CONFEDERATE MOBILE
A PICTORIAL HISTORY
BY CALDWELL DELANEY
FIRST EDITION
FINE CONDITION
Original, Sharp, Bright, Clean, Solidly Bound Book
Illustrated Throughout with Sketches, Photos, Maps and Documents
Illustrated End Pages
PUBLISHED BY THE HAUNTED BOOK SHOP, MOBILE, IN 1971
This handsome book provides a pictorial history of Confederate Mobile, Alabama, during the Civil War. Mobile was an important port city during the Civil War. The city fell to the Union Army late in the war following successful attacks on the defenses of Mobile Bay by the Union Navy.
The city had grown substantially in the period leading up to the Civil War when the Confederates heavily fortified it. The 1860 U.S. Census reported that Mobile had 29,258 residents, making it the 27th largest city in the country. When the Confederacy was formed, Mobile became the 4th largest city in the breakaway nation.
As war erupted, military fervor in Mobile was high, and hundreds of able-bodied men responded to recruitment drives and signed up for service in the Confederate army. In addition, several antebellum militia companies formally volunteered their services and enrolled.
Mobile's shipmakers responded by hastily constructing a series of vessels for naval usage, among them the CSS Gaines and CSS Morgan, both partially armored wooden ships with 2-inch armor plating over unseasoned wood. The Confederates countered the blockade by constructing "blockade runners;" fast, shallow-draft, low-slung ships that could either outrun or evade the blockaders, maintaining a trickle of trade in and out of Mobile. The CSS Hunley, the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel in combat, was built and tested in Mobile before being shipped to Charleson, South Carolina. Mobile was the site of several Civil War hospitals for wounded and ill soldiers.
On April 12, 1865, the city of Mobile surrendered to the Union army to avoid destruction following the Union victories at the Battle of Spanish Fort and the Battle of Fort Blakely.
This is book is in excellent condition. Bound in Confederate gray cover with bright, embossed, gold lettering and decorative highlights, the book is sharp, bright and clean. The interior is clean and the pages are in excellent, bright-white condition. There isn’t a mark in the book. The book has no writing, smudging, foxing, stamps, pasteboards or other markings. It is not an ex-library book. The book is loaded with illustrations, photos, maps and documents. The binding is solid throughout. Crease to spine, but solid. 360 pages. The book measures 11 ¼ inches by 8 ¼ inches by 1 inch. An excellent condition book.
CONFEDERATE MOBILE A PICTORIAL HISTORY BY CALDWELL DELANEY
FIRST EDITION
FINE CONDITION Original, Sharp, Bright, Clean, Solidly Bound Book
Illustrated Throughout with Sketches, Photos, Maps and Documents
Illustrated End Pages PUBLISHED BY THE HAUNTED BOOK SHOP, MOBILE, IN 1971
This handsome book provides a pictorial history of Confederate Mobile, Alabama, during the Civil War. Mobile was an important port city during the Civil War. The city fell to the Union Army late in the war following successful attacks on the defenses of Mobile Bay by the Union Navy.
The city had grown substantially in the period leading up to the Civil War when the Confederates heavily fortified it. The 1860 U.S. Census reported that Mobile had 29,258 residents, making it the 27th largest city in the country. When the Confederacy was formed, Mobile became the 4th largest city in the breakaway nation.
As war erupted, military fervor in Mobile was high, and hundreds of able-bodied men responded to recruitment drives and signed up for service in the Confederate army. In addition, several antebellum militia companies formally volunteered their services and enrolled.
Mobile's shipmakers responded by hastily constructing a series of vessels for naval usage, among them the CSS Gaines and CSS Morgan, both partially armored wooden ships with 2-inch armor plating over unseasoned wood. The Confederates countered the blockade by constructing "blockade runners;" fast, shallow-draft, low-slung ships that could either outrun or evade the blockaders, maintaining a trickle of trade in and out of Mobile. The CSS Hunley, the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel in combat, was built and tested in Mobile before being shipped to Charleson, South Carolina. Mobile was the site of several Civil War hospitals for wounded and ill soldiers.
On April 12, 1865, the city of Mobile surrendered to the Union army to avoid destruction following the Union victories at the Battle of Spanish Fort and the Battle of Fort Blakely.
This is book is in excellent condition. Bound in Confederate gray cover with bright, embossed, gold lettering and decorative highlights, the book is sharp, bright and clean. The interior is clean and the pages are in excellent, bright-white condition. There isn’t a mark in the book. The book has no writing, smudging, foxing, stamps, pasteboards or other markings. It is not an ex-library book. The book is loaded with illustrations, photos, maps and documents. The binding is solid throughout. Crease to spine, but solid. 360 pages. The book measures 11 ¼ inches by 8 ¼ inches by 1 inch. An excellent condition book.
