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The story of the Confederate privateer ship CSS Alabama and its captain, Raphael Semmes.
Confederate Adm. Raphael Semmes, portrayed by Eric Tucker, speaks in the documentary “Sink the Alabama.” Courtesy of Robert Clem ...
Alabama's port city removed a statue of a Confederate naval officer early Friday after days of protests over the police killing of George Floyd, with the mayor saying the monument was a ...
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 wi… ...
That said ship, being a legally registered American ship, left the port of Bangor, in the United States, for the port of Liverpool, in Great Britain, on the 29th day of November, 1862.
(Courtesy Gordon Watts) This mammoth cannon from the Confederate sea raider CSS Alabama rests on a dock in France in this 2005 photograph after being recovered from the bottom of the English ...
This controversial April holiday is recognized in Alabama as a state holiday. What is it and when is it celebrated?
A descendant of Confederate Col. Edmund Rucker today denounced demands from Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen that Fort Novosel revert to being named after her distant cousin. “Rucker family ...
In the ’80s, Alabama often used the Confederate battle flag, whose public display is now the subject of intense national debate, as part of its branding, including on the covers of four of its ...
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… ...