Entrepôt : government imports into the Confederate States / C.L. Webster, III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webster, C. L., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imports.

Confederate States of America--Commerce.

Confederate States of America.

Imports--Confederate States of America.

Confederate States of America. Army--Supplies and stores.

Confederate States of America. Army.

Confederate States of America--Economic conditions.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Blockades.

United States.

History.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

x, 388 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Roseville, Minn. : Edinborough Press, [2009]

Summary:

Examining the history of Civil War blockade running, this unrivalled compilation reveals the arms, equipment, and clothing brought into the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Detailed and comprehensive, this survey offers month-by-month, cargo-by-cargo descriptions of goods received at multiple locations across the United States. From Savannah, Charleston, and Wilmington to Matamoros, Galveston, and Mobile, this reference lists all distribution-the Belgian-made woolen cloth and English rifles that arrived in the farthest reaches of the Trans-Mississippi and the receipt of thousands of British knapsacks, blankets, and cartridge boxes in the winter camps of the struggling Army of Tennessee. A unique depiction of a perilous trade, this record sheds a dramatic light on the surprising pervasiveness of imported war material as well as the effectiveness and sophistication of the Confederate supply system.

Contents:

The arsenal of the world

Savannah, New Smyrna, Nashville & beyond

Wilmington

Charleston

Mobile

Over the river and through the woods : the Trans-Mississippi Dept.

Appendix I: Knapsacks & mess tins in the Cis-Mississippi

Appendix II: English horse equipments records

Appendix III: Richmond Arsenal Store House : English mess tins

Appendix IV: Receipts, issues & memoranda : Richmond Arsenal Store House

Appendix V: Testimony of Mr. Peter Tait

Appendix VI: Summary of small arms importations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781889020372

1889020370

OCLC:

318426995