OPINION:
After reading Joseph Goulden’s book review of “A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War” (“When Britain sided with the South,” Tuesday), I wonder whether author Amanda Foreman called CSS Alabama a “privateer.”
The ship didn’t operate under letters of marque as a privateer. CSS Alabama was a commissioned warship in the Confederate States Navy.
MICHAEL SHUMAKER
Fairfax, Va.
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