War on the Water

• AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE

  

  Semmes and Alabama: A Peerless Duo

  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....