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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Confederate Sailor Buried in Ala.[/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Sunday July 29, 2007 1:16 AM[/FONT] [FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - The remains of a Confederate sailor, recovered several years ago from a shipwreck at the bottom of the English Channel, were buried Saturday in a handmade wooden coffin pulled by a horse-drawn caisson.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The unidentified sailor's skeletal remains were found on the underside of a cannon raised from the wreck of the CSS Alabama in about 200 feet of water.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The Confederate warship was sunk in the channel off the coast of France on June 19, 1864, by the Union warship USS Kearsarge. More than 400 artifacts have been recovered from the site by American and French divers.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The CSS Alabama had a crew of about 120 members, and most were rescued by boaters in the area, but about a dozen drowned or were never heard from again, said Robert Edington, a Mobile attorney and president of the CSS Alabama Association.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Saturday's funeral procession began downtown at the site of the statue of Adm. Raphael Semmes, who was the commanding officer of the CSS Alabama, and ended at Magnolia Cemetery where the sailor was buried.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The sailor's coffin was accompanied by members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The group, which was holding its annual convention in Mobile, arranged the funeral with the support of heritage groups and individuals.
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[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Sunday July 29, 2007 1:16 AM[/FONT] [FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - The remains of a Confederate sailor, recovered several years ago from a shipwreck at the bottom of the English Channel, were buried Saturday in a handmade wooden coffin pulled by a horse-drawn caisson.[/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The unidentified sailor's skeletal remains were found on the underside of a cannon raised from the wreck of the CSS Alabama in about 200 feet of water.[/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The Confederate warship was sunk in the channel off the coast of France on June 19, 1864, by the Union warship USS Kearsarge. More than 400 artifacts have been recovered from the site by American and French divers.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The CSS Alabama had a crew of about 120 members, and most were rescued by boaters in the area, but about a dozen drowned or were never heard from again, said Robert Edington, a Mobile attorney and president of the CSS Alabama Association.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Saturday's funeral procession began downtown at the site of the statue of Adm. Raphael Semmes, who was the commanding officer of the CSS Alabama, and ended at Magnolia Cemetery where the sailor was buried.[/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The sailor's coffin was accompanied by members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The group, which was holding its annual convention in Mobile, arranged the funeral with the support of heritage groups and individuals.
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