In the last months of the American Civil War, the upper Texas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was often considered an isolated backwater i

At the beginning of the American Civil War the Federal government imposed a blockade of the southern coast of the Confederate States of America, including the "

A detailed account of the innovative and daring tacticat of the Confederates as they boldly attacked the Union fleet to lift the Federal blockade of Texas.

One of the finest original works on the Civil War. -- Civil War News