Civil War Blockade Running on the Texas Coast

Author: Andrew W. Hall
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625850247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
In the last months of the American Civil War, the upper Texas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was often considered an isolated backwater in the conflict, the Union's pervasive and systematic seizure of Southern ports left Galveston as one of the only strongholds of foreign imports in the anemic supply chain to embattled Confederate forces. Long, fast steamships ran in and out of the city's port almost every week, bound to and from Cuba. Join author Andrew W. Hall as he explores the story of Texas's Civil War blockade runners--a story of daring, of desperation and, in many cases, of patriotism turning coat to profiteering.

Lifeline of the Confederacy

Author: Stephen R. Wise
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9780872497993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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

Waters of Discord

Author: Rodman L. Underwood
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786437766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
At the beginning of the American Civil War the Federal government imposed a blockade of the southern coast of the Confederate States of America, including the "dark corner of the Confederacy"--Texas. Much of the fighting in Texas during the Civil War took place in the state's coastal counties and the adjoining Gulf of Mexico waters, and nearly all of these engagements were involved in one way or another with the Union blockade of the Texas coast. This book examines all major blockade-related land and sea engagements in and near Texas, and also includes many minor ones. It begins with a discussion of the blockade's creation and then concentrates on the successful Confederate efforts to evade the blockade by shipping cotton out of Mexico and, in return, receiving materiel and civilian goods through that neutral nation. The author also covers political intrigue and the spy activity with the French who had invaded Mexico. The book concludes with an analysis of the effectiveness of the Union blockade of Texas.

Cottonclads!

Author: Donald Shaw Frazier
Publisher: State House Press
ISBN: 9781886661097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
A detailed account of the innovative and daring tacticat of the Confederates as they boldly attacked the Union fleet to lift the Federal blockade of Texas.

Running the Blockade

Author: Thomas E. Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
A Civil War personal narrative that presents to us from the pen of a principal actor the most complete account we have of a great blockade in the days of steam.

Civil War Scoundrels and the Texas Cotton Trade

Author: Walter E. Wilson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476640386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
During the Civil War, scoundrels from both the Union and Confederate sides were able to execute illicit, but ingenious, schemes to acquire Texas cotton. Texas was the only Confederate state that bordered a neutral country, it was never forcibly conquered, and its coast was impossible to effectively blockade. Using little known contemporary sources, this story reveals how charlatans exploited these conditions to run the blockade, import machinery and weapons, and defraud the state's most prominent political, military and civilian leaders in the process. Best known for his role in the romantic entanglements of his co-conspirator William Sprague, Harris Hoyt stands out due to his sharp intellect and fascinating character. Hoyt was able to draw most of Abraham Lincoln's inner circle into his web of deceit and even influenced the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. This is the first account to expose the depth and breadth of the many Texas cotton trading scams and the sheer audacity of the shadowy men who profited from them, but managed to escape the gallows.

"Schooner Sail to Starboard"

Author: William Theo Block
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887745086
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description

The adventures of a blockade runner; or, Trade in time of war

Author: William Watson (of Skelmorlie.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description

Battle on the Bay

Author: Edward Terrel Cotham
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292712057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
The Civil War history of Galveston is one of the last untold stories from America's bloodiest war, despite the fact that Galveston was a focal point of hostilities throughout the conflict. As other Southern ports fell to the Union, Galveston emerged as one of the Confederacy's only lifelines to the outside world. When the war ended in 1865, Galveston was the only major port still in Confederate hands. In this beautifully written narrative history, Ed Cotham draws upon years of archival and on-site research, as well as rare historical photographs, drawings, and maps, to chronicle the Civil War years in Galveston. His story encompasses all the military engagements that took place in the city and on Galveston Bay, including the dramatic Battle of Galveston, in which Confederate forces retook the city on New Year's Day, 1863. Cotham sets the events in Galveston within the overall conduct of the war, revealing how the city's loss was a great strategic impediment to the North. Through his pages pass major figures of the era, as well as ordinary soldiers, sailors, and citizens of Galveston, whose courage in the face of privation and danger adds an inspiring dimension to the story.

The Civil War at Sea

Author: Craig L. Symonds
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199931682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Continuing in the vein of the Lincoln-prize winning Lincoln and His Admirals, acclaimed naval historian Craig L. Symonds presents an operational history of the Civil War navies - both Union and Confederate - in this concise volume. Illuminating how various aspects of the naval engagement influenced the trajectory of the war as a whole, The Civil War at Sea adds to our understanding of America's great national conflict. Both the North and the South developed and deployed hundreds of warships between 1861 and 1865. Because the Civil War coincided with a revolution in naval techonology, the development and character of warfare at sea from 1861-1865 was dramatic and unprecedented. Rather than a simple chronology of the war at sea, Symonds addresses the story of the naval war topically, from the dramatic transformation wrought by changes in technology to the establishment, management, and impact of blockade. He also offers critical assessments of principal figures in the naval war, from the opposing secretaries of the navy to leading operational commanders such as David Glasgow Farragut and Raphael Semmes. Symonds brings his expertise and knowledge of military and technological history to bear in this essential exploration of American naval engagement throughout the Civil War.