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  • William Watson and the Rob Roy
    Walter E. Wilson
    The Rob Roy may be the American Civil War’s most famous blockade running schooner. Its fame stems from the spellbinding wartime memoir of its owner and captain, William Watson. This obscure but articulate Scotsman’s rollicking tale is a standard maritime reference for scholars and students of America’s most tragic conflict. However, his sea story is only partly true. It blen...
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    58,64 €

  • Civil War Scoundrels and the Texas Cotton Trade
    Walter E. Wilson
    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 c...
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    57,48 €

  • The Bulloch Belles
    Walter E. Wilson
    The Bulloch women of Roswell, Georgia, were not typical antebellum Southern belles. Most were well educated world travelers skilled at navigating social circles far outside the insular aristocracy of the rural South. Their lives were filled with intrigue, espionage, scandal, adversity and perseverance. During the Civil War they eluded Union spies on land and blockaders at se...
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    42,73 €

  • James D. Bulloch
    Gary L. McKay / Walter E. Wilson
    American naval hero and Confederate secret agent James Dunwoody Bulloch was widely considered the Confederacy’s most dangerous man in Europe. As head of the South’s covert shipbuilding and logistics program overseas during the American Civil War, Bulloch acquired a staggering 49 warships, blockade runners, and tenders; built 'invulnerable' ocean-going ironclads; sustained Co...
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    59,04 €