But for reasons unknown, up to 7 feet of riverbed has been scoured away, excavating parts of the 130-foot-long ship not seen ...

During the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River. Called ironclads, these boats were about 50 yards long, carried 75 tons of armor on their hulls and decks, sported ...

To reclaim the Mississippi River during the Civil War, the Lincoln Administration contacted St. Louis businessman James B. Eads and awarded him a contract to build and equip for the navy seven ...

Eads and his workers constructed 32 gunboats used in the Civil War. His City-class gunboats were instrumental in winning battles at Fort Donelson on the Tennessee River, Island No. 10, Memphis ...

Here are 26 cities that were destroyed by war.) To determine U.S. cities and towns destroyed during the Civil War, 24/7 Tempo consulted numerous online sources including Oxford Research Encyclopedias.

The USS Saginaw, a 450 ton sidewheel wooden hulled vessel, was the first U.S. warship built on the West Coast, at the new Mare Island shipyard between 1858 and 1860, and this is an excellent ...

Fort Jackson lives on after flopping in its starring role defending New Orleans in the Civil War ... four heavily armed sloops of war, a sidewheel steamer, seven gunboats and 19 mortar schooners.

One might well wonder why an inland city was selected as the site of a Civil War naval museum. The answer is twofold. The first part involves the strategic location and industrial resources of ...

As the resulting map makes clear, combat between Union gunboats and southerners occurred across the Civil War’s western theater but was also clustered in a few important areas. My research also ...