拉里贝尔特，“卷，阿拉巴马州，滚动！“2012年6月22日。教育视频，2:00。https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ydhi1g9ryk。
CSS.阿拉巴马州由拉斐尔Semmes船长吩咐,花了nearly two years capturing and destroying 65 Northern merchant ships and whalers. There were seven different expeditionary raids from the Eastern Atlantic to the Java Sea and back near where the vessel had been built. The commerce raider had become legendary and captured the imagination of most of the world. Many, however, considered Semmes and his ship piratical and it had to be destroyed.
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这阿拉巴马州1863年7月下旬抵达南非开普敦，以戏剧性的方式。巡洋舰抓住了树皮海新娘在开普敦的景区内。SEMMES将该商家和它的货物卖给了南非公民。截至1863年9月24日，Semmes在1863年12月21日在印度洋上占据了印度洋，沉没了几家船只，他在那里观看了20多艘北方商船在锚地腐烂失业的北方商船。他知道他的船和其他同盟商务袭击者在扰乱美国航运方面非常成功。[1]
