Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo by Edwin C. Bearss

Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo

Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo

Edwin C. Bearss

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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...

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