The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter: From the Private Journals and Other Papers of Commander R. Semmes, C.S.N., and Other Officers
1864
The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter: From the Private Journals and Other Papers of Commander R. Semmes, C.S.N., and Other Officers
1864
The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter, published in 1864 by Raphael Semmes, is a historical account detailing the voyages of the Confederate Navy ships, the Sumter and the Alabama, during the American Civil War. The book provides insights into Semmes's command experiences, naval strategies, and the challenges faced by the Confederate Navy amidst Union blockades. It serves as a significant primary source for understanding naval operations and the broader context of the Civil War from the perspective of a Confederate officer.
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“Must the howling Demos devour everything gentle in the land, and reduce us all to the common level of the pot-house politician, and compel us to use his slang? Radicalism seemed to be now, just what it had been in the great French Revolution, a sort of mad-dog virus; every one who was inoculated with it, becoming rabid.””
— Raphael Semmes
“Liberty is always destroyed by the multitude, in the name of liberty.””
— Raphael Semmes
“The Puritan, if he had been whipped, would have been a capital secessionist, and as meek, and humble as we could have desired. He would have been the first to make a "perpetual" alliance with us, and to offer us inducements to give him the benefits of our trade. After the first drubbing we gave him, at Manassas, he was disposed to be quite reasonable, and the Federal Congress passed the conciliatory resolution I have quoted in a previous chapter, intimating to us, that if we would come back, slavery should be secure in the States, and our "rights and dignity" remain unimpaired. But as he gained strength, he gained courage, and as the war progressed, and it became evident that we should be beaten, he began to talk of traitors, and treason.””
— Raphael Semmes
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