 Author: Watson, William
Title: The Civil War Adventures of a Blockade Runner
Binding: paperback
Book Condition: new
Publisher: College Station, TX Texas A&M University Press 2001
ISBN: 158544152X / 9781585441525
Book Number: N00495
348 pages. "William Watson spent two years evading Union gunboats
and dealing with the "sharpers" who fed off the misfortune
of the Civil War. In 1892, using log books, personal papers,
and business memoranda, he published this "plain, blunt,"
account of "events just as they happened." The result was a
classic adventure tale whose careful description of seafaring
in the 1860s gives us a glimpse into a world now closed to us."
Price =
17.95 USD |
