The CSS Alabama – Today In Southern History
29 July 1862
On this date in 1862…
The most successful warship in American history, the C.S.S.Alabama, was secretly launched at Birkenhead in Cheshire, England.
Other Years:
1847 – Cumberland School of Law was founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, one of only 15 law schools exist in the United States at that time.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., federal troops dispersed the last of the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans.
1940 – John Sigmund of St. Louis, MO, completed a 292-mile swim down the Mississippi River.
1985 – General Motors announced its new Saturn automobile assembly plant would be located in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
The Captain of the Alabama was Raphael Semmes from Charles County, Maryland.