Unnamed Blockade Runners
Character Key Number:
3624
Display Name:
Unnamed Blockade Runners
Sort Name:
Unnamed Blockade Runners
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
During the Civil War these blockade runners smuggled in provisions through the Union naval blockade for the inhabitants of Charleston. According to Aunt Jenny in The Unvanquished, they were "heroes in a way" (244).