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Union gunboats didn't just attack rebel military sites – they went after civilian property, too

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 up ...
The National Interest

Union Gunboats Attacked Rebel Forts – and Civilian Property, Too

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 up ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

150 years ago, a brief Civil War truce for burial

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La.ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. — For a brief time during the Civil War, hostilities at St. Francisville stilled while Masons from the Union Navy and Confederate Army buried one of their ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Civil War at 150: Union contingent pounded in Smithfield

Harassing fire was nothing new for the Union gunboats that patrolled Hampton Roads during the Civil War. More than one Yankee sailor felt the sting of a rebel rifle fired from the shore, and — despite ...
The New York Times

Burning of a Union Gunboat at Cairo Narrow Escape of a Portion of the Crew Loss About Fifty Thousand Dollars.

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ...
The Advocate

Port Hudson museum gets model of Civil War-era gunboat

PORT HUDSON — Port Hudson State Historic Site is adding a 1:32 scale model of the Union gunboat USS Essex that served during the Civil War to its exhibits collection. The model was created and donated ...
Houston Chronicle

Battle of Galveston saved Texas from Union invasion

GALVESTON – Two outgunned and outnumbered Confederate gunboats surprised a Union flotilla guarding Galveston Harbor 150 years ago on New Year's Day in an attempt to recapture Galveston Island. In the ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Oct. 12 • The USS St. Louis, a Civil War gunboat, is launched

A drawing of Eads gunboats and other Union riverboats bombarding Island No. 10 on April 7, 1862, one day before the Confederate defenses surrendered. Island No. 10 was on a wide bend of the river ...
DC Military

Remembering the pilot of the ill-fated Civil War gunboat USS Tulip

Wallace Jackson and his extended family have a personal connection to USS Tulip, the Civil War Union gunboat that exploded Nov. 11, 1864 offshore from what is now Webster Outlying Field. Jackson’s ...
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Union gunboats didn’t just attack rebel military sites – they went after civilian property, too

The USS Cairo pulls up to the banks of the Mississippi River in 1862. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command During the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River. Called ...
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Union gunboats didn’t just attack rebel military sites – they went after civilian property, too

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...