CSS Alabama Guns Restored

     I was happy to read this afternoon that the lengthy process of restoring two of the guns brought up from the wreckage of The CSS Alabama is over. One of them in on the way to the Museum of Mobile.

     The Civil War raider CSS Alabama has a special place in my heart because of the research Bob Corley and I did for that not-to-be APT documentary about the ship and her Captain, Raphael Semmes.

     The folks at the Museum of Mobile were gracious to us, and I salute them on obtaining the cannon (they have a reproduction on display now (above), and some other actual artifacts from the ship, including some of her ceramic bathroom fixtures and her bell!