The Confederate Quartermaster in the Trans-Mississippi: The Blockade Runner's Texas Connection (Paperback) by James L Nichols

9780975273852. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 190. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 190 p. This book recounts the history and activities of the Denbigh, one of the Civil War's most successful blockade runners. A new introduction by J. Barto Arnold III (which includes a lengthy appendix) reviews recent archival and archaeological research and highlights the blockade runner's place in the Confederacy's complex and ultimately insoluble problem of obtaining manufactured items from abroad. Originally published by University of Texas Press in 1964.