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1) This document summarizes a court case regarding ownership of the bell from the Confederate ship CSS Alabama. The US claimed ownership of the bell after it was sunk off the coast of France in 1864 by the Union ship Kearsarge. 2) Richard Steinmetz purchased the bell in 1979 after it was recovered by a diver in 1936. In 1990, when Steinmetz attempted to auction the bell, the US Navy asserted it was US property. The district court agreed, finding the bell became US property either through capture after the

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