The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama

Project Gutenberg's The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama, by A. K. Browne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama Author: A. K. Browne Release Date: October 6, 2008 [EBook #26783] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KEARSARGE AND ALABAMA *** Produced by Carla Foust and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's note A few obvious typographical errors have been corrected, and they are indicated with a mouse-hover and are listed at the end of this book. THE STORY OF THE KEARSARGE AND ALABAMA. SAN FRANCISCO: HENRY PAYOT & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1868. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the District of California. EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., PRINTERS. 517 Clay Street, San Francisco. The Author is induced to publish this narrative of the Kearsarge and Alabama, from the want that exists of a popular, detailed, and yet concise account of the engagement between the two vessels. [3]THE STORY. On Sunday, June 12th, 1864, the U. S.