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Royal, and he went to Charleston and secured naturalization as a citizen of the Confederate States. Thereupon he at once enlisted in the Mathewes artillery, in charge of the lightship which had been converted into a gunboat, and was on duty with that vessel about two months. Blockade-runners were then called for and he was detailed for that service by Captain Bonneau. He and two others bought a schooner, called the Alligator, shipped a crew, and made two trips, one to Nassau and one to San Domingo. Then he shipped with the blockade-runner Kate, as masthead-lookout, and made four or five trips. Until the close of hostilities he was engaged in the same capacity, in this hazardous duty, successively, with the steamers Ella and Anna, under the famous Captain Carlin; the General Beauregard, the Alice, and the Fanny. On his return to Charleston, after the close of hostilities, he embarked in the grocery trade, and after twelve years of successful business, retired. He has been an ac