The Desperate Confederacy: The Little Known Guerrilla War on the Water
Hijacking passenger steamers, overpowering schooner crews, et al. had begun before First Bull Run/Manassas on the Potomac River. By 1863 reeling from defeats at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Tullahoma, the Confederates stepped up their guerrilla war on the water in the…