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Ghost Ship Of The Confederacy The Story Of The Alabama And Her Captain Ralph Semmes
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Book Synopsis Ghost Ship of the Confederacy by : Edward Boykin
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".
Book Synopsis Ghost Ship of the Confederacy; the Story of the Alabama and Her Captain, Ralph Semmes by : Edward Boykin
Download or read book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy; the Story of the Alabama and Her Captain, Ralph Semmes written by Edward Boykin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by : Raphael Semmes
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 Wolf of the Deep written by Stephen Fox and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The electrifying story of Raphael Semmes and the CSS Alabama, the Confederate raider that destroyed Union ocean shipping and took more prizes than any other raider in naval history. In July, 1862, Semmes received orders to take command of a secret new British-built steam warship, the Alabama. At its helm, he would become the most hated and feared man in ports up and down the Union coast—and a Confederate legend. Now, with unparalleled authority and depth, and with a vivid sense of the excitement and danger of the time, Stephen Fox tells the story of Captain Semmes's remarkable wartime exploits. From vicious naval battles off the coast of France, to plundering the cargo of Union ships in the Caribbean, this is a thrilling tale of an often overlooked chapter of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by : Raphael Semmes
Download or read book Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter written by Raphael Semmes and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following account of the cruise of the two Confederate States steamers-Sumter and Alabama-is taken from the private journals and other papers of Captain Semmes.
Book Synopsis Ghost Ship of the Confederacy by : Edward Boykin
Download or read book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy written by Edward Boykin and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shark of the Confederacy by : Charles M. Robinson
Download or read book Shark of the Confederacy written by Charles M. Robinson and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English-built Confederate commerce raider Alabama is easily the best-known ship from the American Civil War. This book is essentially the biography of that ship - how she came to be, her mission, her cruises, and her destruction. By far the most inclusive, thorough book yet written on this famous American warship, it chronicles everything from construction to destruction, as well as her recent salvage.
Book Synopsis The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by : R. Semmes
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.
Book Synopsis The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by : Raphael Semmes
Download or read book The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter written by Raphael Semmes and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raphael Semmes (/sɪmz/ SIMZ; September 27, 1809 - August 30, 1877) was an officer in the Confederate navy during the American Civil War. Prior to this, he had been a serving officer in the United States Navy from 1826 through 1860.
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:
Book Synopsis Confederate Raider by : John M. Taylor
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.
Book Synopsis Raphael Semmes by : Warren F. Spencer
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.
Book Synopsis The Alabama and the Kearsarge by : William Marvel
Download or read book The Alabama and the Kearsarge written by William Marvel and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 19, 1864, the Confederate cruiser Alabama and the USS Kearsarge faced off in the English Channel outside the French port of Cherbourg. About an hour after the Alabama fired the first shot, it began to sink, and its crew was forced to wave the white flag of surrender. Working with personal papers and diaries and contemporary reports, historian William Marvel interweaves the stories of these two celebrated Civil War warships, from their construction to their climactic encounter off Cherbourg. Just as importantly, he illuminates the day-to-day experiences of their crews. From cabin boys to officers, sailors have been one of the most ignored groups of the Civil War. The sailors' lot was one of constant discomfort and monotony, interspersed with riotous frolics ashore and, occasionally, a few minutes of intense excitement and danger. Housed in damp, crowded quarters, their wartime mortality rate did not reach that of their army counterparts, but service-connected diseases shortened their postwar lives disproportionately. Most of the crewmen ended their lives in nameless obscurity, and their story has remained unwritten until now.
Book Synopsis Raphael Semmes: Captain of the Confederate Raider Alabama (Annotated) by : Colyer Meriwether
Download or read book Raphael Semmes: Captain of the Confederate Raider Alabama (Annotated) written by Colyer Meriwether and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only American to ever have held the ranks of admiral and general at the same time, Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes is best known as the commander of the Confederate raider, "Alabama." During his time commanding that ship, a record 65 U.S. merchant ships were captured by his crew and the Union warship Hatteras was sunk.Ranging the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific, and the Europe, from August 1862 to June 1864 the much despised "Alabama" was a sought-after target for U.S. warships. The U.S. ship "Kearsarge" finally caught up with the "Alabama" off France on June 19, 1864. She was destroyed and her crew, along with Semmes, was captured.This is the story of Semmes career before, during, and after the American Civil War.
Book Synopsis Four Years in the Confederate Navy by : William Stanley Hoole
Download or read book Four Years in the Confederate Navy written by William Stanley Hoole and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Low came to America from England in 1856 at the suggestion of his uncle, Andrew Low, a prosperous Savannah- Liverpool businessman. Just as he established himself in nautical businesses in Savannah the Civil War broke out. Low was ordered to England to help in the undercover task of buying, building, and convoying warships to the South. William Stanley Hoole traces Low's adventures in the service of the Confederacy. Low aided in the acquisition and delivery of the ironclad Fingal and the Florida. He served with Admiral Semmes aboard the famed raider Alabama and was involved in the capture, commissioning, voyage, and detention of the Tuscaloosa. His final task was to deliver the Ajax in the last days of the war.
Book Synopsis MEMOIRS OF SERVICE AFLOAT, DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES by : ADMIRAL RAPHAEL SEMMES
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:
Book Synopsis Captains of the Old Steam Navy by : James C Bradford
Download or read book Captains of the Old Steam Navy written by James C Bradford and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback for the first time, this collection of biographical essays delves into the careers of thirteen colorful naval leaders who guided the U.S. Navy through four turbulent decades of transition. Interpretive in approach, each essay emphasizes facets of the officer's personality or aspects of his career that made lasting contributions to the navy.
