Schooner Sail to Starboard
The US Navy vs. Blockade Runners in the Western Gulf of Mexico
by W. T. Block, introduction by J. Barto Arnold III
Paperback (Published)
(December 2007)
ISBN: 9780979587405
Price: $32.50
On back order
From the Introduction to the Dogwood Press Edition . . . It was the author’s desire to write a story devoted solely to blockade-running in the Western Gulf of Mexico. This republished edition includes six first-hand accounts as appendixes, 56 new figures, and a new introduction putting the work in the context of the Denbigh Shipwreck Project.
“The ships carried cotton to Havana and manufactured goods to the Confederacy. The problem was the Union heavily blockaded the area, and even the fast steamship Denhigh, now part of an underwater archeological site, was in peril of losses in trade the south could ill afford. Independent scholar Block turns from the Atlantic seaboard, where most accounts of the Union Navy’s blockade are set, to the area west of the Mississippi River on the Gulf of Mexico. The result is a close description the blockade and blockade-running from Galveston to western Louisiana, the coast of Texas, and ports in Alabama and Florida. He pays close attention to the accounts of officers and sailors on both sides and provides excellent maps, illustrations and photographs. This was originally published in 1997 under another title and has been updated with new appendices, figures and introduction.”
Introduction to the INA Edition J. Barto Arnold III Introduction Chapter 1. A Prelude to Blockade-Running, Western Gulf of Mexico Chapter 2. Blockade-Running at Galveston, 1861-1863 Chapter 3. Blockade-Running at Galveston, 1863-1865 Chapter 4. Blockade-Running in Western Louisiana, 1861-1865 Chapter 5. Blockade-Running at Sabine Pass, Texas, 1861-1865 Chapter 6. Blockade-Running, Brazos and S. Bernard R, 1861-1865 Chapter 7. Blockade-Running on the SW Coast of Texas, 1861-1863 Chapter 8. Blockade-Running on the South Texas Coast, 1863-1865 Chapter 9. A Summary of Blockade-Running, Trans-Mississippi Bibliography Appendixes Index
J. Barto Arnold III Institute of Nautical Archaeology and Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas
- By (author) W. T. Block
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