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Service Afloat, Semmes, 1887

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Description

Heading: (Civil War)
Author: Semmes, Admiral Raphael
Title: Service Afloat; The Remarkable Career of the Confederate Cruisers Sumter and Alabama, during the War Between the States
Place Published: Baltimore
Publisher:Baltimore Publishing Company
Date Published: 1887
Description:

833 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece, color and b&w plates. (8vo) 23x16 cm (9x6"), rebound in three quarter morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, gilt lettering and design, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Second Edition.

Finely bound copy of a Civil War classic. The volume originally appeared in 1869 with a slightly different title. Raphael Semmes was an officer in the Confederate navy during the American Civil War. Prior to this, he had been a serving officer in the United States Navy from 1826 through 1860. During the American Civil War, Semmes was captain of the cruiser CSS Alabama, the most successful commerce raider in maritime history, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never docked at a Southern port. She was sunk in June 1864 by USS Kearsarge at the Battle of Cherbourg outside the port of Cherbourg, France.

Condition

Some wear and soiling to binding, rubbing to extremities; slightly discolored area on front pastedown where bookplate once was, a few chips to front free endpaper, a bit of light foxing; very good.

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Service Afloat, Semmes, 1887

Name: Service Afloat, Semmes, 1887
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