In 1862 a Confederate team torpedoed the Union's showpiece gunboat, the USS Cairo. It sank into the Yazoo River in minutes and rested there for 102 years, until it was salvaged in 1964 to become a premier exhibit at the Vicksburg National Military Park. This is the story of the USS Cairo. Using family oral history and newly examined documents found in the US National Archives, this text aims to disprove some previous theories and to correct factual errors found in earlier reports, including details of the weapon, identification of the torpedo crew, and illustrations of the five gunboats that engaged in the Yazoo battles.
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The mystery surrounding the sinking of the USS Cairo in 1862 by an underwater mine is convincingly solved by Wideman, a criminal and civil investigator. His narrative of the Confederate Secret Service's clandestine war on the Union army and navy makes absorbing reading. The exploits of Capt. Zere McDaniel and his fellow secret service agents have been recounted before, most notably in Milton Perry's Infernal Machines (1965) and Philip Van Doren Stern's Secret Missions of the Civil War (1959), but it is Wideman's description of their "MacGyver-like" ability to fashion unconventional weapons from the materials at hand that brings them so vividly to life. A testimony to Wideman's investigative skills and a fine contribution to Civil War research, this is recommended for academic libraries.
- Lawrence E. Ellis, Newberry Coll. Lib., S.C.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Lawrence E. Ellis, Newberry Coll. Lib., S.C.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Previously untold, the true story of the Union ironclad, the first man-of-war sunk in combat by a naval torpedo
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In July 1863, Zere McDaniel wrote Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America: "I am forty-two years old, a native and a citizen of the state of Kentucky, before the war a mill right by profession & practice, a vocation which my skill therein rendered very lucrative, by means whereof, I was, when the war commenced, living most easily & happily with my family in Kentucky. . . . Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
obstruction raft, torpedo operations, friction primers, torpedo crew, torpedo service, submarine batteries, glass demijohn, secret service operations, cannon powder, trigger line, wire rubber, one torpedo, galvanic cells Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mississippi River, Port Hudson, Queen of the West, Snyder's Bluff, City Point, United States, Baton Rouge, Captain Selfridge, Mound City, Red River, Barren County, Grand Lake, Jefferson Davis, New Orleans, War Department, Yazoo City, Courtesy Library of Congress, David Curry, Fort Bisland, Fort Pillow, Gabriel Raines, General Raines, George Work, Governor Pettus, Isaac Brown New!
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In July 1863, Zere McDaniel wrote Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America: "I am forty-two years old, a native and a citizen of the state of Kentucky, before the war a mill right by profession & practice, a vocation which my skill therein rendered very lucrative, by means whereof, I was, when the war commenced, living most easily & happily with my family in Kentucky. . . . Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
obstruction raft, torpedo operations, friction primers, torpedo crew, torpedo service, submarine batteries, glass demijohn, secret service operations, cannon powder, trigger line, wire rubber, one torpedo, galvanic cells Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mississippi River, Port Hudson, Queen of the West, Snyder's Bluff, City Point, United States, Baton Rouge, Captain Selfridge, Mound City, Red River, Barren County, Grand Lake, Jefferson Davis, New Orleans, War Department, Yazoo City, Courtesy Library of Congress, David Curry, Fort Bisland, Fort Pillow, Gabriel Raines, General Raines, George Work, Governor Pettus, Isaac Brown New!
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- Who Was Who in the Civil War by Stewart Sifakis on 4 pages
- Infernal Machines: The Story of Confederate Submarine and Mine Warfare by Milton F. Perry on 4 pages
- The Naval History of the Civil War by Admiral David D. Porter on 4 pages
- History of the Confederate States Navy by J. Thomas and Outlet Book Co Sharf on 4 pages
- Secret Missions of the Civil War by Philip Van Doren Stern in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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