(CIVIL WAR NAVY) List of Suspected Vessels

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(CIVIL WAR--NAVY.) List of Suspected Vessels. 4 printed quarto pages on one folding sheet, with 3 appended manuscript pages on another folding sheet, attached with a bit of ribbon; minor wear. Np, circa January 1862

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A list of suspected blockade runners in operation along the Atlantic coast. The printed portion (which does not appear in OCLC) lists more than 60 ships, most of them British vessels which had been observed with suspicious cargoes in London or the West Indies. A typical entry reads "Steamers Malacca & Rangoon, by advices from London of October 18, supposed to be purchased or hired by the rebels." The reports are dated from October 1861 to 3 January 1862. The manuscript additions are in the same vein, listing 10 additional ships, each with detailed physical descriptions but no associated dates. We have not seen any lists similar to this one, which must have been extremely useful to blockade operations and reveals a sophisticated Union intelligence operation that spanned several ports.