U.S.S. Cairo / The Story of a Civil War Gunboat (eBook, PDF)

U.S.S. Cairo / The Story of a Civil War Gunboat (eBook, PDF)

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comprising  A Narrative of Her Wartime Adventures  by Virgil Carrington Jones  and  An Account of Her Raising in 1964  by Harold L. Peterson The U.S.S. Cairo was sunk in the Yazoo River by a Confederate torpedo in December 1862. A century later, she was raised and salvaged along with thousands of priceless artifacts. The boat, currently owned by the State of Mississippi, is now at Pascagoula, Miss., awaiting reconstruction.  The artifacts, through an agreement with the State of Mississippi and the Warren County (Miss.) Board of Supervisors, have been entrusted to ...