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Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo

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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. Inside minutes the 512-ton ironclad had sunk six fathoms to the muddy bottom without a lack of life — the primary armored war vessel ever downed by an electronically activated mine. A complete new era of naval warfare had begun.In Hardluck Ironclad Edwin Bearss tells how he and two other Civil War historians found out the Cairo almost a century later — still intact on the bottom of the Yazoo, her big guns loaded and in a position to fireside, much of the gear aboard just as it used to be that December morning when the crew abandoned her — and how, almost miraculously, she used to be later salvaged and restored.

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