The Sinking of the Uss Cairo (Civil War)
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt)
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780878056170
Subjects: United States - Civil War; Naval History - Modern; Intelligence Operations; History - Military / War; History: American; Torpedoes; Military - General; American history; Civil war; Naval forces & warfare; USA; Cairo (Gunboat); Confederate States of America
First sentence: 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 &amp; practice, a vocation which my skill therein rendered very lucrative, by means whereof, I was, when the war commenced, living most easily &amp; happily with my family in Kentucky. . . .