Union Navy Alerted To Blockade Runner Bat By American Embassy in London
Meanwhile, Thomas H. Dudley, the American consul at Liverpool, had taken pains to learn of Bullock's activities and had informed Washington, D.C., of the South’s purchase of Bat and of that ship's departure from the British Isles.
As the blockade runner approached the Cape Fear River on the night of 8 October, Union warships in the vicinity had been alerted and were expecting her. First met by Eolus, Bat retired down the coast to the vicinity of Georgetown, South Carolina, remained anchored there throughout the 9th, and weighed anchor again in the wee hours of the 10th to begin another attempt to speed through the Union line into Wilmington, North Carolina.
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