CSS Alabama's New England Expeditionary Raid

CSS Alabama

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

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

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

  • 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
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  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".