Sailor's Remains from CSS Alabama U.S. Civil War Ship
Buried in Ceremony
The Associated Press, July 28, 2007

Mobile, Alabama: A Civil War-era sailor's remains
recovered several years ago from a shipwreck at the
bottom of the English Channel were buried Saturday in
a ceremony in Alabama.

The unidentified sailor's skeletal remains were found
encrusted on the underside of a cannon that was raised
from the wreck of the CSS Alabama in some 200 feet (60
meters) of water.

The Confederate warship was sunk in the channel off
the coast of France on June 19, 1864, by the Union
warship USS Kearsarge. More than 400 artifacts have
been recovered from the site by American and French
divers.

The CSS Alabama had a crew of about 120 members, most
of whom were rescued by boaters in the area, but about
a dozen crew members drowned or were never heard from
again, said Robert Edington, a Mobile attorney who is
president of the CSS Alabama Association.

The ship was known for preying on merchant ships from
the union north around the world.

The Confederacy was the 11 southern slave-owning
states whose secession from the union in part began
the 1861-1865 Civil War between the North and South.

Saturday's funeral procession began downtown at the
site of the statue of Adm. Raphael Semmes, who was the
commanding officer of the CSS Alabama, and ended at
Magnolia Cemetery where the sailor was buried.

The sailor's remains were in a handmade wooden coffin
pulled by a horse-drawn caisson, accompanied by
members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

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