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Alabama Public Television will air a new Robert Clem film on the Confederate commerce raider on Aug. 3.
Confederate Navy Adm. Raphael Semmes was known for commanding the Confederate raider CSS Alabama during the Civil War. He was memorialized in 1900 with a statue that long stood in downtown Mobile ...
In telling White’s story, “Kidnapped at Sea” dispels the notion that White was a willing participant aboard the CSS Alabama.
The story of the Confederate privateer ship CSS Alabama and its captain, Raphael Semmes.
During the Civil War, he was captain of the famous commerce raider CSS Alabama, which took a record sixty-five prizes. Commerce raiding is a strategy used in naval warfare that involves attacking ...
This past week, the Civil War Preservation Trust designated a new historical site -- in England. The shipyards there supplied the Confederate Navy with some of its ships, including the CSS Alabama ...
A cannon from the deck of the CSS Alabama, the famous Confederate raider, goes on display at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center this weekend.
As Phil Keith and Tom Clavin show in their fascinating book “To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth” (April 12), CSS Alabama was easily the most successful of those raiders and became the most ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Scientists at the same lab where the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is being restored announced Friday they have finished conserving two guns from the famed Confederate naval ...
In 1863, the USS Hatteras lost a fierce fight against the CSS Alabama and sunk, 18 miles off the coast of Galveston, Texas. Now, 150 years later, the USS Hatteras has been found, thanks to 3D ...