Description
Book SynopsisThis book recounts the history of the Denbigh, one of the Civil War's most successful blockade runners. A new introduction by J. Barto Arnold III reviews recent archival and archaeological research and highlights the blockade runner's place in the Confederacy's complex and ultimately insoluble problem of obtaining manufactured items from abroad.
Trade Review
'[A]n important contribution to the historian’s knowledge of a significant aspect of the military operations of the Civil War. (George L. Anderson, Civil War History)'
'[O]ffers much light in a hitherto little regarded area of Confederate studies. Professor Nichols deserves great credit for this fine contribution to Civil War knowledge.' (Allan C. Ashcraft, Southern Historical Quarterly)
'This [volume] . . . should help future scholars to a better understanding of the period 1861–65 than has ever been possible before'. (Robert A. Brent, Journal of Mississippi History)
'[A] pioneering work in the field of Trans-Mississippi logistics.' (William T. Windham, Journal of Southern History)
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Percheron Press Edition, J. Barto Arnold III
1. The Quartermaster: His Place and Purpose
2. Clothing and Equipage
3. The Tax-in-Kind in the Trans-Mississippi
4. The Cotton Bureau
5. Transportation: Supply and Maintenance
6. Payrolls, Claims, and Money Troubles
Bibliography
Index
