-Dedicated to Civil War episodes, battles, people and ships
that also appear in GMT’s Rebel Raiders
on the High Seas, my next game.
April 15, 1863
Historical Event: “Captain, there be
whales here!” On this date in 1863 the
Confederate raider CSS Alabama
captured two Union whalers off the Brazilian island of Fernando de Norohna. Over the course of the war Captain Raphael
Semmes almost single-handedly destroyed the American whaling fleet, doing great
commercial damage to the Union and New England in particular.
Game Connection: The Alabama
is not only on the cover of the game but also is a counter and card
(Confederate card 63, as depicted below).
Hunting whalers is also what raiders like Alabama do best – and there is even a separate special zone on the
map for such activities.
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