Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Confederate, James Carlin (1833 1921), who was among the most successful captains running the U.S. Navy s blockade of Southern ports during the Civil War. Written by his descendent Colin Carlin, Captain James Carlin ventures behind the scenes of this perilous trade that transported vital supplies to the Confederate forces.
An Englishman trained in the British merchant marine, Carlin was recruited into the U.S. Coastal and Geodetic Survey Department in 1856, spending four years charting the U.S. Atlantic seaboard....