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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 17 1 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 12 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 5 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 12.91 (search)
Cruise and combats of the Alabama. by her executive officer, John McIntosh Kell. Sailor. The Confederate cruiser Alabama was built by the Lairds, of Birour shot in action, or at exercise at general quarters, called to me and said, Mr. Kell, the enemy have fired a gun to leeward; cease firing. We were then about sever and made a due south course. We ran down to the fortieth degree Captain John McIntosh Kell, executive officer of the Alabama. from a photograph taken in Southais glass in hand, observed the effect of our shell. He called to me and said: Mr. Kell, use solid shot; our shell strike the enemy's side and fall into the water. We Alabama would not have permitted it.-J. McI. K. In the letter from which Captain Kell quotes Captain Winslow does not speak of continuing his fire. But in his dever my head were distressingly uncomfortable, to say the least. Maffitt said: Mr. Kell, take my life-preserver, sir; you are almost exhausted. The gallant boy did n
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 12.92 (search)
mile away. There was a current setting to westward three knots an hour. The action was now fairly begun. The Alabama changed from solid shot to shell. Commander Kell [see p. 608] says the Alabama began with shell.--editors. A shot from an early broadside of the Kearsarge carried away the Captain James S. Thornton, execu resting-place there was no cheer; all was silent. The yacht lowered her two boats, rescued Captain Semmes (wounded in the hand by broken iron rigging), First Lieutenant Kell, twelve officers, and twenty-six men, leaving the rest of the survivors to the two boats of the Kearsarge. Apparently aware that the forty persons he had n the United States Navy; nearly all the crew were English, Irish, and Welsh, a few of whom were said to belong to the Royal naval Reserve. Captain Semmes said, Mr. Kell, my first lieutenant, deserves great credit for the fine condition in which the ship went into action with regard to her battery, magazine, and shell-rooms ; and