Captain James Carlin , livre ebook

Captain James Carlin
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Captain James Carlin
Anglo-American Blockade-Runner
Colin Carlin
2017 University of South Carolina
Published by the University of South Carolina Press
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
www.sc.edu/uscpress
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Names: Carlin, Colin, author.
Title: Captain James Carlin :
Anglo-American blockade-runner / Colin Carlin.
Description: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South
Carolina Press, 2016. | Series: Studies in maritime history
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016047772 | ISBN 9781611177138 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Carlin, James 1833-1921. | United States-History-
Civil War, 1861-1865-Blockades. | Ship captains-South Carolina-
Charleston-Biography. | Charleston (S.C.)-History-
Civil War, 1861-1865. | Charleston (S.C.)-Biography.
Classification: LCC E600 .C28 2016 | DDC 973.7092 [B]-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016047772
ISBN 978-1-61117-714-5 (ebook)
Front cover photographs: James Carlin, courtesy of Mrs. Sally Purinton.
Charleston and its environs; Harper s Weekly , 28 March 1863.
PREVIOUS WORKS BY THE AUTHOR
William Kirkpatrick of M laga: Consul, N gociant and Entrepreneur, and Grandfather of the Empress Eug nie . Glasgow: Grimsay Press, Scotland, 2011.
In Spanish translation: William Kirkpatrick de M laga, C nsul en M laga. Afanoso Industrial, y Abuela de la Emperatriz Eugenia, consorte de Napole n III, Emperador de Francia . Glasgow: Grimsay Press, Scotland, 2012.
For Olivia, James, Rose Agnes, Polly Ella, and Thomas Peter.
For if ever a cool head, strong nerve, and determination of character were required, it was while running or endeavoring to run through the American blockade of the Southern States. It must be borne in mind that the excitement of fighting, which some men (inexplicable I confess to me) really love, did not exist. One was always either running away, or being deliberately pitched into the broadsides of the American cruisers, the slightest resistance to which would have constituted piracy; capture without resistance, merely entailed confiscation of cargo and vessel.
Captain A. Roberts, Never Caught , 6
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
Illustrations and Maps

Illustrations
Captain James Carlin, Carte de visite
James Carlin in later life
St. Mary s Church, Old Hunstanton, North Norfolk
Old naive gouache of the Norfolk Saltings off the North Sea coast
London Road, Brancaster, North Norfolk in the 1880s
Dr. Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) with surveying instrument
Dr. Alexander Bache, seated
Ella Rosa Imogene de Montijo Carlin.
View of Charleston, South Carolina just as the Civil War was about to begin
C sar Imperator or the American Gladiators
Charles Robert Carlin in about 1861
View of Nassau in the British West Indies, the depot for the blockade-running trade
Look Out for Squalls
Passenger certificate for the SS Memphis
The USS Memphis
House of Detention at Mulberry Street-The Tombs
Fort Lafayette
Prison in casement no. 2, Fort Lafayette
Charles Turner
Earl Russell, British secretary of state for foreign affairs between 1859-1865
William Henry Seward, U.S. secretary of state
Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, British minister, Washington
Gideon Wells, secretary of the United States Navy, 1861 to 1869.
The Carlin family house in Church Street, Charleston
Making havelocks for the volunteers
Ella and Annie flying the Confederate flag
Royal Navy Spar Torpedo on 45-foot steam pinnace of 1880
Charleston and its environs, 1863
Attack by the Federal Ironsides on the Harbor Defenses of Charleston
USS Ironsides in Fighting Trim
Frank N. Bonneau, first mate and later captain of the Ella and Annie .
USS Niphon , 1863.
Peter Denny in 1868 by Sir Daniel Macnee
Helenslee, Peter Denny s house in Dumbarton in the 1870s.
Sherman s March
The Waterloo Hotel, Rankling Street, to the left of the Lyceum Library
SS Ella in St. George Harbor, Bermuda.
Columbia s Sewing Machine, Reflections from Punch .
William Henry Gleason, lieutenant governor of Florida July-December 1868
The Carlin house Jupiter Florida circa 1912
The Town and Port of Nassau, New Providence, Bahama
Carlos Manuel de C spedes y L pez del Castillo
Commander John Newland Maffitt, CSN
Balblair, Nairn, Scotland <