Two Years on the Alabama.; With over thirty illustration

by Arthur Sinclair

$50 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1896. Third edition first published the previous year . Large 8vo. vi, 2 , 352 pp. Illustrations from photographs, plates, portraits. Sinclair 1837-1925 , a native of Norfolk, Virginia, served aboard the Virginia during the battle with the Monitor and then as a lieutenant under Raphael Semmes on the commerce raider Alabama after claiming 65 prizes around the world, 1862-1864, it was sunk off Cherbourg in a battle with the USS

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