"I have had other news from the blockade runners that you must hear, Mistress."

Slowly, the blockade runner lost way and lay dead in the water, an easy prey for Union sailors.

He should have looked for work as a blockade runner, he knew now.

Without the blockade runners the Confederacy could not have sustained itself.

During the war, some 1,500 blockade runners were captured or destroyed.

Some 1,100 blockade runners were captured (and another 300 destroyed).

He designed ships that were fast enough to pursue the blockade runners.

Yet, some cotton was slipped out by blockade runner, or through Mexico.

If one ship was gone, they were usually chasing his blockade runners.

Every so often the Union fleet caught or sank a blockade runner, but most of them got through.