Australian Confederates: How 42 Australians Joined the Rebel Cause and Fired the Last Shot in the American Civil War

by Terry Smyth

In the summer of 1865, when a Confederate warship sailed into the port of Melbourne, 42 Australian men secretly enlisted to fight for the South in the American Civil War--this is their story When the notorious raider Shenandoah --scourge of the Yankee merchant fleet--dropped anchor, the fledgling colony of Victoria was taken by surprise, and the Confederates had no way of knowing whether they would be hailed as heroes or hanged as pirates. To the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857986554
• ISBN13: 9780857986559
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"