SEMMES, RAPHAEL

sĕmz, 1809–77, American naval officer, b. Charles co., Md. He took part in the Mexican War, practiced law at Mobile, Ala., and was in the Lighthouse Service from 1856 to Feb., 1861, when he resigned his commission as commander. He soon took the same rank in the Confederate navy. His first ship, the Sumter, did considerable damage to Northern commerce before she was bottled up at Gibraltar in Jan., 1862. In Aug., 1862, Semmes, now a captain, took command of the Alabama (see Confederate cruisers), and a two-year cruise made him the naval hero of the Confederacy. After the Alabama was sunk by the Kearsarge, Semmes returned to the South. He was promoted to rear admiral (Feb., 1865) and charged with the naval defense of Richmond.

See H. A. Gosnell, Rebel Raider (1948); C. G. Summersell, The Cruise of C.S.S. Sumter (1965).

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books on: Semmes Raphael  - 151 results

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English Language Criticism on the Foreign Novel: 1965-1975
Book by Harriet Semmes Alexander; Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1989
Subjects: Fiction--History And Criticism--Bibliography
...His Precursors , pp. 101-20. PUGH, ANTHONY R. "Ten Years of Balzac Studies." Modern Languages , 46 1965 , 91-97. RAPHAEL, SYLVIA. "Balzac and the Modern Reader," in Balzac And The Nineteenth Century , pp. 21-33. RASER, GEORGE B. The...
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A Handbook of American Military History: From the Revolutionary War to the Present
Book by Jerry K. Sweeney; University of Nebraska Press, 2006
Subjects: United States--History, Military--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
SEMMES, RAPHAEL (1809-1877). Semmes began his naval career in 1826, studied law on the side, and...Gen. Winfield Scotts army. Following his service in Mexico, Semmes practiced law in his home near Mobile, Alabama, until the start...
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Leaders of the American Civil War: A Biographical and Historiographical Dictionary
Book by Charles F. Ritter, Jon L. Wakelyn; Greenwood Press, 1998
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography--Dictionaries, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography--Dictionaries
...215, 273, 340, 367, 416, 417 Semmes, Anne Elizabeth Spencer, 340 Semmes, Catherine Middleton, 339 Semmes, Raphael, xx, 275, 277, 325, 339- 45 Semmes, Raphael (uncle of the Confeder- ate Navy Captain), 339 Semmes, Richard Thompson...
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The South in the Building of the Nation
Book by J. A. C. Chandler, Franklin L. Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Thomas E. Watson, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Walter L. Fleming, J. Walker McSpadden; Southern Historical Publication Society, 1909
Subjects: American Literature--Southern States, Southern States--Biography, Southern States--Economic Conditions, Southern States--History
...Coeur with M. Bresil, 1858 . SEMMES, ALEXANDER JENKINS, surgeon, cousin of Admiral Raphael Semmes: b. Georgetown, D. C., Dec...Pregnancy and Parturition 1875 . SEMMES, RAPHAEL, naval commander and author...
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The Alabama & the Kearsarge: The Sailor's Civil War
Book by William Marvel; University of North Carolina Press, 1996
Subjects: Alabama (Ship), Confederate States Of America--Navy--Military Life, Kearsarge (Sloop), United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval Operations, United States--Navy--History--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States--Navy--Military Life
...88 February, 1897 : 125-84. Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral Confederate States...Maine . New York: Norton, 1948. Semmes Raphael. The Cruise of the Alabama and...and Other Papers of Commander Raphael Semmes, C.S.N., and Other Officers...
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Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Raider CSS Alabama
Journal article by Donald Rakestraw; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 75, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Raider CSS Alabama (Biography)--Book reviews
Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Raider CSS Alabama...Donald Rakestraw Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Raider CSS Alabama...Stephen Foxs Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Raider CSS Alabama...
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Fiction as a Springboard to U.S. History Research Projects
Journal article by Frances A. Nadeau; Social Studies, Vol. 85, 1994
Subjects: History--Study And Teaching, Social Sciences--Study And Teaching
...capture and burn Northern ships. ODell combines the fictional Jim Lynne with the factual story of Captain Raphael Semmes. Topics : Raphael Semmes (1809-1877) Encounter at Cherbourg, France, (June 11, 1864) between the Kearsarge and the Alabama...
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Richmond Burning: the Last Days of the Confederate Capital
Journal article by Robert C. Kenser; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 110, 2002
Subjects: American Civil War, Fires, Lankford, Nelson D, Nonfiction, Richmond Virginia
...difficulties faced by Confederate admiral Raphael Semmes. After receiving orders from Navy...the Rev. White entered the city, Semmes and his sailors then had to flee...ironclad units steam engineers, Semmes and his men finally started a train...
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Southern History in Periodicals, 2000: A Selected Bibliography
Journal article; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 67, 2001
...The Civil War Correspondence of Private Henry Hoberg. Mo. Hist. Rev., v. 94, April, 264-86. SCOTT RYE. Raphael Semmes Versus King Neptune CSS Alabama. Civil War Times Ill., v. 39, Dec., 42-47, 82-83. RICHARD A. SAVERS...
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The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Journal article by James M. Beeby; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 67, 2001
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Book)
...Welsh (in which the author does not engage at all with the historiography on Irish identity in the U.S.) and Raphael Semmes (in which the author just recounts the career of this Confederate naval officer) seem the most guilty of this charge...
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Alabama Vs. Kearsarge the Battle of Cherbourg
Magazine article by Bud Feuer; Sea Classics, Vol. 44, July 2011
...of the Alabama was the cunning Raphael Semmes who set a record of piracy on...shortest time." In every respect, Raphael Semmes measured up to the qualifications...of 17 October 1862 stated, "Raphael Semmes may have had the appearance of...
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Mexican War Fought by Few
Magazine article by Richard K. Kolb, Joe Moran; VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, Vol. 88, January 2001
Subjects: Mexican-American War, Pierce, Franklin (1804-69), Politics, Presidents, Social impact, Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850)
...from the Army in 1867; dying shortly thereafter. RAPHAEL SEMMES (1809-1877) b. Charles Co., Md. Naval Officer...Writer Famous as a Confederate Navy commerce raider, Raphael Semmes also gained prominence in the South as an educator...
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An Uncertain Influence: The Role of the Federal Government in California, 1846-1880
Magazine article by Robert J. Chandler; California History, Winter 2003
Subjects: California--History, Federalism--History
...United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 (1973; reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984). (5.) Raphael P. Thian, Notes Illustrating the Military Geography of the United States, 1813-1880, ed. John M. Carroll (1881; reprint...
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Ritual
Magazine article by Andre Bernard; American Scholar, Vol. 70, Autumn 2001
Subjects: Manners and customs--Quotations
...expletive, which would escape them when something went wrong in the dance, and they forgot they had the aprons on. --RAPHAEL SEMMES, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, 1869 In several species of so-called Empid Flies...
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A Surge of Skepticism
Magazine article by William S. Lind; American Conservative, Vol. 7, December 15, 2008
Subjects: Afghanistan, Armed forces, Bombings, Iraq, Military strategy, Radical groups, United States, War
...remind ourselves why the Puritans were called Puritans-and perhaps also to remember the favorite phrase of Capt. Raphael Semmes of the C.S.S. Alabama: "the cockatrices egg that hatched forth the Puritan..." If this diagnosis is valid...
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newspaper articles on: Semmes Raphael  - 24 results

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'Semmes' Is Saga of a Naval Raider
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 31, 2004
Subjects: Semmes, Raphael
Semmes Is Saga of a Naval Raider. Byline: Duncan Spencer, SPECIAL TO THE...seaborne raider, the Alabama, and its quirky, clever commander, Raphael Semmes. Semmes waged a one-ship war on the merchant marine of the Union, sinking...
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Semmes Made Legend of Confederate 'Raiders'
Newspaper article by Brent Hughes; The Washington Times, September 11, 1999
Semmes made legend of Confederate raiders by...Orleans on June 30, 1861. Her captain was Raphael Semmes, who would go on to command the famous...vessel the Alabama and become a legend. Semmes was born in 1809 in Charles County, Md...
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Naval Battle of Wood against Iron; Confederate Vessel Hands Union Ship Quick Defeat
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 18, 2005
Subjects: Semmes, Raphael
...SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Raphael Semmes was spoiling for a fight. His...victory for the wooden vessel. Raphael Semmes had defeated a Federal warship...include "Confederate Raider: Raphael Semmes of the Alabama." Raphael Semmes...
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Maryland's Two Rebel Admirals; Northern State Yields the Only Top Confederate Naval Officers
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 28, 2006
Subjects: Buchanan, Franklin, Naval officers, Navies--Officials and employees, Semmes, Raphael
...ranking naval officer, while Raphael Semmes became its most famous naval hero...on the Eastern Shore in 1874. Raphael Semmes was born in Charles County, Md...lives in Annapolis. Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes, CSS Sumter CSS Alabama. Library...
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Luck Runs out for Raider Sumter; Rebel Ship Finally Falters amid Storm
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 23, 2004
Subjects: Semmes, Raphael
...remedy the situation. Cmdr. Raphael Semmes began to assess the value of vessels...is inclined to wonder whether Raphael Semmes ever learned of its fate. * Peter...multinational firm in this country. Raphael Semmes amp;#91;NO CREDIT amp...
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encyclopedia articles on: Semmes Raphael  - 4 results

 
 
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Semmes, Raphael
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SEMMES, RAPHAEL semz, 1809 77, American naval officer...Gibraltar in Jan., 1862. In Aug., 1862, Semmes, now a captain, took command of the...the Alabama was sunk by the Kearsarge, Semmes returned to the South. He was promoted...
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Civil War , in U.S. History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...other hand, Confederate cruisers , built or bought in England (see Alabama claims ) and captained by men such as Raphael Semmes , destroyed or chased from the seas much of the U.S. merchant marine. The War in the West That the "war was won...
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Mobile , City, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...cathedral, the city hall (1858), and Marine Hospital (1842). Of historical interest are the homes of Admiral Raphael Semmes and Gen. Braxton Bragg, the headquarters of Gen. Canby, and forts Morgan and Gaines at the entrance to Mobile...
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Confederate Cruisers
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1864. The most famous of the cruisers was the Alabama, also built at Liverpool in 1861 62. Under the command of Raphael Semmes she took almost 70 prizes. Her damage to U.S. shipping was valued at more than $6 million in the settlement of...


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