page_title: CSS Alabama's Gulf of Mexico Expeditionary Raid
hierarchical_section_title: CSS Alabama's Gulf of Mexico Expeditionary Raid
caption_attribution_description: English: From U.S. Navy public domain Photo #: NH 42372 USS Hatteras (1861-1863) -- in center In action with CSS Alabama, off Galveston, Texas, on 11 January 1863. Lithographed by A. Hoen &amp; Co., Baltimore, Md. Hatteras was sunk in this engagement. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-h/hatteras.htm
context_page_description: CSS Alabama's Gulf of Mexico Expeditionary Raid commenced shortly after the Confederate States Navy ship CSS Alabama left Bermuda and the Atlantic coast and cruised south toward the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea near the Gulf of Mexico. The raid lasted from about the middle of November 1862 to the end of January 1863.
  The primary area of operation during this expeditionary raid, was the southern seaboard of the United States starting from Dominica then ranging up along Cuba and to Galveston, Texas before finally heading south again toward Jamaica.
context_section_description: CSS Alabama's Gulf of Mexico Expeditionary Raid commenced shortly after the Confederate States Navy ship CSS Alabama left Bermuda and the Atlantic coast and cruised south toward the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea near the Gulf of Mexico. The raid lasted from about the middle of November 1862 to the end of January 1863.
  The primary area of operation during this expeditionary raid, was the southern seaboard of the United States starting from Dominica then ranging up along Cuba and to Galveston, Texas before finally heading south again toward Jamaica.
caption: CSS Alabama fighting USS Hatteras.
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