Civil War Adventures of a Blockade Runner
William Watson spent two years evading Union gunboats and dealing with the sharpers who fed off the misfortune of the Civil War. In 1892, using log books, personal papers, and business memoranda, he published this plain, blunt, account of events just as they happened. The result was 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…
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Weitere Autoren: Arnold, J. Barto (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-58544-152-5
- EAN: 9781585441525
- Produktnummer: 9598647
- Verlag: Texas A & M Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 348 S.
- Masse: H20.6 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.6 cm 395 g
- Auflage: Texas A&m Univ
- Gewicht: 395
Über den Autor
A British subject, WILLIAM WATSON lived and worked in the South prior to the outbreak of war in 1861. Although he opposed secession, he served with the Confederate army. Wounded at the battle of Corinth and subsequently declared unfit for further service, he found his way to New Orleans and blockade running. He recounted his service with the Confederacy in Life in the Confederate Army.
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