to stop them, and Owl arrived in Bermuda on October 24 with a large and valuable cargo of cotton. Maffit made several more successful runs through the Union blockade in Owl before the war ended. During his service to the Confederacy, Maffitt repeatedly ran the blockade to carry needed supplies and captured and destroyed more than seventy prizes worth $10 to $15 million. Later life At the end of the war, he refused to surrender his ship to the United States. Instead, he returned Owl to agents in Liverpool. He chose to remain in England, and, after passing the British naval examination, he served for about two years in command of the British merchant steamer Widgeon running between Liverpool and South America. He returned to the United States in 1868 and settled on a farm near Wilmington, North Carolina. In 1870, Maffit commanded a warship for Cuban revolutionaries during the Ten Years' War. Maffit died in Wilmington in 1886, leaving an unfinished manuscript about piracy in the West Indies. His collected papers are in the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. See also Blockade runners of the American Civil War Confederate privateer References Sources Commander John Newland Maffitt, CSN at U.S. Naval Historical Center Inventory of the John Newland Maffitt Papers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Biography of John Newland Maffitt at Confederate States Navy Museum, Library & Research Institute John Newland Maffitt and the Galveston Blockade at Texas A&M University Institute of Nautical Archaeology John Newland Maffitt at the Alexandria, Virginia Library "Captain John Newland Maffit", from Derelicts by James Sprunt, at Joyner Library, East Carolina University Bibliography Shingleton, Royce, High Seas Confederate: The Life and Times of John Newland Maffitt, 1819 births 1886 deaths Confederate States Navy commanders American privateers United States Navy officers People of the Ten Years' War People born at sea