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The Rebel raiders : the astonishing history of the Confederacy's secret Navy
- Title
- The Rebel raiders : the astonishing history of the Confederacy's secret Navy / James Tertius deKay.
- Author
- De Kay, James T.
- Publication
- New York : Ballantine Books, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | E596 .D33 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 257 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- The history of the Confederates plans to build a navy with the covert aid of the British. The plan culminated in the building of the C.S.S. Alabama.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-257).
- Contents
- Part 1 : Bulloch. Montgomery -- Liverpool -- Number 290 -- Nemesis -- The Enrica -- The Passmore affidavit -- Escape -- Part 2 : Semmes. Terceira -- First blood -- The Grand Banks -- Off the Georges Bank -- The Pirate Semmes -- "An instance of sublime Christian heroism" -- USS Hatteras -- Straws in the wind -- Brazil -- The Laird rams -- Simon's Bay -- Singapore -- To Cherbourg -- Battle -- The Shenandoah -- Part 3 : Adams. The claims -- Sumner's speech -- Geneva -- l'Envoi.
- ISBN
- 0345431820
- 9780345431820
- LCCN
- 2002019420
- OCLC
- ocm49247338
- 49247338
- SCSB-1253571
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library