Shipwrecked : a true Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW HISTORY
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 317 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781538175019, 1538175010 :, 1538175010, 9781538175019
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Youth -- Family -- California -- Africa -- Diplomacy -- Secession -- War -- The Augusta -- Fort Lafayette -- Fort Warren -- Charles Street Prison -- Execution -- Trial -- Isolation -- Escape -- Exile -- Lincoln -- Kidnapping -- Divorce -- Storms -- Death -- Appendix 1: Oaksmith Family Tree -- Appendix 2: The Wells and Manuel Ortiz
"The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--