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Author : Thomas E. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027626525
Author : Stephen R. Wise
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0872497992
One of the finest original works on the Civil War. -- Civil War News
Author : Thomas E. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044013638606
Author : Andrew W. Hall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625850249
In 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 : Hamilton Cochran
Publisher : Indianapolis, Indiana : Bobbs-Merrill
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015011223826
Author : Charles D. Ross
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496831361
On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succeed in a protracted conflict. What it did have—and what England and other foreign countries wanted—was cotton and tobacco. Industrious men soon began to connect the dots between Confederate and British needs. As the blockade grew, the blockade runners became quite ingenious in finding ways around the barriers. Boats worked their way back and forth from the Confederacy to Nassau and England, and everyone from scoundrels to naval officers wanted a piece of the action. Poor men became rich in a single transaction, and dances and drinking—from the posh Royal Victoria hotel to the boarding houses lining the harbor—were the order of the day. British, United States, and Confederate sailors intermingled in the streets, eyeing each other warily as boats snuck in and out of Nassau. But it was all to come crashing down as the blockade finally tightened and the final Confederate ports were captured. The story of this great carnival has been mentioned in a variety of sources but never examined in detail. Breaking the Blockade: The Bahamas during the Civil War focuses on the political dynamics and tensions that existed between the United States Consular Service, the governor of the Bahamas, and the representatives of the southern and English firms making a large profit off the blockade. Filled with intrigue, drama, and colorful characters, this is an important Civil War story that has not yet been told.
Author : Joseph McKenna
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781476636436
Perhaps 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 : William Henry Thomes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1084582034
Author : David Kent-Lemon
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781599808
It is 1861. Tom Wells is in pursuit of a girl from North Carolina. He accepts an offer from his employer to leave the quiet obscurity of his job as an office boy in a London shipping firm to cross the Atlantic to Nassau in the Bahamas. Now he must face the hazards of the Union blockade of the Confederate ports in the American Civil War. Toms bravado may help him with the dangers of running the blockade, but how will he cope with the conflicting issues of love, loyalty and morality as he becomes entangled with a lady of easy virtue in Nassau?Toms adventures take him through the perilous triangle between Nassau, Charleston and Wilmington NC, where he must smuggle arms and munitions through a gauntlet of Union warships to the Southern ports, bringing cotton and tobacco back to Nassau. David Kent-Lemon presents us here with a fast paced and dynamic narrative, exploring a fascinating, dramatic and less well-known corner of that extraordinary conflict the American Civil War. The characters are finely drawn, with the balance between deceit and morality offset by courage and humor. The realism and historical accuracy of the background complete the picture.As the Civil War reaches its climax, so does the drama in Tom's life, heightened by the historical events within which he is embroiled.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726647792
Combining romance and adventure, ‘The Blockade Runners’ is set in both Scotland and the south of America, as the American Civil War looks to become a reality. Scottish entrepreneur, Captain James Playfair, sets out on a daring mission to acquire cotton from the southern states. However, there’s more to one of his travelling companions than meets the eye and Playfair quickly finds himself facing a whole new set of challenges. A rollicking read, Verne peppers this short story with vivid details about each of the destinations our protagonist encounters. Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who became known as the ‘Father of Science Fiction.’ He wrote more than 60 novels, including ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ (1864), ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ (1870) which was also released as a film, starring James Mason, and ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ (1873), which has been released as a TV drama, featuring former Dr Who star, David Tennant.
Author : William Watson
Publisher : London, T. F. Unwin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014351233
Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472853271
The lifeblood of the Confederacy, the blockade runners of the Civil War usually began life as regular fast steam-powered merchant ships. They were adapted for the high-speed dashes through the Union blockade which closed off all the major Southern ports, and for much of the war they brought much-needed food, clothing and weaponry to the Confederacy. This book traces their operational history, including the development of purpose-built blockade running ships, and examines their engines, crews and tactics. It describes their wartime exploits, demonstrating their operational and mechanical performance, whilst examining what life was like on these vessels through accounts of conditions on board when they sailed into action.
Author : John F. Messner
Publisher : Whittles
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1849954828
The untold story of Joannes Wyllie, son of a gardener from Fife, one of the most successful blockade runners of the American Civil War Features his life of adventure and action; he was once declared dead, survived shipwrecks and shark attack, and successfully commanded ships across the globe The most comprehensive history of the Ad-Vance is provided, from departing Glasgow until capture off the Carolina coast
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : United States
ISBN : 0809447088
The Civil War at sea was essentially a battle over commerce vital to the Confederate States.
Author : Dave Horner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89059410191
Includes Charleston and Drunken Dick Shoal.