"The Backdoor to the Confederacy" Topic
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Tango01  | 29 Jul 2020 3:46 p.m. PST |
"On April 2, 1863 British Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Frenmantle landed in the "miserable" village of Bagdad, Mexico. Seventy merchant ships off the shore for Confederate cotton. This was the backdoor to the Confederacy and a way around the Union blockade of the Southern States. Cotton could be sold and ammunition could be bought. Bagdad was a shanty town at the mouth of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) that had sprung up in the war, and "for an immense distance endless bales of cotton" to be seen. The New York Herald described Bagdad "as an excrescence of the war. Here congregated … blockade runners, desperadoes, the vile of both sexes; adventurers … numberless groggeries and houses of worse fame." The newspaper contended the cotton trade had filled the town's "low, dirty buildings" with millions in gold and silver…."
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| pzivh43 | 29 Jul 2020 4:00 p.m. PST |
Love that quote. I'm stealing it! |
| Tango01 | 29 Jul 2020 4:07 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
 ColCampbell | 29 Jul 2020 4:34 p.m. PST |
Sounds like a description of the port of Mos Eisley on Tatooine. Jim |
| 138SquadronRAF | 30 Jul 2020 8:39 a.m. PST |
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| Choctaw | 30 Jul 2020 9:07 a.m. PST |
Groggeries and houses of worse fame? I'm in! |
| Tango01 | 30 Jul 2020 12:15 p.m. PST |
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 deadhead | 30 Jul 2020 2:00 p.m. PST |
They have misspelt his name throughout (except in the legend to the one illustration) I will admit I thought this must be the same Freemantle of the film Gettysburg. Indeed it is! But I added too many E's. But he surely weren't no "Frenmantle". What a great story tho' and Mod Eisley on Tatoine is just inspired! |
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