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Sinking of the Alabama
The defeat of Raphael Semmes' CSS Alabama by John Winslow's USS Kearsarge took place off the coast of Cherbourg.
The sinking of the CSS Alabama by the USS Kearsarge.
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The Naval Duel Between the Alabama and the Kearsarge
"The Confederate cruiser called at Singapore in December 1863, but soon was back at sea to continue her commerce raiding. However, Alabama was increasingly in need of an overhaul and only captured a few ships in 1864. On 11 June of that year, Captain Semmes brought her to Cherbourg, France, for repairs. The Union steam sloop Kearsarge soon arrived off the port, and, on 19 June the Alabama steamed out to do battle. In an hour of intense combat, she was reduced to a sinking wreck by the Kearsarge's guns. As Alabama disappeared beneath the surface, her surviving crewmen were rescued by the victorious Federal warship and by the English yacht Deerhound. Her wreck was located by the French Navy in the 1980s"
SouthernHeart Lorrie
Yesterday's Question: What Confederate defeat did the people of Cherbourg, France witness in June of 1864? The sinking of the Alabama
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What future Union general was head of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning when the war began?
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William Tecumseh Sherman
William T. Sherman
>>> William Tecumseh Sherman <<<
1860 - The first classes are held at the Seminary of Higher Learning (later LSU) near Alexandria. The first president of the college is William Sherman, who later gained fame as a Union general during the Civil War.
Mark W. Swarthout, Esq.
GGGrandson of Pvt. John W. Swarthout, Company E, 148th NYVI - Wounded at Cold Harbor.
GGGGrandson of Pvt. Henry Stephens, Company D, 137th NYVI - Wounded at Culp's Hill, Gettysburg.
William Tecumseh Sherman.
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William T. Sherman
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William Sherman
William T. Sherman was the head of the LSSL.
William T. Sherman was the first president of the Louisiana State Seminary.
William T. Sherman a.k.a."Randall the candle"
That noted admirer of southern culture- William Tecumseh Sherman.
'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag'
-Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC.
Yesterday's Question: What future Union general was head of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning when the war began? William T. Sherman
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Of the eleven Confederate states, how many had men in Davis's Confederate cabinet?
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>>> 8 or 9 It Depends On Your Source <<<
The answer is 9.
Belle
Probably, you mean Jefferson Davis' 1st Cabinet...
1. Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana
2. Stephen R. Mallory of Florida
3. Christopher G. Memminger of South Carolina
4. John H. Reagan of Texas
5. Robert Toombs of Georgia
6. Leroy P. Walker of Alabama
7. Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia
Davis gave geographical balance to his administration by allocating each of the states that seceded before the attack upon Fort Sumter at least one representative in the first cabinet. (Davis himself represented Mississippi.)
Seven. There were none from Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, or Mississippi.
Note that the final Secretary of War, John Breckinridge, hailed from Kentucky, which never became a Confederate state.
I believe he had seven cabinet members.Seven were from seperate states.
9 had members. Just Arkansas and Tennessee did not.
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