Roll Alabama Roll - Ballad of the CSS Alabama

The C.S.S. Alabama, the Confederate navy’s most successful commerce raider of the American Civil War, was as famous in Britain as in the southern states. Known originally as merely “No. 292”, she was built under great secrecy in John Laird’s Birkenhead shipyard on the River Mersey, under the suspicious eyes of northern Federal spies. When finished in July 1862, and ostensibly undergoing sea trials as a cargo vessel, she made a run for the Azores where she was provisioned and armed as a battle cruiser. Here Captain Raphael Semmes and his Confederate officers took command of the ship and its crew, which included around 80 Liverpool seamen who signed the articles of war in expectation of prize-money and adventure. During her two-year career the Alabama took 65 United States ships, destroying 52 of them. Her luck ran out on a sunny day in 1864 when she fought the U.S.S. Kearsage and was sunk in 195 feet of water 6 miles off the French port of Cherbourg.
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[@johncolasont6195]

Beautiful Ode to the Terror of the Yankee fleet!

[@brooklynbarnett7319]

love it

[@JoeyStarley]

This is absolutely the best version of that song!

[@jamestregler1584]

Hope too visit and pray over there Graves in England 😇

[@JBurdoo]

This is the Cumberland Three version from the '60s, who I first learned it from.

[@taylorcasale680]

I’ve never heard this song before. Epic

[@Damon-p9u]

Oh, I just love the Confederacy.

[@Punisherfan123]

Are you on any other websites? I can't find half of your old music videos on youtube.

[@AlexanderMcRae]

They’re back, just for history though