The last of the Confederate privateers
By: David and Joan Hay
Contributors: Hay, Joan Frances Doulton, author
Publisher: Crescent Books
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780517218556
Subjects: History; Ship captains; Biography; Naval operations; Privateering; Capitaines de navire; Biographies; Histoire; Opérations navales; Naval Military operations; Confederate States of America. Navy; Confederate States of America
Description: "Captain John Clibbon Brain of the Confederate States' Navy launched himself into the American Civil War with a verve and gusto which belied his origins in a Gloucestershire village in peaceful, rural England. At the beginning of the Civil War, he emigrated to the United States and enthusiastically took up a military career. He was soon transferred to the Confederate Navy where his recklessness and bravado ensured his success as a privateer ... Throughout all [the] excitement, however, Brain kept his mother's family in England informed of his adventures and it is from this unique and fascinating correspondence that the authors have pieced together this the story of their daring and unorthodox relative"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Bannut Tree House : early days in England; title: 'The Federal flag at the peak and the Confederate flag at the fore' : the South finds itself at war; title: 'Come on, you damned volunteers' : the first modern war evolves; title: 'A sawn-off roof of a gabled house floating on the water' : baptism of fire, the first naval engagements; title: A knight of the Golden Circle : Secret Service, and so to prison; title: 'Prowling around for coal' : Brain captures the Chesapeake; title: The Pony Express : a surprise attack on the Great Lakes; title: 'Sail Ho, right astern, sir, and in chase' : The commander studies the art of blockade running; title: 'The passengers were not a little surprised' : the fast mail steamer Roanoke is the next target; title: Loose in the Atlantic : Brain captures the St. Mary's; title: 'No evidence to criminate him' : the circus was a roaring success, as a prelude to prison.