Waves of honor / written by John Schluter. c2001.

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Waves of honor / written by John Schluter. c2001.

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Waves of honor, the story of one of the most unusual naval engagements of the Civil War, fought just outside the harbor of Cherbourg France. The story of black men in the Navy when blacks were treated equal in the American Navy. In fact a black man on the Union ship in this battle Joachim Pease, won the Medal of Honor for his part in this action. The story of two captains, the captain of the C.S.S. Alabama Captain Semmes, determined to prove his merchant raider a true warship. Captain Winslow of America's first battleship, the U.S.S. Kearsarge, determined to sink the rebel raider. A story of lost and found love between Captain Winslow and his home port love, stranded in France after her ship is sunk by the rebel raider America. A battle,, more of a duel, fought just outside Cherbourg harbor as fifteen thousand Frence watched from the heights of Cherbourg in the summer of 1864.

[1], 113 leaves ; 28 cm.

Navy Department Library, Naval History & Heritage Command

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Navy Department Library, Naval History & Heritage Command

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Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877

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Officer in the U.S. Navy and in the Confederate Navy, from Mobile, Ala. From the description of Papers, 1861-1872. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20313995 ...

Schluter, John

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Kearsarge (Sloop)

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The USS Kearsarge was launched in 1861. She defeated the CSS Alabama during the American Civil War and patrolled the coasts of Japan, China, and the Philippines from 1874 to 1877. From the guide to the Payroll of the USS Kearsarge, 1874-1875, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Alabama (Screw sloop)

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C.S.S. Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, England, in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Company. Alabama served as a successful commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never anchored in a Southern port. She was sunk in battle by the U.S.S. Kearsarge in June 1864 at the Battle of Cherbourg outside the port of Cherbourg, France. From the guide to the C. S. S. Alabama ...

Winslow, John Ancrum, 1811-1873

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U.S. naval officer. From the description of Papers of John Ancrum Winslow, 1864-1888. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80813431 Born on November 18, 1811 in Wilmington, NC, Winslow went on to serve in the Civil War. He commanded the Kearsage in European waters in attempts to sink Confederate cruisers that were attacking Union ships. He sank the Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg, France, on June 19, 1864. He later was promoted to commodore and became commander of the Pacific S...