The CSS Alabama's South Atlantic Expeditionary Raid commenced shortly after the CSS Alabama

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 anchored in...

 left Haiti

Haiti

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 and the Caribbean Sea

Caribbean Sea

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 and cruised south toward Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

 in the south Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

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. 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

Expeditionary warfare

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, was the Atlantic seaboard of South America

South America

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 starting from the northern end of Brazil

Brazil

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 then ranging up down along the Brazilian coast before finally heading east toward southernAfrica

Africa

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Raid overview

The CSS Alabama worked its way slowly down the east coast of Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

 in the most devastating of its seven raids, capturing or burning dozens of enemy Yankee

Yankee

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 vessels.

From this raiding area off the coast of Brazil, the CSS Alabama made her way into the Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

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 by way of the Cape of Good Hope

Cape of Good Hope

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 to continue her unhindered wrecking of enemy commerce in the Indian Ocean as far as Indonesia

Indonesia

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Raid bounty

CSS Alabama's South Atlantic Expeditionary Raid

Date	Ship Name	Ship Type	Location	Disposition of Ship
February 3, 1863	Palmetto	?	?	Burned
February 21, 1863	Olive Jane	?	mid-Atlantic	Burned
February 21, 1863	Golden Eagle	?	mid-Atlantic	Burned
February 27, 1863	Washington	?	mid-Atlantic	Captured & let go
March 1, 1863	Bethia Thayer	?	?	?
March 2, 1863	John A. Parks	?	?	Captured
March 15, 1863	Punjab	?	?	Captured
March 23, 1863	Charles Hill	?	?	Captured
March 23, 1863	Morning Star	Boston clipper	Near St. Paul	Captured & let go
March 23, 1863	Nora	?	?	Captured
March 26, 1863	King Fisher	?	?	?
April 3, 1863	Louisa Hatch	?	?	Captured
April 15, 1863	Lafayette	?	?	Captured
April 15, 1863	Kate Cory	Schooner converted to Brig	?	Captured/Burned
April 16, 1863	Lafayette	?	?	?
April 22, 1863	Nye	?	?	Captured
April 23, 1863	Dorcas Prince	?	?	Captured
May 3, 1863	Union Jack	?	?	Captured
May 3, 1863	Sea Lareta	?	?	Captured
May 25, 1863	Gildersleeve	?	?	Captured
May 25, 1863	Justina	?	?	Captured
May 29, 1863	Jabez Snow	?	?	Captured
June 2, 1863	Amazonian	?	?	Burned
June 4, 1863	Azzapodi	?	?	Captured
June 4, 1863	Queen of Beauty	?	?	Captured
June 5, 1863	Talisman	medium Clipper	?	Burned
June 20, 1863	Conrad	Bark	coast of Brazil	commissioned as Tuscaloosa
July 1, 1863	Anna F. Schmidt	?	?	Burned
July 6, 1863	Express	?	?	?