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 southern Africa.

Raid overview

The CSS Alabama worked its 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 0-8071-2114-2
• Luraghi, Raimondo, A History of the Confederate Navy, U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1996. ISBN 1-55750-527-6
• Howe and Matthews, American Clipper Ships 1833 - 1858 Volume I, Dover Publications, 1986. ISBN 0-486-25115-2

CSS Alabama
Leadership & Men	Raphael Semmes John McIntosh Kell James Dunwoody Bulloch Irvine Bulloch John Laird Sons and Company
Expeditionary Raids	Eastern Atlantic New England Gulf of Mexico South Atlantic South African Indian Ocean South Pacific
Yards & Ports of Call	Birkenhead Azores Cape Town Flores Island Corvo Island Martinique Simon's Town Cherbourg
Battles	Action off Galveston Light Battle of Cherbourg
List of ships of the Confederate States Navy