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Part 4: Battle with USS Kearsarge
C.S.S. Alabama: An Illustrated History
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Article
Publication Date
10-11-2017
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Abstract
“June 19: Lying off Cherbourg. Moderate breeze from the westward. At 10:20 am discovered the Alabama steaming out of the port of Cherbourg, accompanied by a French ironclad steamer and a fore-and-aft rigged steamer, showing the white English ensign. Beat to general quarters and cleared for action. Steamed ahead, standing offshore, being distant from land about 2 leagues; altered our course and approached the Alabama."
Official Records of Union and Confederate Navies, I, 3, p.64.
Citation Information
Jack L. Dickinson. "Part 4: Battle with USS Kearsarge" (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jack_dickinson/9/