SERVICE AFLOAT by SemMes, Raphael

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Baltimore Publishing Co, 1887-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Bound in early 3/4 leather over green boards. Rebacked. 833 pages. Steel engraved portraits and eight chromo-tint engravings. General Services School, US Army, Leavenworth, Kansas stamp. Refs: Howes S 286; "A first-hand subjective account by the captain of the C. S. Sumter and Alabama; interestingly written." - Nevins I page 233 (citing the 1869 ed). <br> From the library of Richard J. Sommers. Dr. Sommers was a military historian at the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Sommers authored a number of books on the Civil War, notably The Siege at Petersburg, and taught for 44 years.

New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1893. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Minimal exlibrary markings, mainly on endpapers and title page. Binding and hinges are sound, pages clean, slightly tanned. Occasional shallow closed tear to some pages at upper or lower margin. Cloth over boards is edge worn with overall shelf wear including light scuffing. Pictorial design and lettering on front are visible with gilt a bit darkened with age. Gilt lettering on spine is darkened but visible. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving of the author, along with eight engravings, printed in chromo-tints, showing the two vessels in action. Detailed history of two important Confederate vessels in the American Civil War. ; Ex-Library; 9.5" tall; 831 pages.

1887 Confederate Navy Memoirs of Raphael Semmes Civil WAR Service Afloat RARE
Raphael Semmes was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War, commanding ships in the Confederate and the United States Navy. He published a collection of memoirs and war reminiscences describing his service in the navy during the Civil War; however, this work is primarily looked at as a defense of his actions during the Confederacy's inevitable loss, or 'Lost Cause'.
According to Nevins, this work is
"a first-hand, subjective account by the captain of the CSS Sumpter and the Alabama, interestingly written."
Item number: #19018
Price: $499
SEMMES, Raphael
Service afloat: or, the remarkable career of the Confederate cruisers Sumter and Alabama, during the war between the states
Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co., 1887.

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Collation: complete with all pages
o [2], xvi, 17-833, [1]
o 11 plates
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References: Howes S 286; Nevins I, 233; Sabin 79081
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Provenance: Handwritten – Tho. L.… Read More