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Into the Volcano with the Ironclad CSS Arkansas

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Dwight Hughes

Part I of this tale left the lonely Arkansas and Captain Isaac N. Brown on July 15, 1862, facing a gauntlet of Yankee deep-water warships, steam rams, river ironclads, gunboats, and bomb vessels as he ran down the Mississippi toward Vicksburg. … Continue reading →

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Down the Yazoo with the Ironclad CSS Arkansas

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Dwight Hughes

Running downriver with the surging Mississippi in the CSS Arkansas on July 15, 1862, Captain Isaac N. Brown peered through the morning mist and saw: “A forest of masts and smoke-stacks—ships, rams, iron-clads, and other gun-boats on the left side, … Continue reading →

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