CSS Rob Roy

The CSS Rob Roy was a Confederate blockade runner which, commanded by Captain William Watson, ran to and from Bermuda, the Bahamas and Cuba from 1862 to 1864, during the American Civil War.

Watson, who had immigrated from Great Britain several years before, had originally enlisted in the Confederate Army as a sergeant before being wounded at the Battle of Corinth, and discharged due to his injuries. Hiring out a schooner, commissioned as the Rob Roy, Williams would bring in desperately needed supplies into blockaded southern ports, specifically Galveston, Texas before selling the ship after financial disagreements with business associates. Williams would later write about his wartime naval career in an autobiography The Civil War Adventures of a Blockade Runner in 1892.

Further reading

• Watson, William. The Civil War Adventures of a Blockade Runner. Texas A & M University Press, 2001. ISBN 1-58544-152-X Glasgow University have linked this directly to Magaret Mitchels Gone with the Wind

References

• Linedecker, Clifford L., ed. Civil War, A-Z: The Complete Handbook of America's Bloodiest Conflict. New York: Ballentine Books, 2002. ISBN 0-89141-878-4