Raphael Semmes
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Raphael Semmes was an officer in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He was previously a serving officer in the US Navy from 1826 to 1860.
Raphael Semmes
Semmes and John McIntosh Kell
1864 engraving of the sinking of CSS Alabama
Raphael Semmes
Confederate States Navy
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The Confederate States Navy (CSN) was the naval branch of the Confederate States Armed Forces, established by an act of the Confederate States Congress on February 21, 1861. It was responsible for Confederate naval operations during the American Civil War against the United States's Union Navy.
Pennant of Admiral Franklin Buchanan used at Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1864
Confederate naval flag, captured when General William Sherman took Savannah, Georgia, 1864
CSS Virginia, an ironclad warship
A 1961 painting of CSS Alabama