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Updated: June 5, 2025
In moonshiners' parlance, the liquor of second distillation is called the "doublings." It is in watching and testing the doublings that an accomplished blockader shows his skill, for if distillation be not carried far enough, the resulting spirits will be rank, though weak, and if carried too far, nothing but pure alcohol will result.
"The fog is settling down again on the Tallahatchie; but Captain Breaker knows where she is, and he will not let up till he has got his paw on her," said Graines. "The blockader in the west isn't anywhere now. She could not do a thing with such a steamer as that Confederate." The West Wind was now directly in the path of the Bellevite, and in five minutes more she stopped her screw.
A blockader had shot at Jack Coburn, and a posse had arrested the would-be assassin so flew the rumor, and it proved to be true. Coburn was a northern man who, years ago, opened a little store on the edge of the wilderness, bought timber land, and finally rose to affluence. With ready wit he adapted himself to the ways of the mountaineers and gained ascendancy among them.
"Captain Breaker would not take a position over to the westward, for that would give him the outside track, and he always goes at anything by the shortest way." "We have the fog again for the next ten or fifteen minutes. The blockader that fired that shot must have got a sight at the steamer, and she is still pegging away at her. We may get knocked over by our own guns," continued Graines.
"But you will find a blockader at the east end of the island; and then you will be as badly off as you are now," argued Christy. "I don't believe there is any blockader there. Who are all those men in the boat with you, Gilder?" "They belong to the water guard," replied Christy, at a venture, and he thought that would describe them as well as any terms at his command.
At midnight two boat-loads of determined men, rowing with muffled oars moved silently out from the blockader towards the beached vessel. In their boats they had some cans of turpentine, and several large shells. When they reached the blockade-runner they found all her crew gone ashore, save one watchman, whom they overpowered before he could give the alarm.
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