Campaign for the Confederate Coast
Blockading, Blockade Running and Related Endeavors During the American Civil War
Authored by Gil Hahn
In this highly informative book, readers will learn the story of blockade running from a nuanced, all-points-of-view perspective. Without recounting hundreds of encounters between pro-Confederate blockade runners and Federal blockading forces, it traces the ebb and flow of events as the U.S. Navy, blockade runners, and foreign governments (primarily the British) all pressed for advantage.
About the Author
Gil Hahn was educated at Dartmouth College, Vanderbilt Law School and Columbia Business School. He has been employed as a lawyer in various capacities, and in various jurisdictions, since 1978. He has an abiding interest in American History, Military History and the History of Technology. He lives near Wilmington, Delaware with his wife and his wife’s three cats. He works part-time at the Hagley Museum where he operates, and explains the operations of, a steam engine.
This important new study of the Civil War demonstrates what while blockade running was indeed the “lifeline of the Confederacy,” the Union blockade and the capture of Confederate ports choked that lifeline to a small fragment of the South’s needed seaborne commerce and played a key role in eventual Northern victory. Of special value is Gil Hahn’s analysis of the naval war in the context of international law.
— James M. McPherson, author of War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865
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