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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 8 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 2 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) 1 1 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
red. A few debris of the wreck were floating around this silent witness, but she seemed to have carried her secret with her to the bottom of the sea: no shipwrecked mariner was there to reveal it. In the evening a boat which had escaped the disaster gave an explanation of the affair. In the preceding volume we left the Confederate privateer Alabama at the end of November, 1862, slipping away from the Federal sloop-of-war San Jacinto, which had tried to blockade her in the port of St. Pierre, Martinique. The Secretary of the Navy at Washington persisted in sending in pursuit of this fast sailer vessels which were much inferior to her in speed, and from which she could easily get away when by chance she happened to encounter one. At the same time, he left without any protection whatever those well-known points where the Alabama was sure to make rich captures, such as the whaling-station near the Azores, where Semmes had struck his first blows against the merchant marine of the Unit