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A Surprising Work Of Narrative History And Detection That Illuminates One Of The Most Daring--and Long-forgotten--heroes Of The Civil War. Independence Day, 1861: The Schooner S.j. Waring Sets Sail From New York On A Routine Voyage To South America. Seventeen Days Later, It Limps Back Into New York's Frenzied Harbor With The Ship's Black Steward, William Tillman, At The Helm. While The Story Of That Ill-fated Voyage Is One Of The Most Harrowing Tales Of Captivity And Survival On The High Seas, It Has, Almost Unbelievably, Been Lost To History. Now Reclaiming Tillman As The Real American Hero He Was, Historian Brian Mcginty Dramatically Returns Readers To That Riotous, Explosive Summer Of 1861, When The Country Was Tearing Apart At The Seams And The Union Army Was In Near Shambles Following A Humiliating Defeat At The First Battle Of Bull Run.^ Desperate For Good News, The North Was Soon Riveted By Reports Of An Incident That Occurred A Few Hundred Miles Off The Coast Of New York, Where The Waring Had Been Overtaken By A Marauding Crew Of Confederate Privateers. While The White Sailors Became Chummy With Their Southern Captors, Free Black Man William Tillman Was Perfectly Aware Of T

Author

McGinty, Brian, author

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781631491306

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

3.38 / 5 (59 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14