Bunch was now impressed with Southern determination.] [Footnote 531: The seven ports were Norfolk (Virginia), Wilmington (North Carolina), Charleston (South Carolina), Savannah (Georgia), Mobile (Alabama), New Orleans (Louisiana), and Galveston (Texas).] [Footnote 532: The first important reference to the blockade after mid-August, 1861, is in an order to Bunch, conveyed through Lyons, not to give advice to British merchants in Charleston as to blockade runners that had gotten into port having any "right" to go out again (F.O., Am., Vol.757.No.402.Russell to Lyons, Nov.

8, 1861).] [Footnote 533: _Parliamentary Papers_, 1862, _Lords_, Vol.

XXV.
"Correspondence on Civil War in the United States." No.125.Lyons to Russell, Nov.

25, 1861.

Received Dec.