Service Afloat; or, The Remarkable Career of the Confederate Cruisers Sumter and Alabama, During the War Between the States

Raphael Semmes

Baltimore Publishing Co., 1887

Bound in early 3/4 leather over green boards. Rebacked. 833 pages. Steel engraved portraits and eight chromo-tint engravings.  General Services School, US Army, Leavenworth, Kansas stamp. Refs: Howes S 286; "A first-hand subjective account by the captain of the C. S. Sumter and Alabama; interestingly written." - Nevins I page 233 (citing the 1869 ed). 

From the library of Richard J. Sommers. Dr. Sommers was a military historian at the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Sommers authored a number of books on the Civil War, notably The Siege at Petersburg, and taught for 44 years.