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Shipwrecked : a true Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade

Summary: "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."--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781538175019
  • ISBN: 1538175010
  • Physical Description: print
    xvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-306) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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
Subject:
Oaksmith, Appleton 1827 or 1828-1887
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince 1806-1893 Family
Slave traders New York (State) New York Biography
Slave trade United States History 19th century
Ship captains United States Biography
Escapes Massachusetts Boston
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Blockades
Nicaragua History Filibuster War, 1855-1860
Carteret County (N.C.) Biography
New York (N.Y.) Biography
Genre:
Biographies.

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