Blockade Runners of the Confederacy.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: Wisconsin Bookwatch | Date: January 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Blockade Runners Of The Confederacy

Hamilton Cochran

The University of Alabama Press

Box 870380, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0380

www.uapress.ua.edu

0817351698 $22.95 1-800-621-2736

Now with a new introduction by Robert M. Browning Jr., Blockade Runners Of The Confederacy is a highly readable, historical chronicle of the men and ships who dared to run Union naval blockades during the Civil War, bringing munition...

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