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Vicksburg National Military Park preserves USS Cairo

VICKSBURG, Miss. (WJTV) – One of the Civil War’s rarest surviving artifacts is preserved at the Vicksburg National Military ...
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Fungal secrets of a sunken ship: Advanced decay found throughout USS Cairo despite past wood preservation efforts

University of Minnesota researchers studied the microbial degradation of the USS Cairo, one of the first ironclad and steam-powered gunboats used in the United States Civil War. Studies of microbial ...
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U.S.S. Cairo; the story of a Civil War gunboat comprising a narrative of her wartime adventures by Virgil Carrington Jones and an account of her raising in 1964 by Harold L ...

U.S.S. Cairo; the story of a Civil War gunboat comprising a narrative of her wartime adventures by Virgil Carrington Jones and an account of her raising in 1964 by Harold L. Peterson ...
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Union gunboats didn’t just attack rebel military sites – they went after civilian property, too

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Cairo pulls up to the banks of the Mississippi River in 1862. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command During the American ...