Now available from Eliot Werner Publications  . . .

COLIN J. McRAE: CONFEDERATE FINANCIAL AGENT
Blockade Running in the Trans-Mississippi as Affected by the  
Confederate Government's Direct European Procurement of Goods

CHARLES S. DAVIS

With a New Introduction and Extensive Additions by

J. BARTO ARNOLD III
Institute of Nautical Archaeology and Texas A & M University
College Station, Texas

 From the Introduction to the 2008 INA Edition . . .

"As the Civil War commenced, the newly formed Confederacy found  
itself short of cash and manufactured goods, while soon its sellable  
agricultural products were blockaded for the most part. So the South  
turned largely to Great Britain and a few other European powers as  
sources of weapons, clothing, tools, and medicines that could be paid  
for with bales of Rebel cotton. . . .

The present tome considers mainly what had to be done in Europe to  
finance and acquire the wanted goods. Part I reprints an excellent  
study of the business of blockade running: Colin J. McRae:  
Confederate Financial Agent by Charles S. Davis, 1961. Part II  
discusses the goods involved in the blockade-running trade by  
publishing fascinating ships invoices as well as customs records.  
These raw descriptions are supplemented by interesting correspondence  
between factors, diplomats, and government officials. . . .

It is my recommendation that this and the other books of the Denbigh  
Project Series produced by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology  
(INA) be examined by the reader, for they document the career and  
demise of a single blockade runner. Blockade running was clearly  
vital to the South’s war effort, but for financiers and crew was a  
dangerous way to earn one’s daily bread."

Denbigh Shipwreck Project Publication 4

Published by Institute of Nautical Archaeology (College Station, Texas)

ISBN 978-0-9795874-1-2/paperback/224 pp./illus./August 2008/$32.50

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