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High Seas And Yankee Gunboats: A Blockade-Running Adventure From The Diary Of James Dickson (Studies in Maritime History)
Roger S. Durham
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Hardcover. The adventures of two men from Savannah, Georgia, who sought to breach the Federal blockade early in the Civil War. Roger S. Durham draws from James Dickson's 1862 Civil War diary to frame the story of the young sailor's travels with his friend, Thomas L. Hernandez, from New Jersey to Nova Scotia to the coast of Georgia. Num Pages: 544 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 435.
High Seas and Yankee Gunboats tells of the harrowing adventures of two men from Savannah, Georgia, who sought to breach the Federal blockade early in the Civil War. Roger S. Durham draws from James Dickson's 1862 Civil War diary to frame the story of the young sailor's travels with his friend, Thomas L. Hernandez, from New Jersey to Nova Scotia to the coast of Georgia. Using Dickson's diary and other primary source materials, Durham expertly recounts their remarkable voyage and makes available a firsthand vantage point of the early war years in which blockade runners enjoyed their greatest success. Durham ... Read more
High Seas and Yankee Gunboats tells of the harrowing adventures of two men from Savannah, Georgia, who sought to breach the Federal blockade early in the Civil War. Roger S. Durham draws from James Dickson's 1862 Civil War diary to frame the story of the young sailor's travels with his friend, Thomas L. Hernandez, from New Jersey to Nova Scotia to the coast of Georgia. Using Dickson's diary and other primary source materials, Durham expertly recounts their remarkable voyage and makes available a firsthand vantage point of the early war years in which blockade runners enjoyed their greatest success. Durham ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Univ of South Carolina Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570035722
SKU
V9781570035722
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Roger S. Durham
(Carlisle, PA) Director of the U.S. Army Heritage Museum in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Editor of The Blues in Gray: The Civil War Journal of William Daniel Dixon and the Republican Blues Daybook and A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, a Confederate Soldier from Maine.
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