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Failed Ironclads: CSS Mississippi and CSS Louisiana at New Orleans

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Dwight Hughes

In October 1861, the skeletons of two strange iron monsters began to emerge from the Mississippi bank at Jefferson City, just north of New Orleans. They would become the CSS Mississippi and CSS Louisiana. Confederate Navy Secretary Stephen Mallory had … Continue reading →

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