NEVER CAUGHT; Personal Adventures Connected with Twelve Successful Trips In Blockade-Running During The American Civil War, 1863-1864, by Captain Roberts (pseudonym) (Confederate Naval History)

Captain Roberts (Hobart-Hamden, Charles Augustus Roberts)

Verlag: John Camden Hotten, London., 1867

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 12mo; (iv), 123 pgs, and with publisher's catalog of titles (xxv) + 6 pgs . Stamped blue cloth over beveled boards, with gilt titled spine; binder's label in rear, bookseller label in front and light pencilled note on front free endpaper. 31 pages of publisher's advertising of its catalog. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light rubbing to corners and spine ends, cover a bit soiled. Interior has inked name on title page; else pages appropriately age toned but otherwise clean. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION:In 1835 the author entered the Royal Navy and served as a midshipman on the coast of Brazil in the suppression of the slave trade. In 1842 he passed his examinations at Dartmouth Naval College. In 1855 he took part, as captain of HMS Driver in the Baltic Expedition, and was actively engaged at Bomarsund and Åbo. As a reward he was promoted to the rank of commander. At the time of his retirement the Civil War in America was beginning, and Hobart, who was a staunch Southerner, joined some brother officers in running the blockade off the coast of North Carolina. His daring and skillful seamanship by which he carried his cargoes into Wilmington and Charleston, the exciting chases and narrow escapes of this adventurous period, when Hobart was thoroughly in his proper element, is all included in this narrative which he wrote under the pseudonym of Captain Roberts . He had the good fortune to run the blockade eighteen times, conveying war material to Charleston and returning with a cargo of cotton. Very scarce in this first edition. REFERENCES: Howes 549. Not in NEVINS ; Only referencing author's SKETCHES FROM MY LIFE: vol. I pg 105: The author was a notorious blockade-runner; yet only two small sections of this autobiography touch on life in the wartime south. In Tall Cotton-91. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1223007

Bibliografische Details

Titel: NEVER CAUGHT; Personal Adventures Connected ...
Verlag: John Camden Hotten, London.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1867
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: 1st Edition