2000, ISBN: 9780807106846

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Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 2000. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 236 pp. with Index, Bibliography and Notes. Illus. with B&W photo… Mehr…

Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 2000. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 236 pp. with Index, Bibliography and Notes. Illus. with B&W photos. Spine slanted; jacket edges worn. Text clean, no tears., Burd Street Press, 2000, 2.5, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. 1993 5th printing of 1980 revised edition. Wrappers lightly rubbed. xiii, [1], 222 pp. Black-and-white photographs. On the morning of December 12, 1862, the Union gunboat Cairo, nosing her way up the Yazoo River north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, triggered two Confederate demijohn mines. Within minutes the 512-ton ironclad had sunk six fathoms to the muddy bottom with no loss of life -- the first armored war vessel ever downed by an electronically activated mine. A whole new era of naval warfare had begun.In Hardluck Ironclad Edwin Bearss tells how he and two other Civil War historians discovered the Cairo almost a century later -- still intact at the bottom of the Yazoo, her big guns loaded and ready to fire, much of the gear aboard just as it was that December morning when the crew abandoned her -- and how, almost miraculously, she was later salvaged and restored., Louisiana State University Press, 1980, 3<

1980, ISBN: 9780807106846

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. Very Good. 1980. Trade Paperback. 222 pages. On the morning of December 12, 1862, the Union gunboat Cairo, nosing her way up the Yazoo … Mehr…

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. Very Good. 1980. Trade Paperback. 222 pages. On the morning of December 12, 1862, the Union gunboat Cairo, nosing her way up the Yazoo River north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, triggered two Confederate demijohn mines. Within minutes the 512-ton ironclad had sunk six fathoms to the muddy bottom with no loss of life -- the first armored war vessel ever downed by an electronically activated mine. A whole new era of naval warfare had begun. In Hardluck Ironclad Edwin Bearss tells how he and two other Civil War historians discovered the Cairo almost a century later -- still intact at the bottom of the Yazoo, her big guns loaded and ready to fire, much of the gear aboard just as it was that December morning when the crew abandoned her -- and how, almost miraculously, she was later salvaged and restored ., Louisiana State University Press, 1980, 3<

1980, ISBN: 9780807106846

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Louisiana State Univ., 1980., 1980. Rev. ed. 222p. Maps. Photos. Large wraps. SIGNED & inscribed. Fine Copy. Signed by Author. Large Paperback. Fine., Louisiana State Univ., 1980., 19… Mehr…

Louisiana State Univ., 1980., 1980. Rev. ed. 222p. Maps. Photos. Large wraps. SIGNED & inscribed. Fine Copy. Signed by Author. Large Paperback. Fine., Louisiana State Univ., 1980., 1980, 5<