Two Years on the Alabama - By Arthur Sinclair, C.S.N.

CSS Alabama was a Confederate States Navy screw sloop-of-war commissioned at sea on 24 August as the cruiser Alabama. After successfully raiding the north Atlantic for Union shipping, she put in at Cape Town, (possibly giving rise to the song Daar kom die Alabama), before sailing for the East Indies, and back to Cape Town. On 19 June 1864, she was sunk by Kearsarge under Captain John A. Winslow of the Union Navy, in international waters off Cherbourg. Three chapters in the book deal with her visits to Cape Town.

Thick quarto ex-library book, published 1896 by Gay and Bird, Publishers, that has been rebound in quarter leather and marbled paper, with modern endpapers. There is a graze of 4cm x 3cm to the marbled paper covering the rear board, and several Uniondale Public Library stamps in places. 352 pages including appendix, biographical notes, A Souvenir of the Alabama, List of Officers, and a General Muster Roll, and is illustrated with 33 images of members of the crew.