SHIPWRECKED: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade

The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid 19th-century, from the California Gold Rush and filibustering schemes in Nicaragua to Cuban liberation, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.