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On June 19, 1864, the Confederate cruiser Alabama and the USS Kearsarge faced off in the English Channel outside the French port of Cherbourg. About an hour after the Alabama fired the first shot, it began to sink, and its crew was forced to wave the white flag of surrender. Working with personal papers and diaries and contemporary reports, historian William Marvel interweaves the stories of these two celebrated Civil War warships, from their construction to their climact…

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History Transportation Nonfiction Military History Ships & Shipbuilding United States History Navy & Naval History United States Armed Forces United States History - Southern Region 19th Century United States History - Civil War General & Miscellaneous Naval History Navy - United States Armed Forces Ships - Military Vessels Alabama - State & Local History Confederate States of America - Armed Forces Union - Armed Forces - Civil War History United States Civil War - Naval Operations Confederate States of America - State & Local History United States - Naval History

The Alabama and the Kearsarge: The Sailor's Civil War

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