72: Tour The USS Cairo, a Surviving Civil War Ironclad

from Boom Goes the History · host American Battlefield Trust

Vicksburg National Military Park can make a claim that no other battlefield park can . . . they have a Civil War era ironclad. The USS Cairo spent over 100 years at the bottom of the Yazoo River before being located and raised in the 1960s. Special Guest Dr. Tim Smith is with Kris White and Chris Mackowski for a tour of the famous gunboat.

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