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Revered by the Confederacy for his daring sea raids, dismissed by his northern contemporaries as nothing more than a pirate, Semmes remains a compelling figure in American military history. During a two-year cruise, his Alabama took nearly 100 Federal merchant vessels out of the war. In her final battle she engaged in an epic clash befitting the last one-on-one duel of wooden ships. Confederate Raider tells the fascinating story of this unyielding and courageous man, commander of the most successful sea raider of all time.
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It is a minor scandal that this excellent biography is the first full-scale treatment of Raphael Semmes, the most distinguished commerce raider not only of the Confederacy but in all American naval history. Semmes, who was born in Maryland, served with distinction in the Mexican War, then went with the Confederacy over the states' rights issue and commanded both the C.S.S. Sumter and the famous Alabama. He emerges from these pages as an extremely able and aggressive sea warrior but in many respects not a very sympathetic human being--an unreconstructed Southerner, something of a martinet, and chivalric to the point of mismanaging his duel with the U.S.S. Kearsarge. Taylor's writing is a model of clarity, of balance, and of filling in the background for the nonspecialist reader. His biography deserves wide readership and certainly a place in Civil War and naval history collections. Roland Green
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- PublisherPOTOMAC BOOKS
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1574880276
- ISBN 13 9781574880274
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages317
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