The battle of the U.S.S. Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama from Personal Accounts and Official Reports. A View of the Fight from a Yankee Standpoint: "The Duel Between the Alabama and the Kearsarge," by the Surgeon of the "Kearsarge" John M. Browne; Kearsarge and Alabama by William H. Bedlam, (Late Engineer Corps, U. S. Navy); The U. S. S. Kearsarge's Engagement with the C. S. S. Alabama in Official Union Reports, extracts from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion; Photographs of USS Alabama.

The battle of the U.S.S. Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama from Personal Accounts and Official Reports. A View of the Fight from a Rebel Standpoint: extracts from the Private Journals and Other Papers of Commander Raphael Semmes (CSS Alabama), C.S.N. And Other Officers; extracts from the Memoirs of Service Afloat, During The War Between the States by Admiral Raphael Semmes, Of The Late Confederate States Navy; The Cruise and Combats of the "Alabama" By Her Executive Officer First Lieutenant John. McIntosh Kell; extracts from the Recollections of a Naval Life including the Cruises of the Confederate States Steamers "Sumter" And "Alabama" by John McIntosh Kell, executive officer of "Sumter" and "Alabama"; extracts from the Two Years On the Alabama by Arthur Sinclair, Lieutenant, C.S.N.; A View of the Fight with The "Alabama" From A Rebel Stand-Point by Unknown Englishman; Report of the Actions of the John Lancaster of the Yacht Deerhound in Rescuing Survivors of the Alabama; Statement of Evan Parry Jones, Captain of the Yacht Deerhound; Official Confederate Reports extracts from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion; Photographs of CSS Alabama.

The enthralling story of the greatest Civil War battle at sea by the award-winning and bestselling historians Phil Keith and Tom Clavin. On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a clear day with windswept skies, the dreaded Confederate raider Alabama faced the Union warship Kearsarge in an all-or-nothing fight to the finish, the outcome of which would effectively end the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas. Authors Phil Keith and Tom Clavin introduce some of the crucial but historically overlooked players, including John Winslow, captain of the USS Kearsarge, as well as Raphael Semmes, captain of the CSS Alabama. Readers will sail aboard the Kearsarge as Winslow embarks for Europe with a set of simple orders from the secretary of the navy: "Travel to the uttermost ends of the earth, if necessary, to find and destroy the Alabama." Winslow pursued Semmes in a spectacular fourteen-month chase over international waters, culminating in what would become the climactic sea battle of the Civil War.

SOUTHERN CULTURE CONTAINED ELEMENTS THAT PROVED DYSFUNCTIONAL TO WINNING A PRE-MODERN WAR FOR SECESSION. SOUTHERN CAVALIERS WERE OFTEN MORE CONCERNED WITH THEIR OWN AMBITIONS AND SEARCH FOR HONOR AND POPULARITY. ROBERT E. LEE LOST THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG BECAUSE JEB STUART WAS MORE CONCERNED WITH HIS HONOR THAN WITH FOLLOWING ORDERS. OTHER GENERALS REFUSED TO COOPERATE AND REFUSED TO PREVENT THE UNION CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS AND VICKSBURG.

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