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Civil War Scoundrels and the Texas Cotton Trade.

"During the Civil War, scoundrels from both the Union and Confederate sides were able to execute illicit, but ingenious, schemes to acquire Texas cotton. Texas was the only Confederate state that bordered a neutral country, it was never forcibly conquered, and its coast was impossible to effect...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilson, Walter E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : McFarland and Company, Inc. : McFarland, 2020.
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505 0 |a The Texas Cotton Trade -- Civil War Blockade Running: Setting Up the Scheme -- The Winning the White House: Telling a Texas Tall Tale -- The Texas Adventure Fleet: A Sinking Start -- Hot, Dirty, and Full of Fleas: At the Rio Grande -- Double Dealing Cotton in Texas -- Escape from Texas -- Deceived and Swindled from New York to Matamoros -- Aiding the Enemy without Conviction -- Post-War Scoundrels Reconstructed and Resurrected -- Conclusion. 
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