The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-15
RUNNING THE BLOCKADE.
EXCITING EPISODE IN THE CAREER
OF A BLOCKADE RUNNER.
Escape and Final Capture of the Con-
Tcdprate Steamer Susanna The
Commanders story.

in the month of October, l think it
was--that l ran the blockade in Calves
ton harbor, in command of the steamer
Susanna, with a cargo of arms and ann
munition for the Confederate govern
ment."
The speaker, says the Savannah (Ga.)
No,CS, was mediums sized, square-built
man, with deep-set eyes and determined
features.
81 have read the account in the Sun
day Nelos,n he continued, ''of the strik-
ing chase at sea, and the story of the re-
markable escape of Confederate steamer
at Galveston. | was in command of
that ship at the time
The reporter recognized at once an old
Savannahan, Captain Charles w. Austin,
who is now in the government employ,
and who figured in many thrilling adj
ventures in the war, but came out with
out scar. "You had a narrow escape,
Captain; but tell us something about
the affair"
"As | said. it was some time in the
fall of 1865. l had made four or five
successful trips from Havana, bringing
arms and munitions of war; but this trip
nearly wound me up. The Susanna,
as privateer, was a stanch, trim-built
iron vessel, with capacity for from
1 400 to I. 800 bales of cotton. and with
an average speed of about fifteen knots
an hour. She was built in England, on
the Clyde, as a blockade runner, and lay
low in the water, with her long, black
hull hardly visible excent in broad day
light. She was about 22j feet long by
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