For a Lieutenant_Commanding, in charge of a Blockade Runner, the LT-CDR pulled down about it is rumored $5000 Per Mission, but, one adds, in Confederate Money which had little exchange value even in the deep south of Dixie! Blockade-Running was a hazardous war task with no direct modern Paralell exc ept for Guerilla or Insurgent actions during the Spanish Civil War, again Hell-For Leather in extremis, and no guarantee of steady pay checks!
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They were actually called blockade runners.
D. Blockade Runners!
They are called Blockade Runners
Most records cite the fall of Wilmington, North Carolina on February 22, 1865. This was the last blockade running port of the South.
The South used small, fast ships called blockade runners to outrun the longer Union warships and reach trading ports.