John Taylor Wood : Sea Ghost of the Confederacy - Hardcover

Shingleton, Royce Gordon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820304662 ISBN 13: 9780820304663

Publisher: U. of Georgia Press, 1982

Synopsis

"The scion of America's military and political leadership, John Taylor Wood was the grandson of Zachary Taylor and the nephew of Jefferson Davis. While his father and mother remained loyal to the Union, Wood himself resigned his commission at the U.S. Naval Academy and received a lieutenant's commission in the Confederate navy. He was best known for his raids against enemy ships. In one three-week period, he captured over thirty Union merchant vessels off the north Atlantic coast. Between raids he served on President Davis's staff, and was captured with Davis in May 1865 in Georgia. He escaped, made his way to Cuba and eventually settled in Nova Scotia."

About this title

From the Author:

When contemplating a book-length manuscript, what I looked for in selecting a subject was to find someone who was deserving of a biography but heretofore little noticed.  This is true of all three of my major publications. 

The Wood book, my first, was actually an offshoot of the Peters book, my second; this was because as I was researching Peters I came across Wood.  Peters was part owner of a blocking running enterprise that owned a ship named the Atlanta--after Peters adopted city.  The blockade runner Atlanta was confiscated by the Confederate government, armed for destroying Union commerce, and renamed the Tallahassee, which was commanded by Wood.  After finding the Wood Papers in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, I had the makings not only of a good story but also an unsung action figure.  Since the Peters manuscript was quite an involved project because of the scattered sources and his multiple interests, I decided to concentrate on the Wood project first.  Thus my first two books were somewhat intertwined.

From the Inside Flap:

First printing (1979)--lengthy description of the contents (see a shorter version under Product Description above)

Second printing, National Historical Society Book Club edition, both hard cover and paperback (1982)--flap left blank

About this edition

• Publisher: U. of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0820304662
• ISBN 13: 9780820304663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256