| Portion of title |
True Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade |
| Contents |
Youth -- Family -- California -- Africa -- Diplomacy -- Secession -- War -- The Augusta -- Fort Lafayette -- Fort Warren -- Charles Street Prison -- Execution -- Trial -- Isolation -- Escape -- Exile -- Lincoln -- Kidnapping -- Divorce -- Storms -- Death -- Appendix 1: Oaksmith Family Tree -- Appendix 2: The Wells and Manuel Ortiz |
| Abstract |
"The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: White, Jonathan W., 1979- Shipwrecked Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023 9781538175026 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2023001874 |
| ISBN | 9781538175019 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1538175010 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
