{"id":2462,"date":"2015-01-16T19:58:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=2462"},"modified":"2015-01-16T20:11:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T20:11:36","slug":"curlew","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=2462","title":{"rendered":"Curlew"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2463\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CSS_Curlew.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2463\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2463 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CSS_Curlew.jpg\" alt=\"CSS_Curlew\" width=\"400\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CSS_Curlew.jpg 400w, http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CSS_Curlew-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burning of the CSS Curlew at the Battle of Roanoke Island, February 9, 1862. Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated Newspaper 1862.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tristrim Lowther Skinner owned a one-fifth interest in the Albemarle Steamship Company, which operated the <em>Stag<\/em> and the <em>Curlew. <\/em>He and his partner (and former brother-in-law) Dr. Thomas D. Warren, also owned the old India Wharf property in Edenton.<\/p>\n<p>The iron steamer <em>Curlew<\/em> was appropriated by the Confederate Navy in 1861, and after being shelled in the battle of Roanoke Island on February 8, 1862, was run aground and burned the next day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Olson, <em>The Excellent Iron Boat: The Curlew in Antebellum North Carolina and the Civil War 1856-1862<\/em> (Kindle 2011)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B005LE97IQ\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B005LE97IQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wills of Tristrim Lowther Skinner, 1853, 1857, and 1861, Skinner Family Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tristrim Lowther Skinner owned a one-fifth interest in the Albemarle Steamship Company, which operated the Stag and the Curlew. He and his partner (and former brother-in-law) Dr. Thomas D. Warren, also owned the old India Wharf property in Edenton. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=2462\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4M6TH-DI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2462\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}