Sea Wolf of the Confederacy: The Daring Civil War Raids of Naval Lt. Charles W. Read

by David W. Shaw

Documents the July 1863 ship-burning rampage led by Confederate Navy Lieutenant Charles W. Read in the weeks before the Battle of Gettysburg, tracing the efforts of Gideon Welles, U.S. Navy secretary, to end the attacks and capture Read. 20,000 first printing.

Genres: Civil War, American Civil War, Biography, History, Nonfiction, Military History, Civil War Navy

256 pages, Hardcover

First published March 2, 2004

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[Shelly♥]

This is more than a book on Charles W. Read and his piracy raid into New England waters in the summer of 1863, but a brief history of Confederate raiders through the course of the war.