CSS Arkansas

Hand-colored lithograph depicting the skuttling and burning of the Confederate ram CSS Arkansas on the Mississippi River, near Baton Rouge; August 1862.

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Courtesy of the Library of Congress

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Civil War through Reconstruction (1861 - 1874)

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Event

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