Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission (Stephen Puleo WH) Section - Civil War Guides Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy

Southern Strategies:  Why the Confederacy Failed

John Motley Morehead and Jonathan Worth led the campaign against secession in early 1861

) of coffee rather than the more common 12 ounce bags that you might find elsewhere

who had honed their fighting prowess earlier in the war against fearsome Confederate tacticians John Mosby and John Imboden

the three major anniversary celebrations

Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission (Stephen Puleo WH) Section - Civil War Guides Southern Strategies: Why the ConfederacyMore than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the other direction, to help the millions unable to escape, was the USS Jamestown, a converted warship, which left Boston in March 1847 loaded with precious food for Ireland. In an unprecedented move by Congress, the warship had been placed in civilian hands,