Identifier: ournavyintimeofw00matt (find matches)
Title: Our navy in time of war (1861-1898)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Matthews, Franklin, 1858-1917. (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ve a wrong name when theyAvere hailed and asked who they were, and when theywere captured always threw overboard papers andother documents that w^ould reveal their real nature. Two or three trips would pay for the cost of anyvessel, and some of these runners stole into port asmany as twenty-five times. Before the war ended a;)ound of tea was worth two or three hundred dol-lars in Southern money in Wilmington, N. C, andother su))plies w^ere enormously expensive. GreatBritain depended almost entirely upon the Southfor the cotton for its mills, and there was great dis-tress in England because the mills were shut down.Xo less than $10,000,000 *was spent in Englandto keep people who had no work because of thewar from starving. By bringing in food from Eng-lish and other ports, and by taking out cotton forIhiglish mills, the profits of the blockade runnerswere very high. One of them is known to havemade more than $90,000 in one month. The wagesof the captain was usually $5,000 a month. From
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Commodore Porter. Heroes of the War of the Rebellion. THE GREAT BLOCKADE. 215 March 1, 1804, to January 1, 1865, for instance, thecotton that was shipped out of the South by theserunners amounted in value to more than $5,000,000in gokh It is on record that in two months and alittle more, in the latter part of 1864, more than8,000,000 pounds of meat, 1,500,000 pounds of lead,nearly 2,000,000 pounds of saltpeter, nearly 550,000pairs of shoes, more than 300,000 pairs of blankets,about 500,000 pounds of coffee, nearly 70,000 rifles,and nearly 2,700 packages of medicine were smuggledinto the ports of AVilmington and Charleston alone.Iliere were hundreds of vessels engaged in this work.Another class of vessels that appeared upon theseas as the result of the blockade was what was knownas privateers. These were vessels whose work it was tocapture vessels of the Xortli and bring them into portas prizes. Privateers were so called because they wereowned by private persons, but were sent out by t

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