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

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 ...

On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South Carolina, on three gunboats. They sailed in stealth up the Coosaw River until ...

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 ...

When Doug Unsold’s boat comes in, he builds it himself. The 67-year-old retired Waterford resident builds scale models of ...

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 ...

Horace Safford Brown’s monitor, the USS Nahant, saw action for the first time on March 3, 1863. Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont ordered the South Atlantic Fleet’s newest ironclads to ...

Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.

Black women’s leadership in the military dates to the Civil War. ... On June 2, 1863, Tubman led 150 Black Union soldiers from the Second South Carolina Volunteers on three Union gunboats.