A book I purchased recently, Hardluck Ironclad, by Edwin C. Bearss, a distinguished Civil War historian, was written in 1966 and detailed the history of the Union gunboat Cairo that was sunk during the Civil War, and his ultimately successful efforts to begin to raise her from the Yazoo River. The video above covers this effort.
The centennial observation of the Civil War began an effort across the nation to recover our Civil War past, and the recovery of portions of the Cairo is a prime example of the successes and limitations of that effort. (more…)
Donald R. McClarey
Paul Zummo
