When the Southern Lights Went Dark: The Lighthouse Establishment During the Civil War - Paperback

by Mary Louise Clifford (Author), J. Candace Clifford (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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, J. Candace Clifford, a respected lighthouse historian and premier lighthouse researcher.