Photo #: NH 58739
CSS Alabama (1862-1864)
Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War",
volume I, page 399, depicting the Confederate cruiser decoying
ships toward herself by burning a prize vessel.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 85575-KN (Color)
"The Confederate Sloop-of-War '290', or Alabama, Leaving
the Merchant-Ship Tonowanda
Hand-tinted copy of a line engraving, after a drawing by Smyth,
published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862.
CSS Alabama captured the packet ship Tonowanda
southeast of Nova Scotia on 8 October 1862. The prize was released
on bond to carry prisoners captured on other ships taken by the
Alabama.
Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 57261
"Capture of the U.S. Mail Steamer 'Ariel,' off the East
End of Cuba, by the Privateer 'Alabama,' December 7th 1862"
Line engraving, from a sketch by R.C. Thomas, published in "The
Soldier in Our Civil War", volume II, page 33, depicting
CSS Alabama capturing the steamer Ariel with hundreds
of passengers on board, including about 150 U.S. Marines.
Ariel, en route from the U.S. to Panama with mail and
passengers en bound for California, was ransomed and released,
and her military passengers were paroled.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59351
"The Approach of the British Pirate 'Alabama'."
Line engraving after a drawing by Homer, published in "Harper's
Weekly", Volume VII, January-June 1863, page 268, depicting
an anxious scene aboard a merchant ship as the Confederate cruiser
Alabama comes up.
This may represent the capture of the California mail steamer
Ariel off Cuba on 7 December 1862, as there were many
ladies among the prize ship's passengers.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 42372
USS Hatteras (1861-1863) -- in center
In action with CSS Alabama, off Galveston, Texas, on 11
January 1863.
Lithographed by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore, Md.
Hatteras was sunk in this engagement.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53690
USS Hatteras (1861-1863) (right)
19th Century print, depicting the sinking of Hatteras
by CSS Alabama, off Galveston, Texas, 11 January 1863.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 93330
"Passage of the Alabama by the Small Channel between
the Islands of Canto, Running Away from the Kearsarge"
Photograph of an oil painting by Henry Abreu, presented by his
father, Dr. Eduardo Abreu to Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry,
USN, at the time that the "Great White Fleet" passed
through the Azores, 1 January 1909.
The painting depicts a reported incident involving CSS Alabama
in the Azores, in about 1862.
The Naval Historical Foundation holds a portfolio of presentation
photographic prints of this scene, each with an inscription mounted
at the left. The original oil painting was in the Collections
of the Navy Department in 1982, but was in relatively poor condition.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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