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Book Synopsis Confederate Blockade Runner 1861–65 by : Angus Konstam
Download or read book Confederate Blockade Runner 1861–65 written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Lifeline of the Confederacy by : Stephen R. Wise
Download or read book Lifeline of the Confederacy written by Stephen R. Wise and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest original works on the Civil War. -- Civil War News
Book Synopsis The Narrative of a Blockade-runner by : J. Wilkinson
Download or read book The Narrative of a Blockade-runner written by J. Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis War on the Waters by : James M. McPherson
Download or read book War on the Waters written by James M. McPherson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raiders sank Union ships and drove the American merchant marine from the high seas. Southern ironclads sent several Union warships to the bottom, naval mines sank many more, and the Confederates deployed the world's first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. But in the end, it was the Union navy that won some of the war's most important strategic victories--as an essential partner to the army on the ground at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher, and all by itself at Port Royal, Fort Henry, New Orleans, and Memphis.
Book Synopsis Confederate Submarines and Torpedo Vessels 1861–65 by : Angus Konstam
Download or read book Confederate Submarines and Torpedo Vessels 1861–65 written by Angus Konstam and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary Union strategy during the American Civil War was a massive naval blockade of the entire Southern coastline of the Confederacy, and it was in the effort to counter this blockade that the Confederates developed their first submarines and torpedo boats. This book traces the development of these new technologies, including the CSS 'Little David' and 'Hunley' - respectively the first torpedo boat and submarine to sink an enemy warship. The wreck of the 'Hunley' was raised in 2000, and this is the first book ever to integrate details of its recovery with an account of Confederate submarines in action.
Book Synopsis The Confederate Quartermaster in the Trans-Mississippi by : James Lynn Nichols
Download or read book The Confederate Quartermaster in the Trans-Mississippi written by James Lynn Nichols and published by Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the history and activities of the Denbigh, one of the Civil War's most successful blockade runners. A new introduction by J. Barto Arnold III (which includes a lengthy appendix) reviews recent archival and archaeological research and highlights the blockade runner's place in the Confederacy's complex and ultimately insoluble problem of obtaining manufactured items from abroad. From the reviews "[A]n important contribution to the historian's knowledge of a significant aspect of the military operations of the Civil War." George L. Anderson in Civil War History "[O]ffers much light in a hitherto little regarded area of Confederate studies. Professor Nichols deserves great credit for this fine contribution to Civil War knowledge." Allan C. Ashcraft in Southern Historical Quarterly "This [volume] . . . should help future scholars to a better understanding of the period 1861-65 than has ever been possible before." Robert A. Brent in Journal of Mississippi History "[A] pioneering work in the field of Trans-Mississippi logistics." William T. Windham in Journal of Southern History
Book Synopsis Union River Ironclad 1861–65 by : Angus Konstam
Download or read book Union River Ironclad 1861–65 written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the American Civil War, neither side had warships on the Mississippi River, which was a vital strategic artery. In what would prove the vital naval campaign of the war, both sides fought for control of the river. While the Confederates relied on field fortifications and small gunboats, the Union built a series of revolutionary river ironclads. First commissioned in January 1862, these ironclads spent the next two years battling for control of the Mississippi, fighting in a string of decisive engagements that altered the entire course of the war. This book explains how these vessels worked, how they were constructed, how they were manned and how they were fought.
Book Synopsis Confederate Raider 1861–65 by : Angus Konstam
Download or read book Confederate Raider 1861–65 written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confederate states adopted radical solutions to counter the naval superiority of their opponents. One of the more successful solutions they adopted was the use of commerce raiders. This book describes the reasons which forced the Confederates to resort to commerce raiding, and outlines the way in which these craft were converted or specially built to perform their role. It details not only the way these craft were operated and manned, but also their brutal attacks, daring escapes and climatic battles against the large numbers of Union warships forced to hunt them down.
Book Synopsis Jenkins~ by : A.V. Harrison Publishing
Download or read book Jenkins~ written by A.V. Harrison Publishing and published by AV Harrison Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a prominent Baltimore family in 1811, C.T. Jenkins defies his father's demands that he continue the Jenkins' family enterprise and makes a dash into the pages of Confederate history. After his capture by Union forces off Florida's Gulf Coast for the crime of blockade running and facing a life sentence, Jenkins realizes that to survive his ordeal he must face the challenge of realigning with his Baltimore family.
Download or read book The Blockade written by and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1983 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War at sea was essentially a battle over commerce vital to the Confederate States.
Book Synopsis Confederate Raider 1861–65 by : Angus Konstam
Download or read book Confederate Raider 1861–65 written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confederate states adopted radical solutions to counter the naval superiority of their opponents. One of the more successful solutions they adopted was the use of commerce raiders. This book describes the reasons which forced the Confederates to resort to commerce raiding, and outlines the way in which these craft were converted or specially built to perform their role. It details not only the way these craft were operated and manned, but also their brutal attacks, daring escapes and climatic battles against the large numbers of Union warships forced to hunt them down.
Book Synopsis The adventures of a blockade runner; or, Trade in time of war by : William Watson (of Skelmorlie.)
Download or read book The adventures of a blockade runner; or, Trade in time of war written by William Watson (of Skelmorlie.) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Civil War Adventures of a Blockade Runner by : William Watson
Download or read book The Civil War Adventures of a Blockade Runner written by William Watson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William 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.
Book Synopsis The Blockade-runners by : Dave Horner
Download or read book The Blockade-runners written by Dave Horner and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Charleston and Drunken Dick Shoal.
Download or read book Clyde Built written by Eric J. Graham and published by Birlinn Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War of 1861-65 was one of the defining moments in the history of America. The Blockade of the US Southern ports during the war is well known. This book presents an account of Scotland's involvement in the American Civil War Blockade, an involvement which almost certainly prolonged the conflict by several years.
Book Synopsis The Navy In The Civil War ... by : Anonymous
Download or read book The Navy In The Civil War ... written by Anonymous and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role played by the US Navy during the Civil War, with a particular focus on the Gulf of Mexico and inland waterways. Mahan, a former naval officer himself, draws on his extensive knowledge of naval strategy and tactics to provide a detailed account of the battles and campaigns fought by the Union and Confederate navies. A classic work of military history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Confederate Blockade Runners by : Paul Hendren
Download or read book The Confederate Blockade Runners written by Paul Hendren and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
