Nanjemoy, Maryland
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Nanjemoy is a settlement along Maryland Route 6 in southwestern Charles County, Maryland, United States, and the surrounding large rural area more or less bounded by Nanjemoy Creek to the east and nor
Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, photographed in 1910
Great blue herons at a nest
Fossil specimens of a Turritella snail
Raphael Semmes
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Raphael Semmes was an officer in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He had served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1860.
Nanjemoy, Maryland
…at low tide at Mallows Bay, and they are regarded as the "largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere." Famous people born in Nanjemoy include Raphael Semmes, captain of the Confederate cruiser CSS Alabama, and Matthew Henson, with whom Robert Peary explored the Arctic in 1909 and who with Peary may have…
Raphael Semmes
Semmes and John McIntosh Kell
1864 engraving of the sinking of CSS Alabama
Raphael Semmes