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BLOCKADE KUNNING.

By JAMES SPRUNT, Former Purser STEAMER LILIAN.

The following serial, undertaken at the request of Hon.
Walter Clark, is a compilation of the narrative of some of
those who participated in a branch of the Confederate ser-
vice, which, although not officially recognized, was neverthe-
less effective in sustaining the war long after the resources
of the South had been exhausted.

THE VALUE OF BLOCKADE RUNNING TO THE CONFEDERACY.

There are no records from which computation might be
made of the amount and value of goods, arms, supplies and
stores brought into the Confederate States during the four
years of blockade, but the Hon. Zebulon B. Vance, who
was Governor of North Carolina during several years of the
war, has put on record the share, in part, of our State in
blockade-running, from which a general idea of the amount
of values may he obtained.

In an address before the Association of the Maryland Line,
delivered in Baltimore 23 February, 1885, he said:

“By the general industry and thrift of our people and by
the use of a number of blockade-running steamers, carrying
out cotton and bringing in supplies from Europe, I had col-
lected and distributed from time to time, as near as can be
gathered from the records of the Quartermaster’s Depart-
ment, the following stores: Large quantities of machinery
supplies; 60,000 pairs of hand cards; 10,000 grain scythes ;
200 barrels of blue stone for wheat growers; leather and shoes
to 250,000 pairs; 50,000 blankets; grey wool cloth for
at least 250,000 suits of uniforms; 12,000 overcoats ready-
made: 2,000 best Enfield rifles, with 100 rounds of fixed
ammunition ; 100,000 pounds of bacon; 500 sacks of coffee
for hospital use; $50,000 worth of medicines at gold prices,
large quantities of lubricating oils, besides minor supplies of

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