USS Winona
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USS Winona was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for service with the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Winona was heavily armed, with large guns for duels at sea, and 24-pounder howitzers for sh
USS Winona in the Mississippi River off Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in March 1863.
Reconnaissance of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the Mississippi, by gun-boats including Winona from Farragut's Squadron
CSS Arkansas
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CSS Arkansas was the lead ship of her class of two casemate ironclads built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed in 1862, she saw combat in the Western Theater when
USS Winona
…colleagues settled into a more or less routine schedule supporting the first Vicksburg campaign and attempting to blockade the Confederate ironclad, Arkansas, in the Yazoo River. On 15 July, however, the Southern warship bested a three-gunboat expedition sent up the Yazoo River after her, disabling USS…
A drawing of C. S. S. Arkansas by R. G. Skerrett
Building the Arkansas
The timberclad Tyler
The ironclad Carondelet, circa 1862