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Recollections of a Rebel reefer / by James Morris Morgan.
LIBRA 973.75 M822
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection E596 .M84
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan, James Morris, 1845-1928, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morgan, James Morris, 1845-1928--Biography.
- Morgan, James Morris.
- Georgia (Confederate cruiser).
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- Morgan, James Morris, 1845-1928.
- Military operations, Naval.
- Local Subjects:
- Georgia (Confederate cruiser).
- Genre:
- Personal narratives
- Biographies
- History
- Personal narratives -- Confederate
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 491 pages : frontpiece, plates, portraits ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917.
- Summary:
- Includes a narrative of service on the Confederate cruiser Georgia, 1863-1864.
- This is the story of the life of James Morgan, a member of the Confederate Navy in his youth and whom later became a farmer in South Carolina. It includes a narrative of his service on the Confederate cruiser Georgia, 1863-1864.
- Contents:
- Childhood
- Unlucky in love
- Annapolis
- Out of the United States Navy
- Arrive in New Orleans
- Volunteers
- The sloop of war McRae arrives at Baton Rouge
- The McRae made flagship of the Mississippi flotilla
- Farragut's fleet at New Orleans
- Charleston
- Run through the U.S. blockading fleet
- Liverpool
- White Haven
- The Doldrums
- "Tempest in a teapot"
- Barren island of Trinidad
- Simon's Town
- Mr. Trenholm and others of Mr. Davis's cabinet imprisoned in Fort Pulaski
- Try cotton-planing with the usual sailor's success
- Receive a commission as captain in the Egyptian Army
- The Egyptian Army
- Egyptian Army splendidly drilled in manual of arms and tactics
- Khedive always just to the American officers, but it was difficult to obtain an audience with him
- Ratib Pasha
- The Franco-Prussian War
- Return to America
- The name Galapagos inspires the preacher
- Corrupt judiciary
- Cotton-picking by moonlight
- Friendly shooting match
- Captain Dawson, editor of the Charleston News and Courier denounces Bowen as the assassin of Colonel White
- Exciting political campaign of 1875
- General M.C. Butler elected U.S. Senator by Democratic legislature
- Fighting Bob Evans get me employment with Governor Alexander R. Shepherd and I go to Mexico
- Resign potion as chief of conductas and start for home via Mazatlan and San Francisco
- Leon, the city whose sole industry is the carving of leather and making of saddles
- Return to Tampico and get shipwrecked on the bar
- Not even any money in oil, when I am interested
- My appointment as consul-general arouses great indignation among Southern office-seekers
- Sydney's beautiful harbor
- Impecunious globe-trotters
- Vast estates
- Sir Henry Loch gives a fancy dress ball in honor of the Queen's Jubilee
- Cedarcrof
- Visit Mrs. Jefferson Davis in New York
- The hero of Manila Bay
- The "birth of a nation."
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Morgan, James Morris, 1845-1928. Recollections of a Rebel reefer.
- OCLC:
- 585312
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