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 Confederate Ironclad 1861-65 Every aspect of Confederate ironclads is covered:
design, construction, armor, armament, life on board, strategy, tactics, and actual combat actions.
Naval Battle in Tennessee
Fort Pillow and Memphis
Civil War Navy
May and June 1862
Battle of Fort Pillow, First position
Engraving published in Rear Admiral Henry Walke's "Naval Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War in the United States ..." (1877)
depicting the action between the Confederate River Defense Fleet and Federal ironclads near Fort Pillow, Tennessee, 10 May 1862.
Confederate ships, seen
at right, include (from left to right): General Earl Van Dorn, General Sterling Price , CSS General Bragg , CSS General Sumter and Little Rebel . The Federal ironclads, in the center and left, are (from left to right): Mound City , Carondelet and Cincinnati .
A Federal mortar boat is by the river bank in the lower right.
Battle of Fort Pillow, 3rd Position
depicting the action between the Confederate River Defense Fleet and Federal ironclads near Fort Pillow, Tennessee, 10 May 1862.
Confederate ships, seen at left, include: Colonel Lovell , General Beauregard ,
General M. Jeff Thompson , General Bragg , General Sumter , Little Rebel and General Earl van Dorn . The Federal ironclads, in the center and right, are: Carondelet , Cincinnati , Mound City , Benton , Saint Louis , Cairo and Pittsburg . A tug is seen in the right foreground.
"The Total Annihilation of the Rebel Fleet by the Federal Fleet under Commodore Davis."
"On the Morning of June 6th 1862, off Memphis, Ten."
Lithograph by Middleton, Strobridge & Co.
In the foreground, the print depicts the Confederate ships (from left to right): General M. Jeff Thompson (shown sinking); Little Rebel (shown burning); General Sterling Price ; General Beauregard (shown being rammed by the Ellet Ram Monarch ); General Bragg (shown aground) and
Colonel Lovell (shown sinking). In the background are the Federal warships (from left to right): Queen of the West ; Cairo ; Carondelet ; Louisville ; Saint Louis ; a tug; and Benton .
The city of Memphis is in the right distance, with a wharf boat by the shore.
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