The CSS Arkansas
Subtitle: a Confederate ironclad on western waters
By: Myron J. Smith, Jr
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780786447268
Subjects: Confederate Naval operations; Arkansas (Confederate ram); History
Description: "The makeshift CSS Arkansas, completed by Lt. Isaac Newton Brown and manned by a mixed crew of volunteers, gave the South a surge of confidence when it launched in 1862. The saga of the CSS Arkansas represents the last significant Confederate naval activity in the war's Western theater"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: The upper river ironclads; title: A frustrating start, August-December 1861; title: From Memphis to Yazoo City, January-May 1862; title: Five weeks up the Yazoo, early May-late June 1862; title: Descending the Yazoo, June 25-July 15, 1862; title: Morning (part I), July 15, 1862: dawn fight in the Yazoo; title: Morning (part II), July 15, 1862: running the gauntlet; title: Surviving Farragut's charge: night, July 15, 1862; title: Arkansas vs. Essex, round one: July 16-22, 1862; title: Arkansas vs. Essex, round two: finale off Baton Rouge, July 23-August 6, 1862.