CSS Alabama and USS Kersage

[observator]

reports by Winslow and Seames on loss of Alabama

Sinking of C.S.S. Alabama by U.S.S. Kearsarge - 19 Jun 1864

Report of Captain Winslow, U.S. Navy, commanding U.S.S. Kearsarge. U. S. S. KEARSARGE, Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864 SIR: I have the honor to inform the Department that the day subsequent to the arrival of the Kearsarge off this port, on the 14th instant, I received a note from Captain...

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Officers of the CSS Alabama

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CSS Alabama photographs
Seames and Lt Kell

File:Captain Raphael Semmes and First Lieutenant John Kell aboard CSS Alabama 1863.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

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Lt Kell

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Armstrong and Sinclair

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officers of the USS Kearsage

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https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.35564/ identiy of USS Kearsage officers

NH 61669 USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)

Ship's officers pose on deck, at Cherbourg, France, soon after her 19 June 1864 victory over CSS Alabama. Her Commanding Officer, Captain John A. Winslow, is 3rd from left, wearing a uniform of the 1862 pattern. Other officers are generally dressed in uniforms of 1863-64 types. View looks aft on...

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NH 51114 USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)

Montage of portraits of the ship's officers, circa 1864. They are identified on Photo # NH 51114 (complete caption). U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

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Crew

Newly Discovered Photo's CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge

Over the years I have done some research on the CSS Alabama and the findings of that research can be found at this site. Last month I receiv...

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NH 46716 USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)

Survivors of the U.S.S. Kearsarge Veterans of the Kearsarge's Civil War crew pose at a reunion, circa the 1890s. Those present are identified (as numbered) in Photo # NH 46716. 1. Austin Quimby, 2. John Young, 3. Charles A. Poole, 4. Wm. B. Poole, 5. Joel Sanborn, 6. George Remick, 7. John F...

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also

The Kearsarge and Alabama Datapage 5

Civil War Times Illustrated had an article on pictures taken of the USS Kearsage and that there was a picture of the CSS Alabama sinking...
see https://www.searlecanada.org/hemy/kearsargealabama5.html#rondin4 montage picture sinking in center top row
in fact it was faked https://www.jstor.org/stable/44033503

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

This source contains the following series of very detailed first person reminiscences of the sinking of the Alabama:

Life on the Alabama (by one of the crew) / P. D. Haywood -- page 901

Cruise and Combats of the "Alabama" (by her Executive Officer) / John McIntosh Kell -- page 911

The Duel between the Alabama and the Kearsarge (by the surgeon of the Kearsarge) / John M. Browne — page 923

Source:

Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Title from spine

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[rebelatsea]

As an odd footnote, Very few accounts mention the presence of the French Navy. The ironclad Couronne (The iron hulled 4th member of the Gloire class) accompanied CSS Alabama to sea and was present at the battle as an observer. Interestingly the turret ship HMS Royal Sovereign was due to visit Cherbourg on a shakedown cruise - and with a slight twist to the timeline, could also have been present.