Memoirs of service afloat during the War Between the States
Publisher: Blue & Grey Press
Published: 1987
Language: eng
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 833
ISBN-13: 9781555211776
Subjects: Alabama (Ship); Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America; History, Naval; Naval operations; Personal narratives, Confederate; Semmes, Raphael; Sumter (Confederate cruiser); United States
First sentence: THE story of the Confederacy at sea is to a large extent the story of Raphael Semmes, the most successful nineteenth-century practitioner of the naval strategy of commerce raiding.