John C. Reed
Raphael Semmes born, 1809
September Twenty-Eighth
The Alabama had been built in perfect good faith by the Lairds. When she was contracted for no question had been raised as to the right of a neutral to build and sell to a belligerent such a ship. The reader has seen that the Federal Secretary of the Navy himself had endeavored not only to build an Alabama, but ironclads in England.
Raphael Semmes
John Laurens born, 1754
September Twenty-Ninth
When summer flowers are dying,
August past,
When Autumn’s breath is sighing
On the blast;
When the red leaves flutter down
To the sod,
Then the year kneels for its crown—
Goldenrod!
Virginia Lucas
September Thirtieth