A Floating City, and, the Blockade RunnersScribner, Armstrong, 1874 - 286 pages The blockade runner: James Playfair must run a Federalist blockade of a Charleston, South Carolina harbour in an effort to trade supplies for cotton and to rescue a young girl's father, a Confederate prisoner. |
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