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More than three hundred steamers made over 1,300 attempts to run the blockade during the Civil War. Many of these were normal merchant vessels, but an ever-increasing number were purpose-built, with low silhouettes, light draft, and high speed. ... One of the first purpose-built blockade runners, and one of the first...
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American Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The American Civil War (1861–1865), also known as the War Between the States and several other names, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their s...
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The Blockade Runner "Nashville" Running the Civil War Bockade at Beaufort North Carolina ... Civil War Harper's Weekly, April 5, 1862 ... THE REBEL STEAMER "NASHVILLE" RUNNING THE BLOCKADE AT BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA.- [SEE NEXT PAGE.]
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but skilful pilots were always at the command of the blockade-runners. Nassau was a place of no special importance before the war. Its inhabitants lived chiefly by fishing and wrecking. But with the demands of the moment, it suddenly became a commercial emporium.
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During the early part of the war blockade-running was carried on front the Capes of the Chesapeake to the mouth of the Rio Grande. It was done by vessels of all sorts and sizes. ... The short-voyage blockade-runners, destined for the passage between the neutral islands and the blockaded coast, began to make...
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Books in brief/Review ... Civil War blockade runners (Book); Dandelion wine (Book); Walker, David Harry; Commager, Henry Steele; Swiggett, Howard; Burgess, Jackson; Cozzens, James Gould; Letter from Peking (Book); Operation sea lion (Book);
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An insight into the interesting and exhilarating work that awaited such of the boats as survived the passage out across The Atlantic is found in Skelmorlie-born William Watson's delightful "Adventures of A Blockade-runner", in which he describes a trip which he made from Galveston to Tampico towards the close of the war, in ...
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www.scribd.com/doc/19361862/William-Watsons-Eagle-and-Other-US-Civil-War-Blockade-Runners
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Skelmorlie-born William Watson's delightful "Adventures of A Blockade-runner", in which he describes a trip which he made from Galveston to Tampico towards the close of the war, in command of the "Jeanette", formerly the Glasgow and Rothesay passenger steamer "Eagle". ... For successful blockade-running, the boats had to...
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www.scribd.com/doc/19364554/William-Watsons-Eagle-and-Other-US-Civil-War-Blockade-Runners
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Civil War Cat-and-Mouse Game: Researching Blockade-Runners at the National Archives; By Rebecca Livingston; ... Researchers must also remember the secretive nature of Civil War blockade-running. Often paperwork was intentionally destroyed, or false paperwork was created in order to delude possible captors.
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