Shipwrecked : a true Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade /
White, Jonathan W., 1979-
Shipwrecked : a true Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade / True Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade Jonathan W. White. - xvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
9781538175019 1538175010
2023001874
Oaksmith, Appleton, 1827 or 1828-1887.
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893 --Family.
Ship captains--United States--Biography.
Slave traders--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
Slave trade--History--United States--19th century.
Escapes--Massachusetts--Boston.
United States--History--Blockades.--Civil War, 1861-1865
Nicaragua--History--Filibuster War, 1855-1860.
New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
Carteret County (N.C.)--Biography.
Biographies.
Shipwrecked : a true Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade / True Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade Jonathan W. White. - xvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
9781538175019 1538175010
2023001874
Oaksmith, Appleton, 1827 or 1828-1887.
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893 --Family.
Ship captains--United States--Biography.
Slave traders--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
Slave trade--History--United States--19th century.
Escapes--Massachusetts--Boston.
United States--History--Blockades.--Civil War, 1861-1865
Nicaragua--History--Filibuster War, 1855-1860.
New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
Carteret County (N.C.)--Biography.
Biographies.