Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Hydra of Secession
2. All Was Saved but Our Honor
3. Beauty and Booty
4. Come and Take the City
5. These People Can Do Nothing without Gunboats
6. The Importance of a Vigorous Blockade
7. Bearding the Lion in His Den
8. We Have No Vessel of Sufficient Speed
9. Every Little Bayou
10. Misfortunes Seldom Come Singly
11. Give Me Wooden Ships and Iron Hearts
12. The Black Devil and the Pup
13. Where the Devil Is the Wind to Come From
14. Heigh-Ho! The Sabine Pass?
15. The Blockade Must Be Kept Up
16. Notwithstanding All Our Watchfulness
17. Anything Is Preferable Than Lying on Our Oars
18. Go Ahead Sir
19. You Had Better Surrender
20. Blockade Running . . . Is at an End
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index