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Photo # 57836:  CSS Alabama, wash drawing by Clary Ray

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- SHIPS of the CONFEDERATE STATES --

CSS Alabama (1862-1864) -- Views of the Ship

This page features all our views of CSS Alabama.

For links to additional views of, or relating to CSS Alabama, see:

  • CSS Alabama (1862-1864) -- 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 57836

    CSS Alabama (1862-1864)


    Sepia wash drawing by Clary Ray, November 1894.

    Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 420 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85593-KN (Color)

    CSS Alabama (1862-1864)

    Painting by Rear Admiral J.W. Schmidt, USN (Retired), 1961, depicting the Alabama in chase of a merchant ship.

    Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.
    Donation of RAdm. J.W. Schmidt.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58738

    "The Pirate 'Alabama,' Alias '290,' Certified to be correct by Captain Hagar of the 'Brilliant'"


    Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting CSS Alabama burning a prize.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 177KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58740

    "The Confederate Privateer Steamer 'Alabama' ('290'), Captain Raphael Semmes -- from a photograph taken at Liverpool, where she was built"


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 56, depicting CSS Alabama at sea under steam and sail.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 162KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57257

    CSS Alabama (1862-1864)


    19th Century photograph of an engraving published in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War", Volume IV, page 601.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 420 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57259

    CSS Alabama (1862-1864)

    "In Chase"

    Halftone print copied from Arthur Sinclair's "Two Years on the Alabama", 2nd Edition, 1896.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 130KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57260

    CSS Alabama (1862-1864)


    19th Century artwork, depicting the ship in stormy seas.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57258

    CSS Alabama (1862-1864)


    Lithograph published by Seitz, Hamburg, Germany, circa the 1860s.
    Its depiction of the ship is rather inaccurate.

    Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 1936.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     

    The Naval Historical Center's collections include only artworks of CSS Alabama, and, until recently, there were no known photographs of her. However, in 1997 a researcher located an actual photograph of Alabama, as described below:

    -- Port broadside view of CSS Alabama, taken from slightly toward the bow. Photographed at Singapore, circa 22-23 December 1863.

    This photograph has been printed in "Civil War Times", issue of February 1998, page 14, and in "Military Images", issue of September-October 1997, pages 20-21. It is credited to the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, to which it was donated in 1922 by Mrs. A.L. Clark.

    For additional information on this item, the availability of reproductions and usage rights, contact the Tennessee State Library and Archives, which has a WEB Site that can be readily located using standard Internet search engines.

    For links to additional views of, or relating to CSS Alabama, see:

  • CSS Alabama (1862-1864) -- Selected Views;


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


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    Page made 12 July 2000
    Coding updated 5 May 2001