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EBOOK THE CRUISE OF THE ALABAMA ***


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[Illustration: RAPHAEL SEMMES.]
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.
Two Volumes in One.
NEW YORK:
MDCCCLXIV.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
GEO. W. CARLETON,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.


ADVERTISEMENT
_TO THE LONDON EDITION._

The following account of the cruise of the two Confederate States
steamers--Sumter and Alabama--is taken from the private journals and
other papers of Captain Semmes. It has been found necessary occasionally
to adopt a narrative form, but the endeavour has been throughout to
adhere as closely as possible to that officer's own words.
Information has also been most kindly afforded by other officers of the
two vessels, and especially Lieutenant R.F. Armstrong, and Master's Mate
G. Townley Fullam, from whose private journals and other papers much
valuable assistance has been obtained.
A good deal of controversy has arisen respecting the legality of the
course pursued by the Alabama, in the case of certain vessels claiming
to carry a neutral cargo. In all these cases, however, great care was
taken by Captain Semmes to enter in his journal full particulars of the
claims, and of the grounds on which it was refused admission.
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