The 1912 caption for this image reads: "Confederate Ram Albermarle - launched April 18, 1864 - sank the Union Southfield, seen captured here in Federal hands after downed by Cushing." CSS Albemarle (constructed 1863) was a steam-powered ironclad gunboat ram of the Confederate Navy, named for an estuary in North Carolina which was named for General George Monck, the first Duke of Albemarle and one of the original Carolina Lords It was sunk in 1864.

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