CSS AROB ROY@  DIORAMA
Early 20th Century

A folk art creation of the Historical Confederate Blockade Runner during the American Civil War from 1862-1864.

The ARob Roy@ was commanded by Captain William Watson.  Watson had immigrated from Great Britian several years before had originally enlisted in the Confederate Army as a sergeant before being wounded at the Battle of Corinth, and discharged due to his injuries.  Hiring out a schooner, commissioned as the ARob Roy@, Watson would bring in desperately needed supplies into blockaded southern ports, specifically Galveston, Texas before selling the ship after finantial disagreements with business associates.  Waton would later write about his wartime naval career in an autobiography The Civil War Adventures of a Blockade Runner in 1892.

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