Title: The CSS Arkansas
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.
Subjects: Confederate Naval operations, Arkansas (Confederate ram), History, Arkansas, Mississippi river valley, history, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, naval operations
Places: Mississippi River Valley, United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865