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Semmes and Alabama: A Peerless Duo

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It was September 5, 1862, and Captain Abraham Osborn Jr. was having an especially good day. Two months out of Martha’s Vineyard, the rangy commander of the Yankee whaling bark Ocmulgee had just killed a huge sperm whale off the Azores. As his crew stripped the carcass of blubber, a steam-powered sloop-of-war flying the Stars …

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