Excerpt from Running the Blockade

A Wound, no trifling one, has laid me on the shelf for some months. My hull is shattered with rough weather, hard work, and constant excitement and peril. Yet I am a young man, not over twenty-eight, and at one time possessed a constitution as tough as a nor"wester, and the strength of a steam-tug. Rest may restore me, medicine may heal my wounds, kind treatment may banish the fancies that at times take possession of my mind as I think of the past; but no earthly power can ever make me forget all that I have endured and suffered for the Union"s sake.

And now, while I am racked with pain, unable to muster at quarters, with no immediate chance of once more snuffing salt water, I can while away my time by writing an account of my adventures, more for the purpose of showing how secret-service duties were carried on, and what means our government resorted to for the purpose of entrapping the rebels, breaking up blockade-running, and gaining information of Southern movements, than for personal aggrandizement, or pecuniary benefit.

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