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464 Chronicles of the Cape Fear Rwer

known prison-pens so dreaded by those who afterwards realized
all their horrors. We were, accordingly, marched down to the
marshal’s headquarters in Burton’s old theatre, on Chambers
Street, opposite City Hall Park, where we were ordered to select
our baggage and prepare to be searched for contraband articles.
The entire office force of clerks had been drawn by curiosity
from their desks to the other end of the large room, where the
inspection was going on; and, while my baggage was being exam-
ined by an officer, I asked him if he knew who were to be re-
leased ; to which he replied that he did not know, but that the
list of those who would be released could be found in a large
book on that desk, pointing his finger to the other end of the
room. When his inspection was completed, I asked if I might
go and read the names to satisfy my curiosity. He said there
could be no harm in doing so, and asked if I could read. I said,
yes, that I thought I could make out the names. Whereupon,
I walked with forced indifference to the desk, and found a big
journal laid open upon it, containing the names of the men
belonging to the Ella and Anme’s crew who were to be dis-
charged. This did not interest me; and looking further down
I saw, also, the names of those of my own ship who were to be
released, but from the top to the bottom there was no George C.
McDougal. You may depend upon it, I felt very sad as Fort
Lafayette loomed up in all its dreariness. Looking furtively
over my shoulder, I saw that the desk was so placed that my
back shielded me from the eyes of the marshals at the moment,
and also that the officers and clerks were very busy seeing what
they could confiscate, each man for himself, out of the baggage
of the unfortunate prisoners; and, feeling that no worse fate
could overtake me, I slipped my hand cautiously along the desk,
took up a pen and, imitating as closely as possible the character
of the writing before me, inscribed my own name at the bottom
of the list, and immediately returned to the crowd at the other
end of the room. The deputy asked me if I saw my own name,

to which I promptly responded, ‘Yes.’ “Then you are all right,’ ~

said he, ‘and will be turned out tonight.’ Shortly afterwards,
we were marched off to a neighboring place to get our supper
at the expense of Uncle Sam, after which the chief marshal and
Judge Beebe appeared, and in due form separated those who
were to be released from the unfortunate ones remaining. -I
waited, with feelings that can be imagined better than they can
be described, as the names were read; and at last my own name

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was called without detection of my expedient, which was, doubt-
less, owing to the fact that the room was badly lighted and =
ness had already set in. Promptly responding to my name,
at once passed out into the night, leaving my commander, Capt.
Robert Lockwood, Mr. Charles Craig, the Wilmington pilot,
Billy Willington, our engineer, and several others of the Mar-
garet and Jessie, who, together with Capt. Frank Bonneau, his
Wilmington pilot, and his chief engineer, Alexander Laurence,
were sent to Fort Lafayette, where they remained until about

the end of the war.”

Tur Katr’s ADVENTURE.

In the spring of the year 1862, the Confederate Government,

desiring to arrange for the importation of supplies for the War

inci f the South Atlan-
D tment, and finding the principal ports 0
tic Cone 4 well guarded by the blockaders that the new under-

taki £ blockade running was consi
ded use the smaller inlets, which were less carefully watched

by the enemy, and dispatched the steamer Kate from Nassau
with a cargo of ammunition to Smyrna, Florida, where an .
entrance was safely effected by that vessel, and the cargo imme-
diately discharged and transported across the country to a place
of safety.

The K ate was commanded by Capt. Thomas J. Lockwood, of
Smithville, on the Cape Fear River, who was well known to our

river pilots and seafaring people as a man of very. superior skill
and seamanship, and as thoroughly familiar with the bars and
inlets along the Southern coast.

A second voyage by the Kate had been completed, and the
cargo successfully discharged and transported, before the move-
ment became known to the blockading squadron; but, while
the Kate was waiting for the return of Captain Lockwood from

‘hidi he chief officer of the Kate to pro
iding place, which forced the chief otlicer 0: oe ane Federal

ceed to sea at once, leaving the captain behin eal
_ cruiser landed a boat’s crew, who burned the house of Mr. Shel-

don, the pilot who had assisted in bringing the Kate to ma
anchorage, shortly after which, Captain Lockwood arrived wit

his family, to find that the ship ha departed. Mr.
Sheldon, however, furnished him with an ordinary whaleboat,

which had escaped the scrutiny of the Federal man-of-war’s
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