The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

PHILADELPHIA — The bell once hung on the deck of the CSS Alabama, the most feared Confederate raiding vessel of the Civil War. Cannon shots and shells whistled past it during a fierce duel with ...

At any rate, Semmes got his ship. First it was the CSS Sumter, a commercial vessel refitted for Confederate service as a commerce raider; then it was the CSS Alabama, a cutting-edge ship built for ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Scientists at the same lab where the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is being restored announced Friday they have finished conserving two guns from the famed Confederate ...

The Case of the Ship Nora, Captured by the Alabama. Share full article. Aug. 16, 1863. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 16, 1863, Page 8 ...

Phil Nasser talked about Captain Raphael Semmes, a commerce raider during the American Civil War. Captain Semmes was an officer in the United States Navy before joining the Confederate States Navy.

The city of Mobile in Alabama removed a controversial Confederate statue early Friday morning without announcing the decision beforehand. The 120-year-old bronze monument represented Admiral Raphae… ...