Mary Louise Clifford, J. Candace Clifford

When the Southern Lights Went Dark (eBook, ePUB)

The Lighthouse Establishment during the Civil War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Confederacy extinguished the lights in all the lighthouses it controlled long before any shots were fired at Fort Sumter. When the Southern Lights Went Dark: The Lighthouse Establishment During the Civil War tells the story of the men who assumed the daunting task of finding the lenses and lamps, repairing deliberate destruction to the towers and lightships, and relighting them as soon as the Navy could afford them protection. From Cape Hatteras to Ocracoke Light, Jupiter Inlet to Tybee Island, St. Simons to Cockspur Island and others, these are the stories from a unique era in United States lighthouse history.

Unlike in peace time, when military officers filled the posts of engineer and inspector in each lighthouse district, civilians had to be found who were not only talented enough to build and maintain lighthouses, but also could supervise a party of workmen and make decisions on their own. Those men in the field had to find keepers, see that they were paid, and ensure they had food, water, and essential supplies. The Lighthouse Board was far away in Washington and could do little more than give advice, order needed equipment, record the dispatches from the field, and pay the bills it received. From Cape Hatteras to Ocracoke Light, Jupiter Inlet to Tybee Island, St. Simons to Cockspur Island and others, these are the stories from a unique era in United States lighthouse history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781493047079
• Artikelnr.: 67973810

Autorenporträt

Mary Louise Clifford is the author of 26 books, both fiction and non-fiction including Women Who Kept the Lights, Nineteenth-Century Lights, Maine Lighthouses, Mind the Light Katie, and Lighthouses Short and Tall. Visit her at marylouiseclifford.com. This book is written from research completed by her late daughter, Candace, a respected lighthouse historian, premier lighthouse researcher. Candace documented the role of women in the lighthouse service, among other topics.  Honored as well for other types of maritime history services, she was an officer of the American Lighthouse Council and a recipient of the lifetime Ross Holland Award for distinguished service in lighthouse preservation. She worked closely with the US Lighthouse Society as its historian assisting with the creation of, among other things, the largest lighthouse related research archive in the nation, that is named in her honor.