CSS Alabama

CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, United Kingdom, in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Company. Alabama served as a commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never laid anchor in a Southern port.

CSS Alabama in The Guns of the South
In The Guns of the South CSS Alabama was not sunked. Washington, D.C. fell to the Army of Northern Virginia in 1864 and the word of Union capitulation reached Cherbourg before Alabama's battle with USS Kearsarge. Later, on the request by general Robert E. Lee, Alabama was assigned on anti-slavery patrol off the west African coast.