Logbook kept by Raphael Semmes while he served as commanding officer aboard the C.S.S. Alabama.
A transcription is included. (The log entry on page 22 describes the capture of a ship and one of its "waiters," who is described as "a slave, from Delaware.") The Alabama, one of the most well-known Confederate raiding vessels of the Civil War, captured sixty-five American vess...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | A transcription is included. (The log entry on page 22 describes the capture of a ship and one of its "waiters," who is described as "a slave, from Delaware.")
The Alabama, one of the most well-known Confederate raiding vessels of the Civil War, captured sixty-five American vessels and sank one Union warship between the summer of 1862 and the spring of 1864, when it was sunk by the USS Kearsarge during the battle of Cherbourg. |
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