Roger Durham

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This is the fascinating story of a blockade run aboard the Canadian  S/V “Standard”.  Her 1862 voyage was from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Sapelo Sound, Georgia, and up the inland passage to the North Newport River, where her cargo of clothes, medicine and ammunition were off-loaded near Colonel’s Island at Melon Bluff. The much needed goods were then transported to, and eventually sold in Savannah.  The Brigantine was then scuttled in the river by her crew, as their escape was made impossible by the pursuit of the Union blockade steamers “Wamsutta” and the “Potomska”.  Author Roger Durham pieces the story together from different sources , most notably the very descriptive diary of James Dickson with his  accounts of the offshore perils, and observations of the wartime coastal conditons at Blackbeard and St Catherines Islands. The local home guard fired on the “Potomska” and  “Wamsutta”, as they descended the river at half moon bluff, mortally wounding two Union seamen. They were buried on Doboy Island.