CSS Alabama's South Atlantic Expeditionary Raid
- CSS Alabama's South Atlantic Expeditionary Raid
The CSS "Alabama's" South Atlantic Expeditionary Raid commenced shortly after the CSS Alabama left Haiti and the Caribbean Sea and cruised south toward Brazil in the south Atlantic Ocean. The raid lasted from about the beginning of February, 1863 to the end of July, 1863.
The primary area of operation during this expeditionary raid, was the Atlantic seaboard of South America starting from the northern end of Brazil then ranging up down along the Brazilian coast before finally heading east toward southernAfrica.
Raid overview
The CSS "Alabama" worked it's way slowly down the east coast of Brazil in the most devastating of its seven raids, capturing or burning dozens of enemy Yankee vessels.
From this raiding area off the coast of Brazil, the CSS "Alabama" made her way into the Indian Ocean by way of the Cape of Good Hope to continue her unhindered wrecking of enemy commerce in the Indian Ocean as far as Indonesia.
Raid bounty
References
*Hearn, Chester G., "Gray Raiders of the Sea", Louisiana State Press, 1996. ISBN 0807121142
*Luraghi, Raimondo, "A History of the Confederate Navy", U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1996. ISBN 1557505276
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