CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge Battle Map, June 19, 1864

Scanned by

Rebecca Solnit, Dickinson College

Scan date

06/15/2010

Depicted ContentThe private British steam yacht "Deerhound" lands rescued survivors of the raider "Alabama" at Southampton

Depicted ContentThe Confederacy's most successful commerce raider meets its end off the French coast

Depicted ContentSinking of CSS Alabama

Image type

map

Original caption

Chart of the Action off Cherbourg

Source citation

Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel, and the Century Company, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War ...: Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers (New York: Century Company, 1887), 296.