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Semmes and Officers of the CSS
Sumter
Semmes and Officers of the CSS
Sumter
Confederate Commander
Raphael Semmes
, seated center, poses here with the officers of the CSS
Sumter,
a
Confederate Navy
raider that captured 18 U.S. merchant ships during the early years of the
Civil War
.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center