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Photo # NH 66640: C.S. Navy officers who served in CSS Alabama

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-- SHIPS of the CONFEDERATE STATES --

CSS Alabama (1862-1864) -- Ship's Officers

This page features, or provides links to, images of CSS Alabama's officers.

For pictures of individual officers of CSS Alabama, see:

  • Captain Raphael Semmes, Commanding Officer;
  • First Lieutenant John McIntosh Kell, Executive Officer;
  • First Lieutenant Richard F. Armstrong, 2nd Lieutenant;
  • First Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair, IV, 4th & 5th Lieutenant;
  • Acting Master Irvine S. Bulloch, Sailing Master;
  • First Lieutenant Beckett K. Howell, Lieutenant of Marines;
  • Surgeon Francis L. Galt, Surgeon and Acting Paymaster;
  • First Assistant Engineer Miles J. Freeman, Chief Engineer;
  • Second Assistant Engineer Matthew O'Brien, Second Assistant Engineer;
  • Third Assistant Engineer John W. Pundt, Third Assistant Engineer;
  • Midshipman E. Maffitt Anderson, Midshipman.

    For links to additional views of, or relating to CSS Alabama, see:

  • CSS Alabama (1862-1864) -- Selected Views;


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 57256

    CSS Alabama (1862-1864)


    Captain Raphael Semmes, Alabama's commanding officer, standing by his ship's 110-pounder rifled gun during her visit to Capetown in August 1863. His executive officer, First Lieutenant John M. Kell, is in the background, standing by the ship's wheel.
    The original photograph is lightly color-tinted and mounted on a carte de visite bearing, on its reverse, the mark of E. Burmester, of Cape Town. See photo numbers NH 57256-KN for the colored image and NH 57256-A for a reproduction of the carte de visite's reverse.

    Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC), 1931.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 127KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57255

    CSS Alabama (1862-1864)


    Two of the ship's officers on deck, during her visit to Capetown in August 1863.
    They are Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair IV, (left) and Lieutenant Richard F. Armstrong. The gun beside them is a 32-pounder of Lt. Sinclair's Division.
    Halftoned image, copied from Sinclair's book, "Two Years on the Alabama".

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 131KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 66640

    Confederate States Navy Officers
    ,
    who served with Raphael Semmes

    Line engraving by H.B. Hall, Jr., New York, featuring portraits of seven officers who served with Semmes in CSS Alabama and were present during her engagement with USS Kearsarge.
    In center is Lieutenant Richard F. Armstrong.
    The others are (clockwise from top):
    Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair, IV (or Jr.);
    Midshipman Eugene A. Maffitt;
    Midshipman Edwin M. Anderson;
    Master's Mate George T. Fulham;
    First Lieutenant (later Captain) Becket K. Howell, Marine Corps; and
    Acting Master Irvine S. Bulloch.
    Howell and Armstrong also served with Semmes in CSS Sumter.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 151KB; 545 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57264

    Confederate States Navy Officers
    ,
    who served with Raphael Semmes

    Line engraving by H.B. Hall, Jr., New York, featuring portraits of seven officers who served with Semmes in CSS Sumter.
    In center is First Lieutenant John McIntosh Kell.
    The others are (clockwise from top):
    First Lieutenant Robert T. Chapman;
    First Assistant Engineer Miles J. Freeman;
    Paymaster Henry Myers;
    Lieutenant John M. Stribling;
    Surgeon Francis L. Galt; and
    First Lieutenant William E. Evans.
    Kell, Freeman and Galt also served with Semmes in CSS Alabama and were present during her engagement with USS Kearsarge.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 122KB; 545 x 765 pixels

     

    For pictures of individual officers of CSS Alabama, see:

  • Captain Raphael Semmes, Commanding Officer;
  • First Lieutenant John McIntosh Kell, Executive Officer;
  • First Lieutenant Richard F. Armstrong, 2nd Lieutenant;
  • First Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair, IV, 4th & 5th Lieutenant;
  • Acting Master Irvine S. Bulloch, Sailing Master;
  • First Lieutenant Beckett K. Howell, Lieutenant of Marines;
  • Surgeon Francis L. Galt, Surgeon and Acting Paymaster;
  • First Assistant Engineer Miles J. Freeman, Chief Engineer;
  • Second Assistant Engineer Matthew O'Brien, Second Assistant Engineer;
  • Third Assistant Engineer John W. Pundt, Third Assistant Engineer;
  • Midshipman E. Maffitt Anderson, Midshipman.

    For links to additional views of, or relating to CSS Alabama, see:

  • CSS Alabama (1862-1864) -- Selected Views;


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 12 July 2000
    Coding updated 5 May 2001