Captain James Carlin

Anglo-American Blockade-Runner

Autor: Carlin, Colin
Editor: University of South Carolina Press
Col·lecció: Studies in Maritime History
ISBN: 9781611177138
eISBN Pdf: 9781611177145
eISBN Epub: 9781611177145
Lloc de publicació: South Carolina , United States
Any de publicació digital: 2016
Mes: Desembre
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

A portrait of one of the most successful blockade runners who brought vital supplies to Confederate forces

Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Confederate, James Carlin (1833-1921), who was among the most successful captains running the U.S. Navy's blockade of Southern ports during the Civil War. Written by his descendent Colin Carlin, Captain James Carlin ventures behind the scenes of this perilous trade that transported vital supplies to the Confederate forces.

An Englishman trained in the British merchant marine, Carlin was recruited into the U.S. Coastal and Geodetic Survey Department in 1856, spending four years charting the U.S. Atlantic seaboard. Married and settled in Charleston, South Carolina, he resigned from the survey in 1860 to resume his maritime career. His blockade-running started with early runs into Charleston under sail. These came to a lively conclusion under gunfire off the Stono River mouth. More blockade-running followed until his capture on the SS Memphis. Documents in London reveal the politics of securing Carlin's release from Fort Lafayette.

On his return to Charleston, General P. G. T. Beauregard gave him command of the spar torpedo launch Torch for an attack on the USS New Ironsides. After more successful trips though the blockade, he was appointed superintending captain of the South Carolina Importing and Exporting Company and moved to Scotland to commission six new steam runners.

After the war Carlin returned to the southern states to secure his assets before embarking on a gun-running expedition to the northern coast of Cuba for the Cuban Liberation Junta fighting to free the island from Spanish control and plantation slavery.

In researching his forebear, the author gathered a wealth of private and public records from England, Scotland, Ireland, Greenland, the Bahamas, and the United States. The use of fresh sources from British Foreign Office and U.S. Prize Court documents and surviving business papers make this volume distinctive.

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations and Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Early Days, 1833–1848
Chapter 2 Navigation School, the Apprentice, 1850–1856
Chapter 3: United States Coast Survey, 1856–1860
Chapter 4 A Romantic Interlude, 1857
Chapter 5 Transition, 1860
Chapter 6 The Blockade Is Declared, 1860–1861
Chapter 7 The Wildcatter, Blockade Running Under Sail, 1861–1862
Chapter 8 The First Gunfire: The Alert, October 1861
Chapter 9 The Confederacy Confronts the Blockade: The Business of Blockade-Running, 1861–1862
Chapter 10 Running through the Blockade for Trenholm and Company, 1861–1862
Chapter 11 The Memphis Affair, July 31–August 1, 1862
Chapter 12 The Trial of the Memphis, August–September, 1862
Chapter 13 Recriminations and Fallout, 1862
Chapter 14 Fort Lafayette: Anglo-American Diplomatic Exchanges and James Carlin’s Struggle for Release, August–December 1862
Chapter 15 Still a Captive, Late 1862
Chapter 16 Diplomatic Power Play, Christmas 1862–January 1863
Chapter 17 Carlin Stakes His Claim, January–July 1863
Chapter 18 Resumption of Trade: “The Intrepid Carlin,” January–May 1863
Chapter 19 The “Commodore” of the I&E Company: “Knights of the Sea,” June–July 1863
Chapter 20 Charleston Under Siege, 1863
Chapter 21 The CSS Torch Incident: Drama and Treachery, August 1863
Chapter 22 Trouble in Bermuda: Or How Not to Run the Blockade, September–November 1863
Chapter 23 Preparing for Change, December 1863
Chapter 24 Appointment in Scotland, December 1863–1864
Chapter 25 Liverpool and the Last Days of the Confederacy, March 1864–June 1865
Chapter 26 The Last of the Cotton, April–May 1865
Chapter 27 Financial Matters, 1864–1866
Chapter 28 Life in England, June 1865–1871
Chapter 29 Charleston and Florida Ventures, 1865–1869
Chapter 30 The Steamer Salvador and the Cuban Revolution, 1869
Chapter 31 The Cuban Run, May 1869
Chapter 32 The Cuban Shore, May–June, 1869
Chapter 33 The Queen v. Salvador and British Foreign Enlistment Act 59, Geo. III 1819 c.69., May 1869
Chapter 34 Caribbean Repercussions: The Governor Tenders His Resignation, 1869–1878
Chapter 35 What Happened Next, 1870–1891
Appendix 1 Additional Documents
Appendix 2 Reflections on Confederate Finance
Appendix 3 Alexander D. Bache’s Correspondence with James Carlin
Appendix 4 Bahamian Exports, 1861–1865
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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