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 Cornith. Hiring out a schooner, commissioned as the Rob Roy, Williams would bring in desperately needed supplies into blockaded southern ports, specially Gavelston, Texas. Williams would later write about his wartime 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 158544152X

References

• Linedecker, Clifford L., ed. Civil War, A-Z: The Complete Handbook of America's Bloodiest Conflict. New York: Ballentine Books, 2002. ISBN 0-9141-878-4