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A 5 page book review of Edward Boykin's Ghost Ship of the Confederacy (1957), which tells the amazing story of the Alabama and her extraordinary captain, Raphael Semmes. In doing so, Boykin profiles an area of Civil War history that is not generally known to the public, while creating a text of high adventure and expert naval strategy. No other sources cited.
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profiles an area of Civil War history that is not generally known to the public, while creating a text of high adventure and expert naval strategy. In fact, relating
a sense of adventure is one of Boykins primary goals. The first sentence of his preface states that the "saga of Raphael Semmes and his raiding cruiser, the Alabama, has
always seemed to me to comprise...the best out-and-out adventure story of the Civil War" (iv). As this suggests, Boykin does not concern himself with the politics of the war, but
rather he concentrates specifically on the relating a naval story that emphasizes the expertise of Semmes and his crew in accomplishing their task, which was to disrupt US shipping, drawing
American naval vessels away from the blockade that was instituted around Southern ports. The text of this book that was available to this writer/tutor does not mention Boykins background
or qualifications as an historian. Furthermore, a survey of Internet sources revealed no references to Boykins background as an historian. However, it is apparent from the text that Boykin consulted
numerous primary sources, such as Semmes daily journal and his autobiography Memoirs of Service Afloat; the official records of both the Union and Confederate Navies, as well as the official
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the University of Virginia, the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the
Office of Naval Records in Washington and the Confederate Museum in Richmond. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that this scholarly research in writing this book was extensively. The
principal theme of Boykins account is to relate the pivotal role that the Alabama played in naval warfare during the American Civil War and also to illustrate the brilliance
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