Thanks to Ted Bowling for these images… he writes:
“Hi James:
Had the opportunity to attend the internment services in Mobile for the unknown sailor recently recovered from the wreck of the CSS Alabama (off Cherbourg, France). It is being explored by a joint US/French team. The Alabama was sunk during the Civil War by the USS Kearsage. They really did a great job with the funeral this afternoon considering the heat. The reenactors marched down Government Street for two miles in these wool uniforms before arriving at Magnolia Cemetery. There were plenty of medical personnel on hand to deal with heat injuries. It has been over a decade since I had been to Mobile and I had forgotten how beautiful those oaks are as they arch out over Government Street.”
