Semmes

[ semz ]

noun

1. 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.

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Semmes lost six hundred and eighty-three killed and wounded, Wafford five hundred and sixty-two.

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Kershaw's and (p. 207) Wofford's brigades were on the right of the road; Semmes's and Mahone's on the other side.

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Wilcox and Semmes several times advanced upon Sedgwick, but were repulsed.

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In the January of that year, Raphael Semmes was seized and thrown into prison.

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Semmes was picked up by a yacht, with forty sailors, the Kearsarge rescued some, and all the rest were drowned.

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