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HEY! Hey! My mom's hometown of Coinjock, NC. had a big moment during the Civil War on Sept. 8, 1864.
September 8 — The only capture of a Unites States Congressman during the Civil War — at Coinjock in Currituck County. George Washington Julian was taken prisoner when Capt. J. N. Maffitt ordered pilot J. B. Hopkins to take a detail of twenty Confederate sailors to the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal and capture the mail boat Fawn. Julian was subsequently released in Elizabeth City.
They capture the mail boat Fawn at the Currituck Bridge which is in Coinjock. Below is a link to a section in a book which details the event. It's like a paragraph long...
http://books.google.com/books?id=Jp...ressman George Washington Julian 1864&f=false
No one knows why the Confederate sailors let Congressman Julian go after learning who he was..
Yea!! My mom's hometown had a Civil War moment! Yea!!
Yea! Coinjock!!
September 8 — The only capture of a Unites States Congressman during the Civil War — at Coinjock in Currituck County. George Washington Julian was taken prisoner when Capt. J. N. Maffitt ordered pilot J. B. Hopkins to take a detail of twenty Confederate sailors to the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal and capture the mail boat Fawn. Julian was subsequently released in Elizabeth City.
They capture the mail boat Fawn at the Currituck Bridge which is in Coinjock. Below is a link to a section in a book which details the event. It's like a paragraph long...
http://books.google.com/books?id=Jp...ressman George Washington Julian 1864&f=false
No one knows why the Confederate sailors let Congressman Julian go after learning who he was..
Yea!! My mom's hometown had a Civil War moment! Yea!!
Yea! Coinjock!!