Diorama Blockade runner dioramas back on display

[Phil Gast]

Back on display in Carolina Beach, N.C.: Blockade runner dioramas are rich with riveting detail.

Back on display in N.C.: Blockade runner dioramas are rich with riveting detail

civil-war-picket.blogspot.com

 

[nitrofd]

Back on display in Carolina Beach, N.C.: Blockade runner dioramas are rich with riveting detail. http://civil-war-picket.blogspot.com/2016/07/back-on-display-in-nc-blockade-running.html

I wish I had the talent to do something like that.they are really nice.

 

[1950lemans]

It's great to see such displays being utilized again.

Trivia question. Why didn't Rose Goodhow make it? What got in her way from saving her life?

 

[Pat Young]

Gold?

 

[1950lemans]

Yep! She had a lot of it on her.

 

[AndyHall]

Excellent, Phil. Thanks!

 

[AndyHall]

Ann Blackman's biography of Greenhow says she was carrying 400 British gold sovereigns, or about $2,000 in U.S. hard currency. Each gold coin was a little less than an inch in diameter, and weighed a little over a quarter ounce. That's around 112 ounces, or about 7 pounds dead weight, in a heavy leather satchel that also contained dispatches and important papers. The satchel was attached to a chain around her neck.

She didn't stand a chance when the boat rolled over in the surf. The others in the boat were rescued.