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Book Synopsis The Confederate Privateers by : William Morrison Robinson
Download or read book The Confederate Privateers written by William Morrison Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confederate privateers is a book of action and adventure filled with stories of the Confederacy's privately armed ships and their sea battles with the Union. Called 'pirates' by the North, the South preferred to call them 'gentlemen adventurers', justly boasting of their exploits. Using Naval War records and other archives, the author provides readers with an authentic description of the privateers, their cruises and prizes, their successes and failures, and their ultimate fates. In fact, this is the first narrative history of privateer cruises aboard the Jefferson Davis, the Dixie, the Sally, and the pygmy submarine Pioneer.
Book Synopsis The Confederate Privateers by : William Morrison Robinson
Download or read book The Confederate Privateers written by William Morrison Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last of the Confederate Privateers by : David Hay
Download or read book The Last of the Confederate Privateers written by David Hay and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Confederate Privateer by : William C. Harris
Download or read book Confederate Privateer written by William C. Harris and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confederate Privateer is a comprehensive account of the brief life and exploits of John Yates Beall, a Confederate soldier, naval officer, and guerrilla in the Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes region. A resident of Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), near Harpers Ferry, Beall was a member of the militia guarding the site of John Brown’s execution in 1859. Beall later signed on as a private in the Confederate army and suffered a wound in defense of Harpers Ferry early in the war. He quickly became a fanatical Confederate, ignoring the issue of slavery by focusing on a belief that he was fighting to preserve liberty against a tyrannical Republican party that had usurped the republic and its constitution. Limited by poor health but still seeking an active role in the Confederate cause, Beall traveled to the Midwest and then to Canada, where he developed an elaborate plan for Confederate operations on the Great Lakes. In Richmond, Beall laid his plan before Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory. Instead of the Great Lakes operation, Mallory authorized a small privateering action on the Chesapeake Bay. Led by “Captain” Beall, the operation damaged or destroyed several ships under the protection of the U.S. Navy. For his part in organizing the raids, Beall became known as the “Terror of the Chesapeake.” After Union forces captured Beall and his men, the War Department prepared to try them as pirates. But Secretary of War Edwin Stanton backed down, and Beall was later freed in a prisoner exchange. Organizing another privateering operation on the Great Lakes, Beall had some early successes on the water. He then hatched a plan to derail a passenger train transporting Confederate prisoners of war near Niagara, New York, but was captured before he could carry out the mission. The Union army charged Beall with conspiracy, found him guilty, and executed him. Harris’s history of Beall offers a new view of paramilitary efforts by civilians to support the Confederacy. Though little remembered today, Beall was a legendary figure in the Civil War South, so much so that his execution was on John Wilkes Booth’s list of reasons to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Based on exhaustive research in primary and secondary sources and placed in the context of more extensive Confederate guerrilla operations, Confederate Privateer is sure to be of interest to Civil War scholars and general readers interested in the conflict.
Book Synopsis The Militia of the Seas by : Valerie Samantha Buford
Download or read book The Militia of the Seas written by Valerie Samantha Buford and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This theses presents a survey of the Confederate privateers, providing descriptions of the vessels and their careers. In addition to biographies of each privateer, the study includes transcriptions of the original documents from which many of the statistics are obtained.
Book Synopsis The Confederate Privateers by : William Morrison Robinson (Jr)
Download or read book The Confederate Privateers written by William Morrison Robinson (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast by : Lindley S. Butler
Download or read book Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast written by Lindley S. Butler and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina possesses one of the longest, most treacherous coastlines in the United States, and the waters off its shores have been the scene of some of the most dramatic episodes of piracy and sea warfare in the nation's history. Now, Lindley Butler brings this fascinating aspect of the state's maritime heritage vividly to life. He offers engaging biographical portraits of some of the most famous pirates, privateers, and naval raiders to ply the Carolina waters. Covering 150 years, from the golden age of piracy in the 1700s to the extraordinary transformation of naval warfare ushered in by the Civil War, Butler sketches the lives of eight intriguing characters: the pirate Blackbeard and his contemporary Stede Bonnet; privateer Otway Burns and naval raider Johnston Blakeley; and Confederate raiders James Cooke, John Maffitt, John Taylor Wood, and James Waddell. Penetrating the myths that have surrounded these legendary figures, he uncovers the compelling true stories of their lives and adventures.
Book Synopsis The Confederate Privateers, by William Morrison Robinson,... by : William Morrison Robinson (jr.)
Download or read book The Confederate Privateers, by William Morrison Robinson,... written by William Morrison Robinson (jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Confederate Privateers by : George N. Malpass
Download or read book The Confederate Privateers written by George N. Malpass and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis England and the Confederate Privateers by : Edward A. Yellis
Download or read book England and the Confederate Privateers written by Edward A. Yellis and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Private Confederacies by : James J. Broomall
Download or read book Private Confederacies written by James J. Broomall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? As James J. Broomall shows, the crisis of the war forced a reconfiguration of the emotional worlds of the men who took up arms for the South. Raised in an antebellum culture that demanded restraint and shaped white men to embrace self-reliant masculinity, Confederate soldiers lived and fought within military units where they experienced the traumatic strain of combat and its privations together--all the while being separated from suffering families. Military service provoked changes that escalated with the end of slavery and the Confederacy's military defeat. Returning to civilian life, Southern veterans questioned themselves as never before, sometimes suffering from terrible self-doubt. Drawing on personal letters and diaries, Broomall argues that the crisis of defeat ultimately necessitated new forms of expression between veterans and among men and women. On the one hand, war led men to express levels of emotionality and vulnerability previously assumed the domain of women. On the other hand, these men also embraced a virulent, martial masculinity that they wielded during Reconstruction and beyond to suppress freed peoples and restore white rule through paramilitary organizations and the Ku Klux Klan.
Book Synopsis The Confederacy on Trial by : Mark A. Weitz
Download or read book The Confederacy on Trial written by Mark A. Weitz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hazards and costs to other persons are of no concern to the lawyer, who must not regard alarm, the torments, the destruction which he may bring others. ... He must go on reckless of the consequences, though it may be his unhappy fate to involve his country in the confusion.--Lord Brougham"--P. [v].
Book Synopsis The Private Civil War by : Randall C. Jimerson
Download or read book The Private Civil War written by Randall C. Jimerson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have given much attention to the Civil War’s prominent players—its generals, politicians, and other public leaders—but they have devoted less attention to the common soldiers and civilians—the “plain folk”—who actively participated in the conflict. In his study of popular thought during the Civil War era, Randall C. Jimerson offers a grass-roots perspective on the war by examining the thoughts and ideas of these ordinary men and women. The Private Civil War derives much of its power from the author’s deft use of personal letters and diaries. Separated from home and family, virtually every soldier and many civilians wrote frequent and informative letters or recorded daily experiences and thoughts in journals. Jimerson has consulted a broad cross section of these documents, culling information from letters and diaries written by people from every state and from all social classes and military ranks. These documents, remarkable in many instances for their depth of feeling and eloquence, provide rich, detailed information about sectional perceptions and ideology as well as many private reflections.
Download or read book Confederate Privateers (1861) written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Naval Strategy During The American Civil War by : Col. David J. Murphy USAF
Download or read book Naval Strategy During The American Civil War written by Col. David J. Murphy USAF and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of the research project is to examine how the Union and Confederate naval strategies and new naval technologies affected the conduct of the American Civil War. With regard to the Union Navy’s strategy, the effectiveness of the blockade, Western River Campaign, and amphibious operations were examined. Discussions on the Union blockade also touch on the effectiveness on Confederate blockade runners. The Confederate strategies of using privateers and commerce raiders are examined. Confederate coastal and river defenses are examined within the context of new technology, specifically with respect to ironclad ships and the use of mines, torpedoes, and submarines. The paper shows how naval strategy did play a major role in the outcome of the Civil War. Although it cannot be said that naval strategies were singularly decisive, they certainly were vitally important and often overlooked in history books.
Book Synopsis Confederate Privateer, Part One by : Chris Clearman
Download or read book Confederate Privateer, Part One written by Chris Clearman and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Thomas James is facing his long overdue death in battle as the United States devolves into the ordeal known as the Civil War. Outgoing President James Buchanan, Old Buck, confers one last favor upon his favorite privateersman: a million dollars in federal contracts to deliver arms and munitions to the South's army garrisons and navy depots. Our Tom smells war; profitable war if only he can get his hands upon a letter of marquis and reprisal. Anybody's letter will do: Confederate, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, or South Carolina. He's not too proud to kiss some governor's hind end. Hell, if it would get him out to sea he'd kiss a plow mule's flanks and thank his lucky stars. Of course, Our Tom won't prize just any old Yankee merchantman. He'll concentrate upon his enemies. First, he'll take Aspinwall and Howland's Panama packets filled with California gold. Second, he'll seize Martin Van Buren Butler's tea clippers incoming from Shanghai. Third, he'll lie to off the Battery to snatch up every last puke out of New York. Of course, all his enemies will connive to provide Cap'n James with three wishes: death by land or by sea is their chieftest wish followed by sinking all his privateers; and last but not least, flinging his midshipman sons into Fort Warren Prison which squats smack-dab in the middle of Boston Harbor. Massachusetts Governor Andrew already gloats about how much gold he can blackmail out of Tom merely by threatening to hang all these James family "Misters of blisters and masters of disasters." But all these enemies fail to take into account the womenfolk who truly love their Mormon Tom. Yes, dear reader, Our Tom's headcount of wives has arisen to eight. This doesn't count his concubines, mistresses, and dalliances; not-to-mention all his slave girls from the Orient. Since Americans only have a fleeting acquaintance with harems owned by sultans and caliphs, they must turn to an example of polygamy they see every day upon the streets of their towns: Mormons with more than the one wife God granted Adam in the Garden of Eden. In Boston the Abolitionist she-dragons of Beacon Hill will snub him in public, whilst in private their husbands sneak through his backdoor to beg for a handout. In the South, the haughty belles of planter society would dearly love to ostracize Captain James; except for the fact that he's rich as Croesus and makes such an outré centerpiece for their soirées.
Book Synopsis Confederate Privateer, Part Two by : Chris Clearman
Download or read book Confederate Privateer, Part Two written by Chris Clearman and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Thomas James is facing his long overdue death in battle as the United States devolves into the ordeal known as the Civil War. He won't go quietly into that dark night. Nope, he'll concentrate upon his enemies joining him for an even hotter spot in hell. First, he took Aspinwall and Howland's Panama packets filled with California gold. Second, he seized Martin Van Buren Butler's tea clippers incoming from Shanghai. Third, he snatch up every last puke out of New York.But his rendezvous with death has taken a turn due to his old Mexican-American War buddy, Jefferson Davis. It seems T.J.'s bullyboys, arsenals, munitions, and surgeon's skills are needed east of the Mighty Mississippi. So here we go, off to a little known hamlet famed for growing peaches. Tom, his father, his grandfather, and every last man west of the Achafalaya must rendezvous at a one-story church constituting the premier attraction in downtown Shiloh.
