[snippy_about_it]

You must come back and tell us all about it after you read it! I'll look it up after I get home and see if I can find the book too.

Of course I'm already way behind on my reading but it sounds like it would be good.

Thanks

[SAMWolf]

CSS Alabama Sinking the USS Hatteras off Galveston, Texas.

Source: U.S. Navy Photographic Center

Caption: "THE CAPTURE OF THE U.S. MAIL STEAMER ARIEL, CAPT. JONES, OFF THE EAST END OF CUBA, BY THE PIRATE ALABAMA (290), CAPT. SEMMES, DECEMBER 7.--FROM A SCETCH BY MR. R.C. THOMAS, FIRST OFFICER OF THE ARIEL.

Source: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Jan. 10, 1863.