The Confederate Ram "Neuse"

[Derek_Burress]

From "Carolina & The Southern Cross." Article on Confederate Ram Neuse.

 

[RedRover]

I highly recommend the book "CSS Neuse: A Question of Iron and Time."

 

[Stryker65]

That was the ironclad that was blown up after the battle of Wise's Forks, wasn't it?

 

[RedRover]

That was the ironclad that was blown up after the battle of Wise's Forks, wasn't it?

Yes, but it wasn't blown up. Just set fire and scuttled.

Salvors commenced trying to raise and preserve it in 1961...

Destruction of the Neuse | NC Historic Sites

An Account from the New York Herald Thursday, March 23, 1865 Our Kinston Correspondence. Kinston, N.C., March 17, 1865 Particulars of the Occupation of

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When the salvage of the wreck commenced it was found in remarkable condition, with the casemate and deck timbering yet in place.

1.1K views · 33 reactions | Salvaging the CSS Neuse | On October 27, 1961, Henry Casey, Lemuel Houston, and Thomas Carlyle began serious efforts to salvage the remains of the ironclad CSS Neuse from the... | By North Carolina Historic Sites | Faceboo

On October 27, 1961, Henry Casey, Lemuel Houston, and Thomas Carlyle began serious efforts to salvage the remains of the ironclad CSS Neuse from the...

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But the salvors' effort ran out of funding, and the wreck was abandoned to the elements for a time...

Subsequently seriously smashed up in a storm and flood. By the time authorities stepped in, nothing remained but the lower hull.

 

[Pollaco]

I
I liked the story of the cannonball being used as an android though I'm puzzled why it did not explode the very first time it was used.

 

[USS ALASKA]

The Development of Confederate Ship Construction : An Archaeological and Historical Investigation of Confederate Ironclads Neuse and Jackson

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Reading through the papers located by @USS ALASKA prompts me to again suggest the US Navy won the US Civil War. Well... it's not like the U.S. Navy won the war alone. Time and again, combinations of arms were found to be advantageous, such as the cavalry-and-light-gunboat tactics employed...

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North Carolina Material Culture: An Analysis of the Excavation Conservation and Display of the Confederate Ironclad CSS Neuse

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JOURNAL ARTICLE Blue Water, Brown Water, and Confederate Disloyalty: The Peculiar and Personal Naval Conflict in South Florida during the Civil War Irvin D. S. Winsboro and William B. Mack The Florida Historical Quarterly Vol. 90, No. 1 (Summer 2011), pp. 34-60 (27 pages) Florida Historical...

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Postmortem Archaeology: Reinterpreting Salvaged Sites using the CSS Neuse as a Case Study

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NAVAL SHIPBUILDING ON THE JAMES...JUST NOT AT NEWPORT NEWS! Bill Lee April 2013 Before Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) became the premiere builder of naval vessels for this country, two very short-lived shipbuilding enterprises located 75 miles upstream from Newport News constructed warships...

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