The Alabama and the Kearsarge: The Sailor's Civil War

by William Marvel

Book Overview

On June 19, 1864, the Confederate cruiser Alabama and the USS Kearsarge faced off in the English Channel outside the French port of Cherbourg. About an hour after the Alabama fired the first shot, it began to sink, and its crew was forced to wave the white flag of surrender.

Working with personal papers and diaries and contemporary reports, historian William Marvel interweaves the stories of these two celebrated Civil...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807822949
• ISBN13: 9780807822944
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher