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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 92 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. | 49 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Sumter, the
One of the Confederate cruisers whose depredations led to the make — up of what are popularly known as the Alabama claims against Great Britain.
the Sumter was a regularly commissioned war-vessel, which before the
Gold box presented to Anderson. beginning of the Civil War was the Havana packet-steamer Marquis de Habana.
She was commanded by Capt. Raphael Semmes, had a crew of sixty-five armed men and twenty-five marines, and was heavily armed.
Her cruising area was among the West India Islands and along the Spanish coast, and she captured many American merchantmen.
At the close of 1861 she was forced to seek shelter under British guns at Gibraltar, where she was watched so closely by the United States steamer Tuscarora that escape was impossible, and early in 1862 she was sold and withdrawn from the Confederate service.
See Alabama claims, the; Confederate privateer