The Building of the Confederate States Navy in Europe
Author : Herbert Henry Todd
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1941
Category : United States
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Author : Herbert Henry Todd
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1941
Category : United States
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Author : Warren F. Spencer
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817308612
"A major contribution to Civil War and naval history". -- Journal of Southern History
Author : Julia Lillian Vivian
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 1928
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Author : James Dunwody Bulloch
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Confederate States of America
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Author : James D. Bulloch
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2012-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0307824071
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis sent merchant marine James D. Bulloch to Europe to clandestinely acquire arms and ships for the Confederate navy. His first stop was Britain, a country hedging its bets on who would win the War Between the States and willing to secretly provide the Confederacy with the naval technology to fight the Union on the high seas. Bulloch's mission continued for the length of the war, and his story, told by the man himself, is one of the least-understood aspects of the Civil War, even today.
Author : James Dunwody Bulloch
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Confederate States of America
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The American Civil war was a major event in international affairs, and its great drama was played out not only on the American battlegrounds but in Europe and on four of the world's five oceans. This work details the doings of the Secret Service of the Confederate States of America and various Confederate naval battles.
Author : Philip Van Doren Stern
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 1962
Category : United States
ISBN :
At the beginning of the Civil War, the Confederate Navy was a very small collection of nearly anything that would float -- mostly small, unmilitary vessels and a few captured Union ships; there was not one real warship in the fleet. The North had men-of-war and a large fleet of merchant ships that could be armed quickly. As a result, the North was soon able to blockade the Southern coast and capture port after port. But the South fought back ingeniously, sending agents to England and France to have the finest warships built, innovating such modern weapons as the torpedo, the submarine, and the armored warship -- all of which changed the nature of naval warfare.
Author : James D. Bulloch
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 1883
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Author : Raimondo Luraghi
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
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Pushing aside the long-held belief that the answers went up in flames when the Confederate Navy archives were torched during the evacuation of Richmond, Luraghi combed fifty archives in four countries and uncovered information that shattered prevailing myths about that service's contributions.
Author : James Dunwody Bulloch
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230415895
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...ten days from date of release, and that while in the United States we will commit no hostile act, ' and I left the fort for the steamer Canada. It may be of importance to state that we were officially informed by Major Gibson, commanding the Post part of the time we were there, that we could hold no communication with the Brazilian authorities. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Thomas K. Porter, First-Lieutenant, Confederate States Navy. CHAPTER V. The building of the Alabama.--Suspicions of the United States Consul at Liverpool.--Captain Butcher.--The equipping of the Alabama.--Quitting Liverpool.--Bond, the Pilot.--Official Correspondence.--Captain Semmes.--The Alabama handed over to his charge.--Some matters connected with the clearance of the Alabama from Liverpool.--Mr. Price Edwards, the Collector of Customs at that Port.--The Alabama's first engagement.--The Alabama a legitimate vessel-of-war.--Action of the United States in regard to commissioning vessels at sea.--Influence of the cruisers on the United States carrying trade.--The Alabama's action with the Keasarge.--Mr. Seward and Earl Russell. Writing subjectively, and following the career of the Florida from her birth on the busy but peaceful shores of the Mersey to her violent seizure in Bahia, and thence to her final resting-place among the oyster-beds in the estuary of the River James, the narrative has been carried far beyond the regular course of events, and we must now return to March, 1862, and pick up that thread of the history which was woven into the general occurrences of the period by the Alabama. At the time of the Florida's departure from Liverpool, her still more famous consort had not yet been dignified by any other name or title than the dockyard number..