On June 19, 1864, during the American Civil War, there was a single-ship action between a United States Navy warship, USS Kearsarge, and a Confederate States Navy warship, CSS Alabama. Where was this battle fought?
The Battle of Cherbourg, or sometimes the Battle off Cherbourg or the Sinking of CSS Alabama, was a single-ship action fought during the American Civil War between a United States Navy warship, USS Kearsarge, and a Confederate States Navy warship, CSS Alabama, on June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France.
After five successful commerce raiding missions in the Atlantic Ocean, CSS Alabama turned into Cherbourg Harbor on June 11, 1864. The Confederate States sloop-of-war was commanded by Captain Raphael Semmes, formerly of CSS Sumter. It was Captain Semmes' intention to drydock his ship and receive repairs at the French port.
On June 14, Kearsarge finally caught up with Alabama as she was receiving repairs. Kearsarge did not attack, as Alabama was in a neutral port; instead, she waited, initiating a blockade of CSS Alabama in Cherbourg. Union Captain Winslow telegraphed USS St. Louis to request her assistance, but the fighting began before she could arrive. Confederate Captain Semmes used the time to drill his men for the coming battle. On June 19, CSS Alabama, with nowhere else to go, ran up the Stars and Bars and exited the harbor to attack Kearsarge. She was escorted by the French Navy ironclad Couronne, whose mission was to ensure that the ensuing battle occurred outside the French harbor.
During the battle, forty Confederate sailors were casualties (19 killed in action or drowned and 21 wounded). Another seventy or so were picked up by Kearsarge. Thirty or so were rescued by Deerhound, a British yacht, which Captain Winslow asked to help evacuate Alabama's crew, and three French pilot boats. Captain Semmes and fourteen of his officers were among the sailors rescued by Deerhound. Instead of delivering the captured Confederates to Kearsarge, Deerhound set a course for Southampton, thus enabling Captain Semmes' escape. This act severely angered Kearsarge's crew, who begged their captain to allow them to open fire on the British yacht. Captain Winslow would not allow this, so the Confederates got away and avoided imprisonment.
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The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama is an 1864 oil painting by Édouard Manet. The painting commemorates the Battle of Cherbourg of 1864, a naval engagement of the American Civil War between the Union cruiser USS Kearsarge and the Confederate raider CSS Alabama. Many spectators were able to see the battle from the coast of France and saw that USS Kearsarge sank CSS Alabama. Not having witnessed the battle himself, Manet relied on press descriptions of the fight to document his work. Within one month of this battle, Manet had already completed this painting and got it on display in the print shop of Alfred Cadart in Paris.
The painting was acquired by the French art collector Marguerite Charpentier in 1878 and is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Off Cherbourg, France.
Mac Mac said:
Cherbourg France
Cal in Vermont wrote:
In the English Channel off Cherbourg, France. Must have been way off course, the both of them.
Alan J answered:
Outside the port of Cherbourg, France.
Randall replied:
Cherbourg, France
Dave responded:
The Battle of Cherbourg was fought in the English Channel, where the wreck of Alabama was discovered in 1984. Both ships were of the latest design for wooden hulled warships, although they still had masts and sails, they also had steam engines and with screw (propeller) drives which allowed them to advance against wind and tide, or even no wind. That gave the ships great advantages in both speed and maneuverability over sailing ships in battle.
zorch said:
Cherbourg, France.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Battle of Cherbourg, France
Jacqueline responded:
The Confederate ship Alabama was sunk during the Battle of Cherbourg at the port of Cherbourg, France.
Dave in Tucson replied:
The battle between the USS Kearsarge & CSS Alabama was fought off of Cherbourg, France. Ended with the Alabama surrendering & sinking. The Alabama wreck was found in 1984.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
Cherbourg, France
DJ Useo wrote:
It was the 'Battle of Cherbourg'. My older brother was well into anything army-related, so I was exposed to it often.
BttbBob answered:
Just off of Cherbourg, Normandy, France... the chops of the English Channel...
This amateur Civil War historian (I prefer to call it the War of Secession) knows that from studying the naval aspects of that conflict. The Alabama was a very successful commerce raider that ranged and roved the globe capturing or sinking 65 Union merchant ships before being run to ground in Cherbourg.
It was an old-fashioned duel. The Kearsarge had the Alabama bottled up in Cherbourg harbor. Deciding to fight instead of waiting it out under French protection, the 'Bama's captain sent out an challenge to the Kearsarge that he was coming out and it was his intention to have at it like proper seamen...
... and the CSS Alabama met her doom...
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I became interested in that period of our history years ago after learning of a great-great-grandfather who was with the 12th Michigan Infantry Regiment. They fought in the 'western' campaigns and were most notably at the Battle of Shiloh (in the 'Hornet's Nest') and the Siege of Vicksburg. The 12th Michigan wound up the war in Arkansas after helping to take Little Rock and skirmishing thereabouts...
He was disabled out at war's end and my family has copies of those records from the National Archives. Family lore has it that his wife found him crawling up the lane leading to their place...
That ancestor, a 35 y/o farmer and father of 5 when he enlisted, came from a unique locale; a site certainly like no other in the US... A hamlet called Covert on the SE shore of Lake Michigan. Therein its name lies its uniqueness for, you see, Covert was a completely integrated community and was breaking laws to do so...
That story is detailed in this remarkable book...
"In the heartland of 19th century America, amid a roaring sea of racism and hatred, a mixed-race community existed where blacks lived as equal citizens with whites. Schools and churches were completely integrated, blacks and whites married and power and wealth were shared between the races. Starting in the 1860s, the people of Covert, Michigan, broke both the laws and barriers to attempt what then seemed impossible: to love ones neighbor as oneself!"
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Covert had a GAR chapter after the war and it, too, was integrated (photo in book) The black Covert men had enlisted in the federal US Colored Troops. Because of that they were denied participation in state GAR encampments.
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I have a signed copy of the book that my family received in 2009 from the author, now a non-resident History Fellow at Harvard, during Covert's Sesquicentennial Homecoming for being direct descendants of a founding family - the Teachouts... (there's a photo of their homestead in the book). I, my mother, and an uncle were asked to stand as Teachout representative recognition during ceremonies held in the high school auditorium amid the festivities... I wore my DAV garrison cap in honor of my ancestor's sacrifice...
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The mighty Wikipedia tells me this battle was fought off the coast of Cherbourg, France. I'm going to read the article to find out why to U.S. ships were duking it out off the coast of France.
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Daniel in The City replied:
The Battle of Cherbourg (France)
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