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Vicksburg National Military ParkBrigadier General Martin E. Green
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Vicksburg National Military Park
USS Cairo Gunboat
USS Cairo Gunboat

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USS Cairo Gunboat

USS Cairo

Ironclad River Gunboat: City Class

Commissioned: January 16, 1862

Torpedoed and Sunk: December 12, 1862

Raised: December 12, 1964
 
Explosion Sinks the USS Cairo

100 Years on the Bottom

Armor — Iron Plating on the USS Cairo

Thirteen BIG Guns

Capstan

Fire Tube Boilers

Paddlewheel
Did You Know?  

Did You Know?
The civilians of Vicksburg endured their first naval bombardment of the Civil War during the summer of 1862?

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