Sea hawk of the Confederacy
Subtitle: Lt. Charles W. Read and the Confederate Navy
By: by R. Thomas Campbell.
Publisher: Burd Street Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Shippensburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Read, Charles William, 1840-1890; Confederate States of America. Navy -- Officers -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations, Confederate
Description: "In 1861, as the flames of war were being fanned throughout the nation, a young midshipman resigned from the United States Navy and made his way south to Montgomery, Alabama. There, he offered his services to the new Confederate States of America. Charles W. Read, in the next four years, compiled a record of ingenuity and daring unsurpassed in the annals of American naval history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-229) and index.