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USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864 --
Miscellaneous Images

This page features miscellaneous images related to the battle between USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama.

For views taken on board USS Kearsarge, apparently shortly after her battle with CSS Alabama, see: USS Kearsarge -- Views on Board.

For views, and links to views, of individual officers and crewmen serving in USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama during their battle, see

  • USS Kearsarge -- Personnel & Relics; and
  • CSS Alabama -- Ship's Officers.

    For links to additional views of this action, see:

  • Kearsarge vs. Alabama, 19 June 1864 -- Selected Views


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 46955

    USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864


    19th Century photograph of a painting by Alfred C. Howland (1838-1909), depicting spectators watching the battle from a church yard at Cherbourg, France.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 1931

    Grave of Seaman James King, CSN


    In the U.S. Navy section of a cemetary at Cherbourg, France. Photographed circa the early 1900s.
    James King, 2nd, described in Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair's "Two Years on the Alabama" as "a splendid specimen of an Irishman" had joined the crew of CSS Alabama at Singapore in December 1863. Mortally wounded in the battle with USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg on 19 June 1864, he died after being taken to that ship following the action.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 130KB; 500 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58781

    USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864


    Section of Kearsarge's sternpost, with a shell imbedded in it that had been fired by the Alabama during the battle. This rifle shell is about seven inches in diameter and weighs about 56 pounds.
    Photograph was taken circa 1960, by which time the sternpost section had been encased in an expanded metal protective covering. By 1972, it was on exhibit at the U.S. Navy Memorial Museum, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 180KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 96016

    Navy Memorial Museum, Building 76, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.


    View in the Civil War exhibit area, March 1980, showing the sternpost of USS Kearsarge with an unexploded shell from CSS Alabama embedded in it, a relic of the 19 June 1864 battle between those two ships.
    Other artificts visible include the Historical Data Plaque of USS Cushing (DD-797), immediately to the right of the Kearsarge sternpost.
    Photographed by PH3c F. Brownson.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 154KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 60958

    "The Gun that settled the dispute"


    An Eleven-inch Dahlgren smoothbore gun in an artillery park, probably at the New York Navy Yard, sometime after the Civil War. Photograph published by E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York, circa the later 1880s.
    This gun is presumably one of the two XI" Dahlgrens carried by USS Kearsarge during her battle with CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France, on 19 June 1864.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 147KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     

    For views taken on board USS Kearsarge, apparently shortly after her battle with CSS Alabama, see: USS Kearsarge -- Views on Board.

    For views, and links to views, of individual officers and crewmen serving in USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama during their battle, see

  • USS Kearsarge -- Personnel & Relics; and
  • CSS Alabama -- Ship's Officers.

    For links to additional views of, or relating to, the Kearsarge - Alabama action, see:

  • Kearsarge vs. Alabama, 19 June 1864 -- Selected Views


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    14 July 2000