PDF Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture by Anthony Esolen in History

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In the last months of the American Civil War; the upper Texas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was often considered an isolated backwater in the conflict; the Union's pervasive and systematic seizure of Southern ports left Galveston as one of the only strongholds of foreign imports in the anemic supply chain to embattled Confederate forces. Long; fast steamships ran in and out of the city's port almost every week; bound to and from Cuba. Join author Andrew W. Hall as he explores the story of Texas's Civil War blockade runners--a story of daring; of desperation and; in many cases; of patriotism turning coat to profiteering.