[1] The Talisman was part of a flotilla of blockade runners gathered in November 1864 near Cape Fear, but on December 19 ran onto the wreck of the CSS Raleigh, and had to return to Wilmington for repairs.
The crew, including Lanier, were saved by a Federal schooner.
[1] According to data compiled by Civil War scholar Stephen R. Wise, the Talisman was a sidewheel steamer with an iron hull built by John Scott and Sons, in Greenock, Scotland, and owned/operated by William Boyle, of the Albion Trading Company.
It is reported as arriving in North Carolina ports on Oct. 1, Nov. 6, Dec. 8, 1864 (in all cases from Bermuda).
Operating in the Atlantic, it made a total of six attempts to break the blockade, succeeding five times.