- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Diary
- Creator:
- Dickson, James, 1836-1874
- Date of Original:
- 1861/1862
- Subject:
- Confederate States of America. Army--Supplies and stores
Standard of Windsor (Brig)
Blockade
Merchant mariners
Shipping--Confederate States of America - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- diaries
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/x-djvu - Description:
- The collection consists of the diary of a blockade runner during the Civil War from December 1861 through February 1862. The diary describes the voyage from New York to Halifax, Nova Scotia and the return voyage on the brigantine the Standard of Windsor, loaded with dry goods, food, and medicine for the Confederate government. The author describes in detail the weather, sea conditions, eating habits, and life aboard ship; fears of capture by Union forces; maneuvers used to run the blockade; and off loading the cargo. Also contained in the collection are research notes, speeches, and correspondence of William Porter Kellam pertaining to his research of the diary. Kellam attributes the diary to James Dickson in Savannah, Georgia.
Cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access Project: A Special Collections Gateway Program of the University Center in Georgia.
Typescript of diary available in repository.
During the American Civil War the Union enacted a military tactic known as the Anaconda Plan, which cut off the Confederacy's considerable trade overseas. Located along twelve major ports and covering over 3500 miles of coastline, this blockade crippled the Confederate economy and thus helped the Union to victory. Blockade running was a major enterprise for Confederates until the end of the war, by which time over 1000 blockade runners and hundred of ships had been captured by the Union Navy.
America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia received support from a Digitizing Historical Records grant awarded to the Atlanta History Center, Georgia Historical Society, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Digital Library of Georgia by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_turningpoint_harg0791-001-006
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/harg/turningpoint/do:harg0791-001-006
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Blockade runner's diary, MS 791. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries., as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Original Collection:
- Box 1, Folder 6, Blockade runner's diary, MS 791. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
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