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Divers recover cannon from CSS Alabama in English Channel
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer ^
| Tue, Jul. 12, 2005
Posted on 07/14/2005 10:35:41 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SunkenCiv; blam; Fiddlstix; FairOpinion
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posted on
07/14/2005 10:36:18 AM PDT
by
nickcarraway
(I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/14/2005 10:40:30 AM PDT
by
ex-Texan
(Mathew 7:1 through 6)
To: nickcarraway
I want one!
(oh, sorry.. I thought this was a new firearms thread)
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posted on
07/14/2005 10:41:08 AM PDT
by
Hard Way
(Razor nothin'. I'm firing up Occam's Chain Saw)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
The CSS Alabama was quite a ship. Great to see her remembered. Thanks for the post and refreshing my history memory.
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posted on
07/14/2005 10:44:25 AM PDT
by
MBB1984
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/14/2005 10:47:39 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
To: nickcarraway
Cheers to the CSS
Alabama & Captain Raphael Semmes!
Sink them Yankees!!!!
];^b)
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posted on
07/14/2005 10:48:13 AM PDT
by
sonofatpatcher2
(Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: nickcarraway
We live in a town named after the Captain's (Raphael Semmes) namesake: Semmes, AL
To: nickcarraway
We live in a town named after the Captain's (Raphael Semmes) namesake: Semmes, AL
To: nickcarraway
Sorry, the dreaded "double post" boogie man got me.....
To: nickcarraway; stainlessbanner
Semmes and Kell stand forward of the Alabama's wheel and next to the 8-inch aft pivot gun.
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posted on
07/14/2005 10:52:08 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(I am the Sultan of Oom-Papa-Mow-Mow.)
To: nickcarraway; SAMWolf
Sounds like a great subject for the FReeper Foxhole.
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posted on
07/14/2005 10:52:58 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
To: nickcarraway
It was
Kearsage, not "Kearsarge".
The error is in the original story. (Maybe the Columbus paper got it wrong on purpose? < g > )
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posted on
07/14/2005 10:53:55 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: nickcarraway
. . . CSS Alabama . . . Those Confederate ships had style, didn't they? html humor OFF!
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posted on
07/14/2005 11:00:21 AM PDT
by
Andyman
(The world should not be ruled by those who are most easily offended.)
To: Constitution Day; wardaddy; archy
Rather scruffy lookin' raspcallions!
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posted on
07/14/2005 11:01:34 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: AnAmericanMother
It was Kearsage, not "Kearsarge".You sure about that? I've always seen it spelled "Kearsarge," from the old 1880s "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" book to the present day.
To: nickcarraway
They will be allright as long as they dont bring up an old Confederate flag and try to fly it.
To: nickcarraway
By the way, this thread gives me a chance to once again plug Harry Harrison's "Star & Stripes" trilogy. If you like alternate history, this ones a doozy. If you only read the first book, you'll be quite satisfied. You don't have to hunt down the second and third books (although you'll be happy if you do).
The gist of it: Price Albert passes away sooner than he did and as a result is unable to prevent the British from going to war with the Union. Now, that in itself would make for a very short book as the Union would collapse being attacked from both ends. However, let's just say that something goes wrong with the British's surprise attack.
TS
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posted on
07/14/2005 11:15:14 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(By definition, We can never have Consensus until You agree with Me.)
To: gridlock
One of the lesser known stories of the Civil War is the letter that Seward drafted to send to France and England at the start of the war, just about threatening war with the US if either country interceded, via arms shipments, or trade, with the CSA. The leter was personally rewritten by Lincon, to tone it down. Seward's idea was to provoke a war with a European country, with the ideaa that the Confederacy would rejoin the Union to fight against the common enemy.
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posted on
07/14/2005 11:27:40 AM PDT
by
ken5050
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