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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 707 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 112 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 89 1 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 87 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 73 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 67 5 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 44 4 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 37 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 29 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 28 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders.. You can also browse the collection for Raphael Semmes or search for Raphael Semmes in all documents.

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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 33: (search)
r, carrying nine guns, under command of Capt. Raphael Semmes, was the first really formidable experion the 19th August. Shortly thereafter Capt. Raphael Semmes assumed command. Hoisting the Confeder the Kearsarge, was lying off the harbour. Capt. Semmes might easily have evaded this enemy; the bueriority of the Federals on the water. But Capt. Semmes had been twitted with the name of pirate ; motives of the gratuitous fight with which Capt. Semmes obliged the enemy off the port of Cherbourgmage, when, after more than an hour's fire, Capt. Semmes ascertained that his own vessel was in a siursued her, was four hundred yards distant, Capt. Semmes hauled down his colours, and prepared to su struck. It is charitable to suppose, says Capt. Semmes, that a ship of war of a Christian nation c, and rescued most of them from the water. Capt. Semmes was taken by the Deerhound's boat from the face to the rescuing party, and said: I am Capt. Semmes-save me. He was eagerly taken aboard when [1 more...]