The Confederate privateers
By: by William Morrison Robinson, Jr. ...
Publisher: Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Published: 1928
Place of publication: New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Confederate States of America. Navy; Privateering; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations
Description: The Confederate privateers is a book of action and adventure filled with stories of the Confederacy's privately armed ships and their sea battles with the Union. Called 'pirates' by the North, the South preferred to call them 'gentlemen adventurers', justly boasting of their exploits. Using Naval War records and other archives, the author provides readers with an authentic description of the privateers, their cruises and prizes, their successes and failures, and their ultimate fates. In fact, this is the first narrative history of privateer cruises aboard the Jefferson Davis, the Dixie, the Sally, and the pygmy submarine Pioneer.
Notes: "Critical bibliography and acknowledgements": p. xi-xvi.
Illustrated t.-p.
"Appendix: Procedure in the Confederate prize courts": p. 345-353.