JANUARY
20, 1865:
Nathaniel
Marks, formerly of Company A, 4th Kentucky, C.S.A. is condemned as a guerrilla.
He claims his innocence, but is shot by a firing squad in Louisville, Kentucky.
Having
taken Fort Fisher, Union forces maintain the lighthouse fire on the
newly-re-renamed Federal Point. What they do not know is that the beacon is
kept lit as an indicator of safe passage for blockade-runners. Today, the
vessels STAG and CHARLOTTE drop anchor in New Inlet, glad to have completed
their passage, and unaware of the fall of the bastion. The ships, and their
cargoes, crews, and passengers are all seized as contraband of war by the
United States.
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