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Ceres was a blockade runner of the American Civil War. After Ceres was abandoned near the mouth of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina in December 1863, U.S. Navy officers searched the burning ship and found documents belonging to C. A. L. Lamar that revealed several important details about the business of blockade running.