Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White (Andrew Sillen - CH) weapon adding considerably to the existing

adding considerably to the existing literature on the experiences of citizen soldiers in America’s Civil War

although he has some unexplainable encounters

They would assault it again with a very different result the following spring when General Joe Hooker

By late 1862

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Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White (Andrew Sillen - CH) weapon adding considerably to the existingby Andrew Sillen The true story of David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor enslaved on the high seas during the Civil War, whose life story was falsely and intentionally appropriated to advance the Lost Cause trope of a contented slave, happy and safe in servility. David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor from Lewes, Delaware, was kidnapped by Captain Raphael Semmes of the Confederate raider Alabama on October 9, 1862, from the