Download or read book MEMOIRS OF SERVICE AFLOAT DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES written by ADMIRAL RAPHAEL SEMMES and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter written by Raphael Semmes and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Raphael Semmes Confederate Admiral written by Robert Welter Daly and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Service Afloat written by Raphael Semmes and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Confederate Raider written by John M. Taylor and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confederate Raider is the enthralling story of the Civil War as fought on the high seas by Raphael Semmes, the Confederacy's most famous and revered naval officer. Yet many of his Northern contemporaries considered the Yankee-hating Semmes nothing more than a pirate. In either guise, Semmes commanded the most successful sea raider of all time - the C.S.S. Alabama. During a two-year cruise, she took nearly a hundred Federal merchant vessels out of the war and became a household word on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. Her final battle, off the coast of France against the U.S.S. Kearsarge, was an epic clash befitting the last one-on-one duel of wooden ships. A commander who carried out his mission without being able to bring his ship into a Southern port and whose crew had no allegiance to the Confederacy, Semmes is a brilliant and compelling figure in American military history.

Download or read book Raphael Semmes written by Colyer Meriwether and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States written by Raphael Semmes and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-05-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States chronicles the American Civil War as seen by Confederate General and Admiral Raphael Semmes. Perhaps best remembered for his famous and devastating cruise onboard the raider CSS Alabama, Semmes recounts how the tiny Confederate Navy almost brought Union shipping to its knees. Semmes provides an important historical perspective in his defense of the South and secession.

Download or read book A Monument to Admiral Raphael Semmes C S N written by United Confederate Veterans. Raphael Semmes camp and published by . This book was released on with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Collected Memoirs of the Civil War Leaders written by Raphael Semmes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 6357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you the collection of Civil War memoires, diaries and journals. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the key personalities of the Civil War including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, William Sherman, Jefferson Davis, Raphael Semmes and many more. Contents: History of Civil War, 1861-1865 Leaders & Commanders of the Union Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant Charles Anderson Dana William Tecumseh Sherman Philip Henry Sheridan John Beatty John Alexander Logan Thomas Wentworth Higginson Lemuel Abijah Abbott Leaders & Commanders of the Confederation Jefferson Davis – A Short History of the Confederate States of America James Longstreet Raphael Semmes Gilbert Moxley Sorrel Richard "Dick" Taylor Isaac Hermann John Singleton Mosby Heros Von Borcke

Download or read book Raphael Semmes Rear Admiral Confederate States Navy Brigadier General Confederate States Army written by Raphael Semmes and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Raphael Semmes written by Warren F. Spencer and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval hero for all the South, Raphael Semmes (1809-1877) sailed two famous Confederate raiders. He outfitted CSS Sumter in 1861 and captured 18 Union merchant ships in six months before the raider was blockaded at Gibraltar. Next he took command of CSS Alabama, an English-built raider, and terrorized U.S. merchant vessels on the high seas from August 1862 until the raider was sunk in battle off Cherbourg in June 1864. During that two-year period, he captured more enemy merchant ships than any other cruiser captain in maritime history. He is considered one of the greatest ship's commanders that America has produced. In this first, full-scale biography that relies on Semmes's private papers, unpublished diaries, and correspondence, Spencer has produced a well-balanced and comprehensive account of the man, as well as the naval officer. The biographer paints a vivid portrait of Semmes—the intellectual, the family man, lawyer, romanticist, nationalist—providing a greater understanding of the man behind the heroic deeds. Semmes was born in Maryland to a slave-holding family and entered the United States Navy in 1826. In 1849, he moved his family to Mobile, Alabama, to be near the navy base at Pensacola, Florida, and to practice law during leaves. Semmes was an astute student, not only of international and maritime law but also of weather patterns; astronomy; flora and fauna; naval, social, and cultural history; and the classics. His study of constitutional law led him to side with his adopted state in 1861, a move that set the stage for his place in history.

Download or read book Raphael Semmes Rear Admiral Confederate States Navy Brigadier General Confederate States Army written by Caldwell Delaney and published by . This book was released on 1978-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Semmes written by John M. Taylor and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the daring career of the South's greatest naval hero, the commander of the CSS Alabama

Download or read book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy written by Edward Boykin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual portrait of the Confederate naval commander Raphael Semmes, who captured, burned or sunk sixty-nine merchant ships, and of his raiding cruiser, "Alabama".

Download or read book Raphael Semmes written by Robert W. Daly and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Service Afloat Or the Remarkable Career of the Confederate Cruisers Sumter and Alabama During the War Between the States by Admiral Raphael Semmes written by Raphael Semmes and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter written by R. Semmes and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A famous rebel naval captain tells his story The author of this book, Captain Semmes, was one of the most renowned American seamen of his time-particularly among the sailors of the Confederacy. Whilst it was essential that every nation have its own naval force, for the Southern states this was doubly important because the new 'nation' was heavily reliant on agriculture and its exports, had a paucity of essential manufacturing and was subjected to rigorous blockade by the Federal government to ensure there would be no free or uncontested passage of either. This book covers the activities of two notable and famous ships of the C. S. N-the steamers Alabama and Sumter, and no one was in a better position to report the activities of the Confederate Navy at sea and at war than Captain Semmes who commanded these ships. This essential source work on this subject is available in soft back and cloth bound collectors' hard back with dust wrapper, head and tail bands and gold foil lettering to the spine.