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 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 1994 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pirates Privateers and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast written by Lindley S. Butler and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina possesses one of the longest, most treacherous coastlines in the United States, and the waters off its shores have been the scene of some of the most dramatic episodes of piracy and sea warfare in the nation's history. Now, Lindley Butler brings this fascinating aspect of the state's maritime heritage vividly to life. He offers engaging biographical portraits of some of the most famous pirates, privateers, and naval raiders to ply the Carolina waters. Covering 150 years, from the golden age of piracy in the 1700s to the extraordinary transformation of naval warfare ushered in by the Civil War, Butler sketches the lives of eight intriguing characters: the pirate Blackbeard and his contemporary Stede Bonnet; privateer Otway Burns and naval raider Johnston Blakeley; and Confederate raiders James Cooke, John Maffitt, John Taylor Wood, and James Waddell. Penetrating the myths that have surrounded these legendary figures, he uncovers the compelling true stories of their lives and adventures.
Download or read book The Confederate Privateers by William Morrison Robinson written by William Morrison Robinson (jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Militia of the Seas written by Valerie Samantha Buford and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This theses presents a survey of the Confederate privateers, providing descriptions of the vessels and their careers. In addition to biographies of each privateer, the study includes transcriptions of the original documents from which many of the statistics are obtained.
Download or read book Private Confederacies written by James J. Broomall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? As James J. Broomall shows, the crisis of the war forced a reconfiguration of the emotional worlds of the men who took up arms for the South. Raised in an antebellum culture that demanded restraint and shaped white men to embrace self-reliant masculinity, Confederate soldiers lived and fought within military units where they experienced the traumatic strain of combat and its privations together--all the while being separated from suffering families. Military service provoked changes that escalated with the end of slavery and the Confederacy's military defeat. Returning to civilian life, Southern veterans questioned themselves as never before, sometimes suffering from terrible self-doubt. Drawing on personal letters and diaries, Broomall argues that the crisis of defeat ultimately necessitated new forms of expression between veterans and among men and women. On the one hand, war led men to express levels of emotionality and vulnerability previously assumed the domain of women. On the other hand, these men also embraced a virulent, martial masculinity that they wielded during Reconstruction and beyond to suppress freed peoples and restore white rule through paramilitary organizations and the Ku Klux Klan.
Download or read book The Confederate Privateers written by William Morrison Robinson (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebel Private Front and Rear written by William A. Fletcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent rediscovery of Rebel Private: Front and Rear, effectively lost for decades, marks an authentic publishing event in the literature of the Civil War. A rare insight into the conflict from the point of view of a Confederate army enlisted man, this compelling memoir has been hailed by historians as a classic and indispensible key to understanding the Southern perspective. Margaret Mitchell even described it as her single most valuable source of research for Gone With the Wind. This stunning document is the work of a common foot soldier blessed with extraordinary perception and articulateness. After joining the famed Texas Brigade under Stonewall Jackson. Private William A. Fletcher saw action at Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Channcellorsville, and Chickamauga. He was wounded several times and escaped from a moving Union prison train before the South's surrender. In 1907, he published this powerfully evocative account of his exploits, a volume of frank, detailed recollections that spares none of the horror, courage, or absurdity of war. But a fire destroyed all but a few copies before they could be distributed. One copy, however, did make its way to the Library of Congress, where it was eventually discovered. Today, this colorful work has become the voice of the Civil War front-line grunt, speaking to the modern reader with the intensity of personal experience and a vividness of detail that gives it a riveting you-are-there quality.
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 195 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 Private Civil War written by Randall C. Jimerson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have given much attention to the Civil War’s prominent players—its generals, politicians, and other public leaders—but they have devoted less attention to the common soldiers and civilians—the “plain folk”—who actively participated in the conflict. In his study of popular thought during the Civil War era, Randall C. Jimerson offers a grass-roots perspective on the war by examining the thoughts and ideas of these ordinary men and women. The Private Civil War derives much of its power from the author’s deft use of personal letters and diaries. Separated from home and family, virtually every soldier and many civilians wrote frequent and informative letters or recorded daily experiences and thoughts in journals. Jimerson has consulted a broad cross section of these documents, culling information from letters and diaries written by people from every state and from all social classes and military ranks. These documents, remarkable in many instances for their depth of feeling and eloquence, provide rich, detailed information about sectional perceptions and ideology as well as many private reflections.
Download or read book The Mysterious Private Thompson written by Laura Leedy Gansler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible account of how one heroic woman defied convention in 19th-century America to live, work, and defend her country at a time of war, when women were barely allowed out of the house.
Download or read book Confederate Privateer Part One written by Chris Clearman and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 514 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. Outgoing President James Buchanan, Old Buck, confers one last favor upon his favorite privateersman: a million dollars in federal contracts to deliver arms and munitions to the South's army garrisons and navy depots. Our Tom smells war; profitable war if only he can get his hands upon a letter of marquis and reprisal. Anybody's letter will do: Confederate, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, or South Carolina. He's not too proud to kiss some governor's hind end. Hell, if it would get him out to sea he'd kiss a plow mule's flanks and thank his lucky stars. Of course, Our Tom won't prize just any old Yankee merchantman. He'll concentrate upon his enemies. First, he'll take Aspinwall and Howland's Panama packets filled with California gold. Second, he'll seize Martin Van Buren Butler's tea clippers incoming from Shanghai. Third, he'll lie to off the Battery to snatch up every last puke out of New York. Of course, all his enemies will connive to provide Cap'n James with three wishes: death by land or by sea is their chieftest wish followed by sinking all his privateers; and last but not least, flinging his midshipman sons into Fort Warren Prison which squats smack-dab in the middle of Boston Harbor. Massachusetts Governor Andrew already gloats about how much gold he can blackmail out of Tom merely by threatening to hang all these James family "Misters of blisters and masters of disasters." But all these enemies fail to take into account the womenfolk who truly love their Mormon Tom. Yes, dear reader, Our Tom's headcount of wives has arisen to eight. This doesn't count his concubines, mistresses, and dalliances; not-to-mention all his slave girls from the Orient. Since Americans only have a fleeting acquaintance with harems owned by sultans and caliphs, they must turn to an example of polygamy they see every day upon the streets of their towns: Mormons with more than the one wife God granted Adam in the Garden of Eden. In Boston the Abolitionist she-dragons of Beacon Hill will snub him in public, whilst in private their husbands sneak through his backdoor to beg for a handout. In the South, the haughty belles of planter society would dearly love to ostracize Captain James; except for the fact that he's rich as Croesus and makes such an outré centerpiece for their soirées.
Download or read book The Confederate Privateers written by George N. Malpass and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Years in the Confederate Artillery written by Henry Robinson Berkeley and published by Virginia Histotical Society. This book was released on 1961 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book England and the Confederate Privateers written by Edward A. Yellis and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confederate Privateers 1861 written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
