Conspiracy in Canada

[margotdarby]

(03-26-2013 08:02 AM)Rsmyth Wrote:  Just a quick question; if you were a passenger on a blockade runner and were caught, what were the consequences?

By-the-bye reply to this old question... I ran across the information that John Banister Tabb served on a famous blockade runner called R. E. Lee. One reads in places that he was captured and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland. (True enough, although he was captured on a different vessel, a broken-down steam yacht called Siren, on a Bermuda-Wilmington run in 1864.) Tabb had also taken part in the Johnson's Island expedition in 1863, after which he went to Montreal, enjoying the famous hospitality of the P. C. Martin family.

Family link here, with details on everything but the Martin connection. http://tabbfamilyhistory.com/p22.htm#i638