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Author Marquis, Greg.

Title In Armageddon's shadow : the Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces / Greg Marquis
Published Halifax [N.S.] : Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies, Saint Mary's University, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 389 pages) : illustrations
Contents The War Next Door -- The Commerce of War -- The Race Question -- Refugees, Crimps, Spies and Skedaddlers -- Bluenoses in Arms -- The Chesapeake Pirates -- The Chesapeake Pirates and the Courts -- The Summer of the Tallahassee -- Last Hurrah of the Blockade Runners -- Echoes of War
Summary "The United States had important and long-standing economic, social, and kinship ties with Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island that were profoundly shaken by the Civil War. In this account, Greg Marquis explores the shadow cast on the Maritimes and its people by America's bloodiest conflict." "In Armageddon's Shadow chronicles events as they unfolded and highlights the very real threat of conflict between Britain and the United States. Major crises such as the highjacking of the Chesapeake by Confederate partisans and the destructive cruise of the CSS Tallahassee - the only Confederate warship to reach a mainland British North American port - in addition to Halifax's growing importance as a communications link for the South and the Maritimes' involvement in blockade running are recounted in detail."--Jacket
Notes Co-published by McGill-Queen's University Press
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-377) and index
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Subject Canadians -- United States -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Canadians
Military participation -- Canadian
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140205
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Canadian
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies.
ISBN 9780773567481
0773567488