Robinson, William Morrison The Confederate privateers, before 1928.

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Robinson, William Morrison The Confederate privateers, before 1928.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311155526

The collection consists of one volume, typescript, of the book published by the Yale University Press, New Haven in 1928.

1 v. (0.25 linear ft.)

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Confederate States of America. Navy

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Built in Philadelphia as the Habana, the CSS Sumter was originally used as a blockade runner in New Orleans. In 1861, she was purchased for use by the Confederate Government. Under the command of Raphael Semmes, she captured a number of Union flag merchant ships off the coasts of Cuba and South America, as well as other locations in the western hemisphere. When her boilers became unfit for use and repairs and supplies could not be obtained, she was sold at public auction at Gibraltar on December...

Robinson, William M. (William Morrison), 1891-1965

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Colonel, United States Army. Colonel William Morrison Robinson, Jr. was born in Augusta, Georgia, 1891. He moved to Quincy, Florida in 1950. His active military service in the United States Army Corps of Engineers included tours of duty in both world wars, in France from 1917-1919, and in the Pacific from 1943-1945. Colonel Robinson was a graduate of the Georgia School of Technology with degrees in science and civil engineering. He received an honorary degree of doctor o...