[PDF] A Scottish Blockade Runner In The American Civil War eBook

Author : John F. Messner
Publisher : Whittles
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 2021-03-26
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ISBN : 9781849954822

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The untold story of Joannes Wyllie, son of a gardener from Fife, one of the most successful blockade runners of the American Civil War Features his life of adventure and action; he was once declared dead, survived shipwrecks and shark attack, and successfully commanded ships across the globe The most comprehensive history of the Ad-Vance is provided, from departing Glasgow until capture off the Carolina coast

Author : J. Wilkinson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : History
ISBN :

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"The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner" by J. Wilkinson is a story about a Confederate Naval Officer that spent some time as a Commanding Officer of two different blockade runners during the American Civil War. These personal accounts are still engaging and relevant over 150 years after they were first written. Though everything in this book is factual, it reads like an adventure novel that could be complete fiction.

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 1293 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936365707

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It’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail that recall Doctorow and Deadwood both, A Moment in the Sun takes the whole era in its sights—from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in the Philippines. Beginning with Hod Brackenridge searching for his fortune in the North, and hurtling forward on the voices of a breathtaking range of men and women—Royal Scott, an African American infantryman whose life outside the military has been destroyed; Diosdado Concepcíon, a Filipino insurgent fighting against his country’s new colonizers; and more than a dozen others, Mark Twain and President McKinley’s assassin among them—this is a story as big as its subject: history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen.

Author : Eric J. Graham
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :

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Using contemporary accounts and individual case studies, 'Clydebuilt' presents an account of Scotland's involvement in the American Civil War Blockade, an involvement which almost certainly prolonged the conflict by several years.

Author : Ann Larabee
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2005-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403967947

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The Dynamite Fiend brings to light the stunning story behind one of the most devious criminals of the nineteenth century, Alexander "Sandy" Keith. Beginning his dark career as a Confederate secret agent, Keith helped orchestrate some of the most infamous terrorist plots of the Civil War. In peacetime, dogged by creditors and victims of his frauds, Keith kept on the move, leaving more scams, schemes, and cheated women in his wake. As his situation became more desperate, his obsession with explosives and violence became more intense, leading to a horrifying plot that he put together while posing as a prosperous American businessman living in Germany. In 1875, one of Keith's bombs exploded on a dock, killing eighty people and injuring fifty more. The world heralded the deed as the "Crime of the Century" and Keith became the "Dynamite Fiend" and a true mass murderer. In The Dynamite Fiend, author Ann Larabee unfolds this engrossing tale of hidden identity, technological obsession, and an unparalleled lust for power and profit.

Author : Stephen R. Wise
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872497993

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One of the finest original works on the Civil War. -- Civil War News