Canonicus-class monitor
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The Canonicus-class or Tippecanoe-class was a class of nine monitors built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. An improvement on the preceding Passaics, modified in accordance with war e
Mahopac on the Appomattox River, 1864
USS Tecumseh (1863)
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USS Tecumseh was a Canonicus-class monitor built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Although intended for forthcoming operations against Confederate fortifications guarding Mobi
Canonicus-class monitor
…Campaign, the Battle of Mobile Bay and the First and Second Battles of Fort Fisher. When attacking the ironclad ram CSS Tennessee in 1865, the monitor Tecumseh was sunk by a naval mine, then termed a "torpedo", 94 men died. Eight of the suspected conspirators for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln were…
Tecumseh strikes a mine and sinks
Tecumseh sinking at the Battle of Mobile Bay after striking a "torpedoe"