Semmes
[ semz ]
noun
Raphael, 1809–77, Confederate admiral in the American Civil War.
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The Daily Pic: Beverly Semmes's clay and Freddie Brice's paint collide in New York.
Semmes lost six hundred and eighty-three killed and wounded, Wafford five hundred and sixty-two.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.Kershaw's and (p. 207) Wofford's brigades were on the right of the road; Semmes's and Mahone's on the other side.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.Wilcox and Semmes several times advanced upon Sedgwick, but were repulsed.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.In the January of that year, Raphael Semmes was seized and thrown into prison.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals | T. C. DeLeon
Semmes was picked up by a yacht, with forty sailors, the Kearsarge rescued some, and all the rest were drowned.
The Blue and The Gray | A. R. White
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