During the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River. Called ironclads, these boats were about 50 yards long, carried 75 tons of armor on their hulls and decks, sported up ...

The USS Westfield Exhibit will be dedicated at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 2, at the Texas City Museum, 409 6th St. North, Texas City. Throughout the day the museum will be open to the public at no cost ...

My grandmother had a saying, "Sometimes big things come in small packages." I believe this applies to Mound City, Illinois, when it comes to its impact on helping the Union Army win the Civil War. To ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The St. Louis Bridge under construction over the Mississippi River downtown. James B. Eads built the steel-and-stone bridge, ...

A clever trick by a vastly outnumbered Wayne County regiment in the Civil War opened the way for the North to win an important victory that would ultimately make a difference in the war’s outcome. The ...

A volume in the series “New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology”, A Civil War Gunboat is an excellent ‘biography” of Saginaw, a 450 ton side-wheel wooden hulled gunboat, the ...

Justin Parkoff and Jessica Stika, archeological conservators at the Texas A & M University Conservation Research Lab, will present the program on the conservation of the Civil War gunboat USS ...

The USS Cairo pulls up to the banks of the Mississippi River in 1862. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command During the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River. Called ...

A crane lifts the armored pilot house of the Union gunboat USS Cairo from the Yazoo River on Sept. 15, 1960, after rediscovery of the wreck. The Cairo was sunk on Dec. 12, 1862, by a Confederate mine ...

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. Pp. xiv, 361. Illus., maps, plans, notes, biblio., index. $69.95. ISBN: 0813035163 The USS Saginaw, a 450 ton ...

(THE CONVERSATION) During the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River. Called ironclads, these boats were about 50 yards long, carried 75 tons of armor on their hulls and ...