started, Juan Cortina, an enemy of Stillman's, led some attacks on the King, Kenedy and Co. fleet, most notably, an attack near Rio Grande City, Texas, but did not disrupt it. Shortly before the Civil War Stillman hired a clerk by the name of Francisco Yturria who would become an instrumental partner in King, Kenedy and Co. during the Civil War. Yturria being born in Matamoros could register boats under Mexico allowing them to fly the Mexican flag. Since Mexico was a neutral country American ships blockading the Texas Coast could not board Stillman's steamboats. Stillman, King and Kenedy arranged for bales of cotton to be sent to Brownsville where it was ferried across the Rio Grande to Matamoros. The Rio Grande could not be blockaded because it was an international border and such a blockade would have caused an incident with the Mexican Government. Despite Union Forces capturing Brownsville in 1863 and 1864, smuggling cotton was still a profitable venture. After the war a rail line from Brownsville to Point Isabel (Port Isabel, Texas was known as Point Isabel during this period) was completed and river traffic dwindled and the company sold its boats to Captain William Kelly. Personal life On August 17, 1849, in Wethersfield, Connecticut, he married Elizabeth Pamela Goodrich, also from Wethersfield. Goodrich was the daughter of Deacon Joshua Goodrich and Clarissa Goodrich (née Francis). Together, they had: James Stillman (1850–1918), who married Sarah Elizabeth Rumrill, and was the president of the First National City Bank James Alexander Stillman (1873–1944), who married Anne Urquhart Potter. He also served as president of National City Bank of New York Elsie Stillman, who married William Goodsell Rockefeller, a son of William Rockefeller Jr. Isabel Stillman, who married Percy Avery Rockefeller, another son of William Rockefeller Jr. Charles Chauncey Stillman Ernest Goodrich Stillman After the war, Stillman lived in Brownsville and New York but moved to New York permanently in 1866. Charles Stillman died on December 18, 1875, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York. His great-great-grandson is director Whit Stillman (b. 1952). Legacy Charles Stillman is believed to have named the first three streets in Brownsville after himself, his wife Elizabeth and his father Francis. These Streets are named St. Charles, Elizabeth St. and St. Francis. It is believed the Sign making company who made the street signs originally misread the order and mistook Street (St.) for