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Online Library of Selected Images:
EVENTS -- THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR -- CRUISER ACTIVITIES --

USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864 --
Scenes Later in the Battle, as Alabama was Sinking (Part II)

This page features more images of the later part of the battle between USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama.

See USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864 -- Scenes Later in the Battle, as Alabama was Sinking (Part I) for further images of this phase of the action.

For links to additional views of, or relating to, this action, see:

  • Kearsarge vs. Alabama, 19 June 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 1169

    Action between USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864


    Print depicting the Alabama sinking at the close of the battle, with small portraits of the two ships' commanders, John A. Winslow (left) and Raphael Semmes.

    Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 127KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 59292

    "Sinking of the 'Alabama' ('290'), Captain Semmes, after an hour's engagement with the 'Kearsarge', Captain Winslow, off Cherbourg, France, June 19th, 1864."


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 253, depicting USS Kearsarge at left and the British yacht Deerhound at right. In the right center, boats from both vessels are rescuing crewmen from the sinking Alabama.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 184KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 65697

    "Sinking of the Pirate Alabama by the Kearsarge."


    Line engraving by Roberts, published in "Leslie's Illustrated", depicting CSS Alabama sinking in the foreground, with USS Kearsarge at left and the British yacht Deerhound in the right distance. The battle took place off Cherbourg, France, on 19 June 1864.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 174KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46958

    "Battle of the 'Kearsarge' and 'Alabama' off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864."


    Line engraving after a sketch by Frank Beard, published in "Pictorial Battles of the Civil War", page 366, depicting the sinking of CSS Alabama, with USS Kearsarge in the right distance.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 165KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 49995

    Sinking of CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France, at the end of her battle with USS Kearsarge, 19 June 1864.


    Civil War era photograph of an artwork, mounted on a Carte de visite. Kearsarge is at the left. In the center distance is the British yacht Deerhound, coming up to assist in rescuing Alabama's crew.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 505 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51020

    USS Kearsarge sinking CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864.


    Civil War era print.

    Presented by Colonel J.R. Taylor, October 1938.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 136KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     

    See USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864 -- Scenes Later in the Battle, as Alabama was Sinking (Part I) for further images of this phase of the action.

    For links to additional views of, or relating to, the Kearsarge - Alabama action, see:

  • Kearsarge vs. Alabama, 19 June 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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    13 July 2000