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Running of the Blockade.
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R. C. Robinson, William Robins, Douglas Rider, Samuel N. Roberts, dead; Philip Sale, at Soldiers’ Home; John Smith, dead; Joshua Styles, Giles Tignor, dead; Harvey Terry, John Tuck, James T. Tuck, dead; Roy Temple, George T. Tibbs, Robert Tibbs, dead; William C. Tuck, dead; Edward J. Tuck, S. C. Trimen, Henry Tate, H. M. Turner, dead; J. M. Virlanda, dead; H. W. Vias, dead; William Warfield, dead; John P. Woody, dead; E. S. Woody, dead; James White, W. S. Whitlock, killed at Seven Pines; G. H. Wiltshire, dead; James G. White, and Thomas C. Jones.

Summary—Dead, 37; killed at Seven Pines, 8; at Sharpsburg, 2; at Gettysburg, 2; total 48. Died in prison, 2; killed at Salesford, 1; killed at Bloody Angle, 3; total 6. Total dead, &c., 54. Living, 53. Grand total, 107.




[From the Richmond Dispatch, August 2, 1896.]


RUNNING OF THE BLOCKADE.


Interesting Narrative of Mr. James Sprunt.


VANCE KEPT NORTH CAROLINA SOLDIERS WELL PROVIDED.


A Sketch of Captain Maffitt.

The following is contributed to the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer by James Sprunt:

There exist 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-running. But the Hon. Zebulon B. Vance, who was Governor of North Carolina during a large part 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 be obtained. In an address before the Association of the Maryland Line, delivered in Baltimore February 23, 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 collected and distributed, from time to time, as near as can be gathered from