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By WKRG Staff
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Published: Sat, July 28, 2007 - 11:07 am
Last Updated: Wed, August 01, 2007 - 4:32 pm
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A Confederate sailor's remains recovered several years ago from a shipwreck at the bottom of the English Channel were buried today in a ceremony in Mobile.The unidentified sailor's skeletal remains were found encrusted on the underside of a cannon that was raised from the wreck of the CSS Alabama in some 200 feet of water.
The Confederate warship was sunk in the channel off the coast of France on June 19th of 1864, by the Union warship USS Kearsarge.
More than 400 artifacts have been recovered from the site by American and French divers.
Saturday's funeral procession began downtown at the site of the statue of Admiral Raphael Semmes, who was the commanding officer of the CSS Alabama, and ended at Magnolia Cemetery where the sailor was buried.
The sailor's remains were in a handmade wooden coffin pulled by a horse-drawn caisson, accompanied by members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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