So I have finally talked to some local people about it. It was given to anne bond in 1970 one year after the book that the capt of the css Alabama wrote. One of the pictures in the book are from the original painting that I have. Apparently he came to fairhope Alabama allot and thats where I got the painting. The capt did it and a lithograph company in Boston printed it for his book from what I understand. I live near Mobile Alabama. Or semmes, Alabama. Named after the capt. ..
So it is the painting that the engraver used for the picture in the book that the capt wrote and published in 1869.
I can make out a signature that is “S -me-“ I can’t see where the dashes are. Maybe Semmes!
Wow.
So apparently it really helps to talk to the person that you buy paintings from about the story behind them before spending so much time reserching unknowns lol