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.
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.
Download or read book The Confederate Privateers written by William Morrison Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
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 172 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.
Download or read book The Sphinx of the Confederacy Part Two Revolution written by F. J. Freitag and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-10-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South had won a resounding victory at Manassas in July of 1861. Since then, however, the fledgling nation has lost huge chunks of territory and strategic military outposts. Jefferson Davis is repeatedly forced to fight with limited supplies of war materials and without reserves. Enemies from the North are not the Confederate presidents only problem. He also has to contend with his proliferating political enemies, and he is forced to face them from an increasingly weakening position. His staunchest ally, Judah Benjamin, who played the martyr and took the blame for the loss of Roanoke Island, also comes under attack, and Davis is forced to make some difficult decisions regarding his minister. Moreover, Benjamins attraction to the First Lady continues to develop as the two are often thrown together socially and politically. Once, when they are working on a coded message to the Confederate minister in France, she breaks into tears and admits to Benjamin that her husband is cold and aloof. He moves to comfort her, but she breaks away and asks him to leave. In the meantime, Davis slave, Rachel, has permitted herself to get romantically involved with Colonel Chestnuts body servant, Lawrence, in an attempt to forget Silas, the beau she left behind at Davis plantation. Silas, however, has run away and joined the Union army. Because of his ties to Rachel, the Union sends him to Richmond to get her to listen in on conversations in the Confederate White House. He manages to displace Lawrence and enlists Rachels help just before General Lee, President Davis, and his ministers gather in the White House to discuss Lees plans to invade the North. Once again, masters and slaves, politicians and generals are inextricably bound together. This time their individual fortunes are propelled relentlessly toward Lees fated meeting with the Union army at Gettysburg.
Download or read book Southern Historical Society Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Last Confederate Ship at Sea written by Paul Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CSS Shenandoah fired the last shot of the Civil War and was the only Confederate warship to circumnavigate the globe. But what was Captain James Waddell's true relationship with his Yankee prisoner Lillias Nichols and how did it determine the ship's final destination? Without orders, Waddell undertook a dangerous three month voyage through waters infested with enemy cruisers. He risked mutiny by a horrified crew who, having been declared pirates, could be hanged. This is the true story behind the cruise of the Shenandoah--one of secret love and blackmail--brought to light for the first time in 150 years.
Download or read book Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion Series II written by Anonymous and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes the Confederate Navy Department Correspondence with Agents abroad, 1861-1865
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Download or read book REBEL YELL History of the Confederacy Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders Official Documents written by Jefferson Davis and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-09-03 with total page 3220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited collection offers you the true accounts about the Confederate States of America, including documents that were most influential for the creation of the states and the life stories of its principal leaders and officers. "The History of the Confederate States of America" and "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" represent the best source for understanding the background, the creation, fight and the ultimate defeat, written by the President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis. The collection also includes memoirs and biographies of the Confederate Leaders: Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee & Heros von Borcke. Finally, this collection is enriched with the most pivotal documents of the Confederate States. Contents: History of the Confederate States of America The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Memoirs & Biographies: Jefferson Davis by Frank H. Alfriend Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke Memoirs of Heros von Borcke Official Documents of the Confederate States: Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America Constitution of the Confederate States of America The Address of the People of South Carolina assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States South Carolina Ordinance of Secession Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union Mississippi Ordinance of Secession Florida Ordinance of Secession Alabama Ordinance of Secession Georgia Ordinance of Secession Louisiana Ordinance of Secession Texas Ordinance of Secession Arizona Territory Ordinance of Secession Virginia Ordinance of Secession Arkansas Ordinance of Secession North Carolina Ordinance of Secession Tennessee Ordinance of Secession Missouri Ordinance of Secession Kentucky Ordinance of Secession Dix-Hill Cartel Robert E. Lee's Letter Announcing Surrender ...
Download or read book America s Naval Heritage written by Thomas Truxtun Moebs and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface--Established in 1800 with a small collection of books that served the Secretary of the Navy, the [Navy Department Library] holds the most comprehensive collection of U.S. navy literature. For the past two hundred years, it has collected the books, documents, journals, and manuscripts the record the Navy's achievement in combat, international diplomacy, exploration, technological development, medicine, education, and social reform. This literature described in the catalog chronicles the more significant events, customs and traditions, organizations, and personalities in navel history, providing insight into the origins and development of Navy doctrine.
Download or read book Foreigners in the Confederacy written by Ella Lonn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confederate armies included in their ranks a remarkable range of nationalities--among them Germans, Irish, Italians, French, Poles, Mexicans, Cubans, Hungarians, Russians, Swedes, Danes, and Chinese. Covering the complete story of the activities of th
Download or read book Civil War Naval Chronology 1861 1865 written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part IV of the Civil War Naval Chronology - a summary of significant events from 1861-1865.
Download or read book Cruise of the Confederate Privateer Mariner written by Francis Asbury Lumsden Cassidey and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence Concerning Claims Against Great Britain General appendix Parliamentary and judicial appendix written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
