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The Global Manhunt For The Confederate Ship That Sunk Union Supply Vessels, From the Caribbean to the South Pacific

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The Confederacy and the Dukans

The south had good naval officers, and you'd thinkwell, howwas that? Because it didn't have a navy. But what tends to get overlooked as you had a number of very fine, well trained officers who were serving in the union navy until the civil war began. So when the time came, officers like raphael semmes, who was the commander of the alabama, resigned his commission in the united states navy and returned to his home in al Alabama. These were men with experience and training intelligence. And some o weren'tevan american, ow they were, they were from ireland. They were from the caribbian. It really didn't matter terribly

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