Description
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.
Author: Myron J. Smith
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 08/16/2011
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780786447268
ISBN10: 0786447265
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Military | Naval
- History | Military | United States
About the Author
Prolific author Myron J. Smith, Jr., is emeritus library director and professor at Tusculum University, Greeneville, Tennessee.