Pirates, privateers & rebel raiders of the Carolina coast
By: Lindley S. Butler.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Pirates -- North Carolina -- Atlantic Coast -- History -- Anecdotes.; Pirates -- North Carolina -- Atlantic Coast -- Biography -- Anecdotes.; Privateering -- North Carolina -- Atlantic Coast -- History -- Anecdotes.; Sailors -- North Carolina -- Atlantic Coast -- History -- Anecdotes.; Sailors -- North Carolina -- Atlantic Coast -- Biography -- Anecdotes.; North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations -- Anecdotes.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations -- Anecdotes.; Atlantic Coast (N.C.) -- History, Naval -- Anecdotes.
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography; Naval operations
Other titles: Pirates, privateers, and rebel raiders of the Carolina coast
Description: "Lindley Butler offers biographical portraits of some of the most famous pirates, privateers, and naval raiders to ply the Carolina waters. Covering 150 years, from the golden age of piracy in the 1700s to the extraordinary transformation of naval warfare ushered in by the Civil War, Butler sketches the lives of eight characters."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-264) and index.