Confederate Blockade Runners In Action

"Confederate Blockade Runners In Action" is researched from Civil War era and early 20th Century sources. Readers will relive the adventures of the Jane, the Venus, the Broncho and other runners used by the Southern Confederacy to elude northern patrols. During the war the Confederate government was heavily reliant on the sale of cotton to England. Blockade runners transported cotton between England, Nassau, and southern ports like Wilmington, North Carolina and Charleston, South Carolina.