CSS Alabama | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-31

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Alabama


00:00:45 1 History
00:00:54 1.1 Construction
00:05:41 1.2 Commissioning and voyage
00:11:43 1.3 Expeditionary raids
00:15:40 1.4 Final cruise
00:25:58 2 Officers
00:26:49 2.1 Confederate Medal of Honor awarded for valor
00:29:04 3 Repercussions
00:31:51 3.1 The wreck
00:38:02 4 Folklore and heritage
00:38:41 5 Battle ensigns and other naval flags
00:39:27 5.1 Surviving stars and bars
00:44:17 5.2 Surviving stainless banners
00:50:05 6 See also



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CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool, England by John Laird Sons and Company. Alabama served as a successful commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never docked at a Southern port. She was sunk in June 1864 by USS Kearsarge at the Battle of Cherbourg outside the port of Cherbourg, France.