel; and it was no small supportin the last trying moments of a run toremember who was in Fort Fisher. So much did we value his services and sograteful were we for them, that at my suggestionmy firm subseq
. Running the blockade : a personal narrative of adventures, risks, and escapes during the American Civil War . ular ;always on the alert and ever ready to reach ahelping hand, he seemed to think no exertiontoo great to assist their operations, and manya smart vessel did his skill and activity snatchfrom the very jaws of the blockaders. Hecame to be regarded by the runners as theirguardian angel; and it was no small supportin the last trying moments of a run toremember who was in Fort Fisher. So much did we value his services and sograteful were we for them, that at my suggestionmy firm subsequently presented him with abattery of six Whitworth guns, of which he wasvery proud ; and good use he made of them inkeeping the blockaders at a respectful were guns with a great range, whichmany a cruiser found to its cost when ventur-ing too close in chase down the coast. Lambwould gallop them down behind the sandhills,by aid of mules, and open fire upon the enemybefore he was aware of his danger. Neithermust I forget his charming wife (alas, nownumbered among the majority); her hospitality. PORTRAIT OF COLONEL LAMB. To face page 56. V A PURITAN MAIDEN 57 and kindness were unbounded, and many apleasant social evening have I and my brotherblockade-runners spent in her little cottageoutside the fort. The following extract from Southern His-torical Papers, written by Colonel Lamb a fewyears ago, will doubtless interest my readers;also the account, copied from the WilmingtonMessenger, of a meeting which took placelately between him and General Curtis at FortFisher. In the fall of 1857 a lovely Puritan maiden, still in herteens, was married in Grace Church, Providence, RhodeIsland, to a Virginia youth, just passed his majority, whobrought her to his home in Norfolk, a typical ancestralhomestead, where beside the white folks there was quitea colony of family servants, from the pickaninny just able tocrawl to the old gray-headed mammy who had nursed olemassa. She soon
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