CSS Alabama's New England Expeditionary Raid

CSS Alabama's New England Expeditionary Raid commenced shortly after the Confederate States Navy ship CSS Alabama left the Azores and cruised west toward the northeastern seaboard of Newfoundland and New England along the North American coastline. The primary area of operation during this expeditionary raid, was the eastern seaboard of the United States ranging as far down as Virginia and Bermuda.

Raid overview[edit]

CSS Alabama worked its way down the east coast during the month of October capturing three ships, and burning ten others, and encountering a hurricane along the way. Finally, departing station off the New England coast, the ship set sail for Martinique to rendezvous with its supply vessel, CSS Agrippina, burning two more ships on the way.

From this raiding area off the coast of New England, CSS Alabama made its way into the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico to continue its unhindered wrecking of enemy commerce along the North American coastline.

Raid bounty[edit]

**CSS *Alabama*'s New England Expeditionary Raid^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]**
Date	Ship name	Ship type	Location	Disposition of prize	Value
October 3, 1862	Emily Farnum	Merchant	Near New England	Released
October 3, 1862	Brilliant	Merchant	Grand Banks of Newfoundland	Burned	$164,000
October 7, 1862	Bark Wave Crest	Merchant	Southeast of Nova Scotia	Burned	$44,000
October 7, 1862	Brig Dunkirk	Merchant	Southeast of Nova Scotia	Burned	$25,000
October 11, 1862	Tonawanda	Packet	Near New England	Bonded & Released
October 11, 1862	Manchester	Merchant	Southeast of Nova Scotia	Burned	$164,000
October 15, 1862	Bark Lamplighter	Merchant	Off Nova Scotia coast	Burned	$117,600
October 21, 1862	Bark Lafayette	Merchant	South of Halifax	Burned	$100,337
October 26, 1862	Schooner Crenshaw	Merchant	Off New England coast	Burned	$33,869
October 28, 1862	Bark Lauraetta	Merchant	Near St. George's Bank	Burned	$32,880
October 29, 1862	Baron de Castine	Merchant	Near New York	Bonded & Released
November 2, 1862	Levi Starbuck	Whaler	Off Virginia coast	Burned	$25,000
November 8, 1862	T. B. Wales	East India trader	Near Bermuda	Burned	$245,625

References[edit]

Hearn, Chester G., Gray Raiders of the Sea, Louisiana State Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8071-2114-2
Luraghi, Raimondo, A History of the Confederate Navy, U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1996. ISBN 1-55750-527-6
United States. Naval History Division, Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865, Dept. of the Navy, 1961. ISBN 1-2584-8984-8

^ "Navychronology1862b".
^ "Marysville Daily Appeal 13 June 1869 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu.
^ "Clipped from the Times". The Times. 17 November 1862. p. 28.
^ "The Confederate union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1862-1865, November 18, 1862, Image 1 « Georgia Historic Newspapers".
^ "Browse | Cornell University Library Making of America Collection".

[1] "Navychronology1862b".

[2] "Marysville Daily Appeal 13 June 1869 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu.

[3] "Clipped from the Times". The Times. 17 November 1862. p. 28.

[4] "The Confederate union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1862-1865, November 18, 1862, Image 1 « Georgia Historic Newspapers".

[5] "Browse | Cornell University Library Making of America Collection".

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v t e CSS Alabama
Leadership & Men	Raphael Semmes John McIntosh Kell James Dunwoody Bulloch Irvine Bulloch John Laird Sons and Company
Expeditionary Raids	Eastern Atlantic New England Gulf of Mexico South Atlantic South African Indian Ocean South Pacific
Yards & Ports of Call	Birkenhead Azores Cape Town Flores Island Corvo Island Martinique Simon's Town Cherbourg
Battles	Action off Galveston Light Battle of Cherbourg
List of ships of the Confederate States Navy