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Author: Emma Martin Maffitt Publisher: ISBN: 9781331974482 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 454
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Excerpt from The Life and Services of John Newland Maffitt The "Life" to which these lines are the introduction is the outcome of a promise made by the writer to "Florie," eldest daughter of Capt. John N. Maffitt. She expressed to me, a year before she passed away, her great desire that I prepare for publication the life of her father. I urged my unfitness, or inability, for the task, but she insisted that I alone could prepare the record which the public had a right to expect because of the part which her father had taken in our great struggle. Her request was sealed by her sad death, but it was not until the passing of her father, two years later, that I was inspired to fulfil my promise, in part, by preparing his obituary notice. The urgent necessity of training and educating my young children compelled the postponement of any further effort in this direction, but not for one moment have I been unmindful of its demands. It has been ever before me as my life's work, a work to be done when other duties permitted the opportunity. My inspiration in this work has been to do justice to my husbands memory, and, as much as possible, to eliminate myself. Wherever he had uttered a word which memory retained, or left a written document or sentence, it has been set down. So far as possible he has spoken for himself. My work has been to bridge over any hiatus by explanation or comment, when such was necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Emma Martin Maffitt Publisher: ISBN: 9781331974482 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 454
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Excerpt from The Life and Services of John Newland Maffitt The "Life" to which these lines are the introduction is the outcome of a promise made by the writer to "Florie," eldest daughter of Capt. John N. Maffitt. She expressed to me, a year before she passed away, her great desire that I prepare for publication the life of her father. I urged my unfitness, or inability, for the task, but she insisted that I alone could prepare the record which the public had a right to expect because of the part which her father had taken in our great struggle. Her request was sealed by her sad death, but it was not until the passing of her father, two years later, that I was inspired to fulfil my promise, in part, by preparing his obituary notice. The urgent necessity of training and educating my young children compelled the postponement of any further effort in this direction, but not for one moment have I been unmindful of its demands. It has been ever before me as my life's work, a work to be done when other duties permitted the opportunity. My inspiration in this work has been to do justice to my husbands memory, and, as much as possible, to eliminate myself. Wherever he had uttered a word which memory retained, or left a written document or sentence, it has been set down. So far as possible he has spoken for himself. My work has been to bridge over any hiatus by explanation or comment, when such was necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Emma (Martin) Mrs Maffitt Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781371334024 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 462
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Author: John S. Sledge Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN: 1611174864 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 613
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“A fine, fascinating book. John S. Sledge introduces us to four centuries worth of heroes and rogues on one incredible American river.” —Winston Groom, New York Times–bestselling author of Forrest Gump The Mobile River presents the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse. Inspired by the venerable Rivers of America series, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements with personal experiences and more than sixty color and black-and-white images for a rich and rewarding read. Previous historians have paid copious attention to the other rivers that make up the Mobile’s basin, but the namesake stream along with its majestic delta and beautiful bay have been strangely neglected. In an attempt to redress the imbalance, Sledge launches this book with a first-person river tour by “haul-ass boat.” Along the way he highlights the four diverse personalities of this short stream—upland hardwood forest, upper swamp, lower swamp, and harbor. In the historical saga that follows, readers learn about colonial forts, international treaties, bloody massacres, and thundering naval battles, as well as what the Mobile River’s inhabitants ate and how they dressed through time. A barge load of colorful characters is introduced, including Native American warriors, French diplomats, British cartographers, Spanish tavern keepers, Creole women, steamboat captains, African slaves, Civil War generals and admirals, Apache prisoners, hydraulic engineers, stevedores, banana importers, Rosie Riveters, and even a few river rats subsisting off the grid—all of them actors in a uniquely American pageant of conflict, struggle, and endless opportunity along a river that gave a city its name. “Sledge brilliantly explores the myriad ways human history has entwined with the Mobile River.” —Gregory A. Waselkov, author of A Conquering Spirit
Author: Walter E. Wilson Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786488883 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 370
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American naval hero and Confederate secret agent James Dunwoody Bulloch was widely considered the Confederacy's most dangerous man in Europe. As head of the South's covert shipbuilding and logistics program overseas during the American Civil War, Bulloch acquired a staggering 49 warships, blockade runners, and tenders; built "invulnerable" ocean-going ironclads; sustained Confederate logistics; financed covert operations; and acted as the mastermind behind the destruction of 130 Union ships. Ironically, this man who conspired to destroy the Union and kidnap its president later stood as the favorite uncle and mentor to Theodore Roosevelt. Bulloch's astonishing life unfolds in this first-ever biography.
Author: Robert Thorp Publisher: Vernon Press ISBN: 162273355X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 447
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‘Mersey Built’ chronicles the little-known commercial battle that raged between North and South during the American Civil War. The South relied on Europe for its military supplies, which the North tried to stop with a naval blockade of all Southern ports. The South retaliated by destroying Northern merchant ships on the high seas, using war ships, secretly procured from British shipyards and smuggled out of Britain by sympathetic British captains using British crews. The Charleston-based business empire headed by George Trenholm provided a conduit for Confederate finance with its Liverpool branch acting as bankers for the Confederacy’s procurement agents. Merseyside, with its extensive docks and numerous shipyards quickly became the epicenter of Confederate operations in Europe. Several British businessmen bought ships specifically to run supplies through the Union blockade, leaving relationships between the United States and Britain strained, close to breaking point. The book relates the history of Trenholm’s commercial empire, its pre-war expansion into Liverpool and the pivotal role it played in supporting the Confederate war effort. The involvement of other Liverpool-based entrepreneurs and their successes and failures in blockade-running is described. Background histories of the Merseyside ship builders who constructed warships and blockade runners for the Confederacy are included as well as several mini-biographies of the Liverpool-based captains who smuggled out warships and braved the Union blockade. Details of each ship built on Merseyside for involvement in the Civil War are listed. The role of the United States consular service and its extensive, Liverpool-based, spy ring is described, as are the efforts of the United States ambassador in London to influence British government policy on neutrality. The author, a direct descendant of a Liverpool ship builder, and a blockade-running captain, brings new insights and previously unpublished facts to light in this fascinating chapter of history.
Author: Bland Simpson Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 0807838101 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 204
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In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791- ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819-1886) never met, their stories bring to vivid life the saga of race and maritime culture in the antebellum and Civil War-era South. With his lyrical prose and inimitable voice, Bland Simpson offers readers a grand tale of the striving human spirit and the great divide that nearly sundered the nation. Grandy, born a slave, captained freight boats on the Dismal Swamp Canal and bought his freedom three times before he finally gained it. He became involved in Boston abolitionism and ultimately appeared before the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1843. As a child, Maffitt was sent from his North Carolina home to a northern boarding school, and at thirteen he was appointed midshipman in the U.S. Navy, where he had a distinguished career. After North Carolina seceded from the Union, he enlisted in the Confederate navy and became a legendary blockade runner and raider. Both Grandy and Maffitt made names for themselves as they navigated very different routes through the turbulent waters of antebellum America.
Author: Emma Martin Maffitt
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