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The three seamen are William Gowen of the USS Kearsarge and George Appleby and James King of the CSS Alabama. The city is Cherbourg, France, near where the famous battle of the two ships took place June 19, 1864. http://civilwarnavy150.blogspot.com/2014/06/an-unusual-civil-war-cemetery.html
There are actually four Civil War Trust (successor to the Civil War Preservation Trust) historic sites in foreign countries. The other three are in Liverpool, England, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Bermuda, and appear to have been so designated since the designation of the seamen's graves and a museum at Cherbourg. http://www.civilwar.org/civil-war-discovery-trail/
There are actually four Civil War Trust (successor to the Civil War Preservation Trust) historic sites in foreign countries. The other three are in Liverpool, England, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Bermuda, and appear to have been so designated since the designation of the seamen's graves and a museum at Cherbourg. http://www.civilwar.org/civil-war-discovery-trail/