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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 With No Loss Of Life -- The First Armored War Vessel Ever Downed By An Electrically Activated Mine. A Whole New Era Of Naval Warfare Had Begun. In Hardluck Ironclad Edwin Bearss Tells How He And Two Other Civil War Historians Discovered The Cairo Almost A Century Later -- Still Intact At The Bottom Of The Yazoo, Her Big Guns Loaded And Ready To Fire, Much Of The Gear Aboard Just As It Was That December Morning When The Crew Abandoned Her -- And How, Almost Miraculously, She Was Later Salvaged And Restored. - Back Cover. The Cairo Is Rediscovered -- Eads Builds The Ironclads -- The Cairo On Patrol Duty -- Action Off Plum Point -- Defeat At Memphis -- A New Captain Comes Aboard -- Rendezvous With History -- Operation Cairo Begins -- Salvaging A Civil War Ironclad -- Bits And Pieces From The Past -- Plans For The Future -- The Cairo Returns To Vicksburg. Edwin C. Bearss. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 211-213.

Author

Bearss, Edwin C.

Publisher

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807106839

Subjects

Military, Government_military

Rating

4 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14