Record #:

12333

Author(s):

Stancil, Bill

Abstract:

Josiah Pender was a blockade runner during the Civil War. After the death of his first wife, Pender married Laura Melvina Pender of Tarboro in 1862. She traveled with him on many voyages and composed numerous letters that documented the drama of blockade running. On one journey aboard The Advance from Bermuda to Tarboro in 1863, Mrs. Pender, who was expecting her first child, took command of the ship when the captain was indecisive, and ran the Wilmington blockade under a barrage of cannon fire from the Union ships.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 42 Issue 4, Sept 1974, p12-14, 20, il, por

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865