Civil War Blockade Running on the Texas Coast (eBook)

In the last months of the American Civil War, the upperTexas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was oftenconsidered an isolated backwater in the conflict, the Union's pervasive andsystematic seizure of Southern ports left Galveston as one of the onlystrongholds of foreign imports in the anemic supply chain to embattledConfederate forces. Long, fast steamships ran in and out of the city's portalmost every week, bound to and from Cuba. Join author Andrew W. Hall as heexplores the story of Texas's Civil War blockade runners-a story of daring, ofdesperation and, in many cases, of patriotism turning coat to profiteering.

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In the last months of the American Civil War, the upper Texas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was often considered an isolated backwater in the conflict, the Union's pervasive and systematic seizure of Southern ports left Galveston as one of the only strongholds of foreign imports in the anemic supply chain to embattled Confederate forces. Long, fast steamships ran in and out of the city's port almost every week, bound to and from Cuba. Join author Andrew W. Hall as he explores the story of Texas's Civil War blockade runners--a story of daring, of desperation and, in many cases, of patriotism turning coat to profiteering.