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This candle was carried aboard the blockade runner Beauregard; an 824 ton steamer with a crew of forty-seven. While leaving Wilmington in December 1863 the Beauregard was sighted by Federal blockaders and chased by the USS Howquah until running aground above Fort Fisher. It was burned by Confederates to prevent the ship being salvaged by Union forces and then wrecked by violent storms. The candle washed ashore at Wrightsville Beach during a hurricane in August 1893
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