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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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