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TO THE UTTERMOST ENDS OF THE EARTH
By: Phil Keith
The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Shipโand the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War
Hanover Square Press
April 2022
On Sale: April 12, 2022
Featuring: Semmes; Winslow
304 pages
ISBN: 1335471413
EAN: 9781335471413
Kindle: B093Y8KKZB
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
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.
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