On this date 160 years ago, Confederate Admiral Raphael Semmes was released from custody and returned to his hometown of Mobile.
He had been in jail after his arrest by Northern military forces towards the end of the American Civil War.
My friend and former co-worker Bob Corley and I created a blog about the CSS Alabama, the ship Semmes used during the Civil War to sink Northern ships. You can see the entries from that blog HERE.
(left) That's Semmes at the front of The CSS Alabama. She was eventually sunk off the coast of France on June 9th, 1864.
Bob and I eventually had to drop the project when Alabama Public Television dropped the funding.
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