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.

Ironclad boats on fire attacking each other on a river

Courtesy of the Library of Congress

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