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Hardluck ironclad: The sinking and salvage of the Cairo

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Two Book in One|By TMD|This book, really two books in one, is the history of the USS Cairo one of seven City Class Ironclad River Gunboats built between August 1861 and Jan 1862 in Illinois and Missouri. It is also an excellent history of the battles of the river fleet up and until the Cairo was sunk by an electric torpedo, now considered an underwater mine. The ship went down|About the Author||

|Edwin C. Bearss is a research historian with the National Park Service and winner of the Harry S. Truman Award and the Nevins-Freeman Award for significant contributions to Civil War scholarship.

On the morning of December 12, 1862, the Union gunboat Cairo, nosing her way up the Yazoo River north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, triggered two Confederate demijohn mines. Within minutes the 512-ton ironclad had sunk six fathoms to the muddy bottom with no loss of life -- the first armored war vessel ever downed by an electronically activated mine. A whole new era of naval warfare had begun.

In Hardluck Ironclad Edwin Bearss tells how he and two other Civil War histo...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Hardluck ironclad: The sinking and salvage of the Cairo   |  Edwin C Bearss.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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