Confederate Privateers (Classics in Maritime History)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: February 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781570030055
Subjects: American history; Maritime history; United States - Revolutionary War; Military History - U.S. Civil War; Naval History - Modern; History; History - Military / War; History: American; USA; United States - Civil War; Military - General; History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); History : Military - General; History : United States - Civil War
First sentence: ON April 17, 1861, North America was electrified as the telegraph flashed the news from Montgomery that President Davis had issued a proclamation inviting applications for letters of marque and reprisal.