The CSS Arkansas

A Confederate Ironclad on Western Waters

Myron J. Smith Jr. (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2011
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-4726-8 (ISBN)

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While the Monitor and Merrimack are the most famous of the Civil War ironclads, the Confederacy had another ship in its flotilla that carried high hopes and a metal hull. The makeshift CSS Arkansas, completed by Lt. Isaac Newton Brown and manned by a mixed crew of volunteers, gave the South a surge of confidence when it launched in 1862. For 28 days of summer, the ship engaged in five battles with Union warships, falling victim in the end only to her own primitive engines. The saga of the CSS Arkansas represents the last significant Rebel naval activity in the war's Western theater.

Prolific author Myron J. Smith, Jr., is emeritus library director and professor at Tusculum University, Greeneville, Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments      viii

Foreword by George Wright

Introduction

1. Beginnings

2. The Upper River Ironclads

3. A Frustrating Start, August–December 1861

4. From Memphis to Yazoo City, January–May 1862

5. Five Weeks Up the Yazoo, Early May–Late June 1862

6. Descending the Yazoo, June 25–July 15, 1862

7. Morning (Part I), July 15, 1862: Dawn Fight in the Yazoo

8. Morning (Part II), July 15, 1862: Running the Gauntlet

9. Surviving Farragut’s Charge: Night, July 15, 1862

10. Arkansas vs. Essex, Round One: July 16–22, 1862

11. Arkansas vs. Essex, Round Two: Finale Off Baton Rouge, July 23–August 6, 1862

Epilogue

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo	101 photos, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	0-7864-4726-5 / 0786447265
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-4726-8 / 9780786447268
Zustand	Neuware