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Blockade Runners of the Confederacy / Hamilton Cochran ; with a new introduction by Robert M. Browning Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cochran, Hamilton, 1898-1977.
- Series:
- Alabama Fire Ant
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Confederate States of America. Navy--History.
- Confederate States of America.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Blockades.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (363 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A readable, exciting chronicle of the men and ships that ran federal naval blockades during the Civil War Within four weeks of the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln had declared a blockade of over four thousand miles of Confederate coastline, from Cape Henry in Virginia to the Mexican border.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction to the 2005 Edition; 1. The Blockade Begins; 2. Du Pont Plays Hide and Seek; 3. Rich Cargoes; 4. Tom Taylor, Supercargo; 5. Runners of the Gantlet; 6. Ladies in Danger; 7. Beleaguered Cities; 8. White Sails in the Gulf; 9. Captain Maffitt, Prince of Blockade Runners; 10. Pursuits, Escapes and Captures; 11. The Two Battles of Fort Fisher; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index
- Notes:
- Previously published: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [1958].
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-338) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-9050-2
- OCLC:
- 967550306
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