The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-03

tary position, tnere can out De one
as to it's utility to the blockade-run-
ners, for it was not a landmark alone
along this monotonous coast, but
one of the range lights for crossing
New Inlet bar was placed upon it,
These lights were only set
after signals had been exchanged be-
tween the blockade-runner and the
shore station, and were removed inn
mediately after the vessel had enter
ed the river"
1t is related that Colonel Lambs
wife, Ii native of Rhode Island. be-
came loyal to the South after the
war began, left two of their children
with their grandparents in the North,
and took the third, q baby. to Fort
Fisher, having been allowed to pass
through the Federal lines by special
permission of the Secretary of War.
The soldiers built her a cottage on
the Atlantic beach, a mile North of
the fort, and this little home was
sometimes exposed to the shells fired
at belated blockade runners. In the
Southern Historical Papers," writ
ten by the Colonel he says:
'1t was quaint abode, constructed
in most primitive style, with three
rooms around one big chimney, in
which North Carolina pine knots sup
piled heat and light on winter nights.
This cottage became historic, and
was famed for the frugal but tempt
ing meals which it's charming hostess
would prepare for his distinguished
guests.
''Besides the many illustrious Con-
federate army and navy officers who
were delighted to find this bit ofsun-
shiny civilization on the wild sandy
beach, ensconced among the sand
dunes and struggling pines and
blackjack, many celebrated English
naval officers enjoyed its hospitality
under assumed names-Roberts,
afterward the renowned Hobart
Pasha, who commanded the Turkish
navy; Murray, now Admiral Murray
Aynsley, long since retired, after
having been rapidly promoted for
>gailantry and meritoriOus services
in the British navy; the brave but
unfortunate Hugh Burgoyne, V. c.,
who went down in the British iron
clad Captain in the Bay of Biscay,
and the chivalrous Hewett, who won
the Victoria Cross in the Crimea and
was knighted for his services as am
bassador to King John of Abyssinia,
and who after commanding the
Queens yacht, died lamented as Ad-
miral Hewett.
Besides these there were many
genial and gallant merchant cap.
tains, among them Halpin, who
afterward commanded the Great Eas-
tern while laying ocean cables, and
famous war correspondents
Hon. Francis C. Lawley, NJ. P. cor
respondent of the London Times,
and Frank Vizetelly, of the London
Illustrated News afterward murder
ed in the Sudan. Nor must the plucky
Tom Taylor be forgotten, supercargo
OF the Banshee and Night Hawk, who.
by his GOODNESS and daring, escaped
| with a boats crew from the hands
OF the Federals after capture off the
fort, and who was endeared to the
children as the Santa Claus of the
war.
"At first the little Confederate was
satisfied with pork and potatoes,
corn bread and rye coffee, with
sorghum sweetening; but after the
blockade-runners made her acqauint-
ance the impoverished storeroom
was soon filled to overflowing, not
withstanding her heavy acquisitions
on it for the post hospital, the sick
soldiers and sailors always being a
subject of her tenderest sOlicitude,