Lifeline of the Confederacy
Author: Stephen R. Wise
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780872497993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the finest original works on the Civil War. -- Civil War News
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Author: Stephen R. Wise
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780872497993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the finest original works on the Civil War. -- Civil War News
Author: Andrew W. Hall
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-06-10
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1625850247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last months of the American Civil War, the upper Texas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was often considered an isolated backwater in the conflict, the Union's pervasive and systematic seizure of Southern ports left Galveston as one of the only strongholds of foreign imports in the anemic supply chain to embattled Confederate forces. Long, fast steamships ran in and out of the city's port almost every week, bound to and from Cuba. Join author Andrew W. Hall as he explores the story of Texas's Civil War blockade runners--a story of daring, of desperation and, in many cases, of patriotism turning coat to profiteering.
Author: William Watson
Publisher: London, T. F. Unwin
Published: 1892
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert WARNEFORD (Lieut., pseud.)
Publisher:
Published: 1863
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dave Horner
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 280
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Author: Thomas E. Taylor
Publisher:
Published: 1991-07-01
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781556134586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEntertaining yet highly accurate, this narrative recounts a renegade English gentleman's role as a blockade runner.
Author: Joseph McKenna
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2019-04-11
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1476636435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerhaps more than all the campaigns of the Union armies, the Union naval blockade--covering all major Southern ports along 3,500 miles of coastline for the duration of the war--brought down the Confederacy. The daring exploits of Confederate blockade runners are well known--but many of them were British citizens operating out of neutral ports such as Nassau, Havana and Bermuda. Focusing on British involvement in the war, this history names the overseas bankers and manufacturers who, in critical need of cotton and other Confederate exports, financed and equipped the fast little ships that ran the blockade. The author attempts to disentangle the names and aliases of the captains--many of whom were Royal Navy officers on temporary leave--and tells their stories in their own words.
Author: Thomas E. Taylor
Publisher:
Published: 1896
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Civil War personal narrative that presents to us from the pen of a principal actor the most complete account we have of a great blockade in the days of steam.
Author: William Watson
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781585441525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Watson published his account of the two years he spent evading Union gunboats and dealing with the "sharpers" who fed off the misfortune of war in 1892. Using log books, personal papers, and business memoranda, he sought to write a "plain, blunt" account of "events just as they happened." Instead, he wrote a classic adventure tale whose careful description of seafaring in the 1860s gives us a glimpse into a world now closed to us. Watson is the protagonist, but he shares his story with his ship, the Rob Roy, a center-board schooner whose shallow draft and wide beam made it the ideal vessel for slipping over shoals and dashing in and out of blockaded ports. He peoples his account with the good, the bad, and the unlucky, from the likeable and irrepressible Captain Dave McLusky to the loathsome and dishonest Mr. R. M. He takes his reader from Havana, where land sharks greeted incoming sailors, to Galveston, where sharp businessmen and corrupt officials connived to confiscate both profits and ships. He stops at Matamora, a dusty place on "a bare and barren coast," and he visits General Magruder in Houston. His crew brave gales and a hurricane that drives the Rob Roy back thirty miles; and he survives plots against his ship and his life. Through it all, Watson enjoys himself. Blockade running, he declares, was not "unlawful or dishonourable." Rather, it was "a bold and daring enterprise," an "exciting sport of the higher order," like racing yachts, and an almost obligatory act of defiance of a blockade "maintained by no other right than by the force of arms." The "commission merchants" did better than the blockade runners. But Watson recalled his years dodging federal gunboats and outwitting petty officials, treacherous crew, and dishonest businessmen as "much more congenial than the extortions and deceitful wheedling and trickeries of the legitimate trade." This is an adventure story held together by the nuts and bolts of sailing. Watson's discussion of why sail was superior to steam for running blockades is superb; his detailed accounts of surviving gales and outrunning Federal cruisers are fascinating. He takes yellow fever and high sea chases in stride. Through it all, he maintains his honor and guards his profits. For the reader who wants to ply the Gulf of Mexico under sail, play the lottery in Havana, and visit Texas when it was "a new country," Watson is the perfect guide to run the blockade that time imposes on posterity.
Author: William Watson
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published: 1898
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 5878530880
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