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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads: The USS Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia

Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads: The USS Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia

Smith, Myron J.

Paperback

Historical FiguresCivil War Period (1850-1877)Naval History

ISBN10: 0786495766
ISBN13: 9780786495764
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: May 2 2017
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

A Scottish immigrant to Illinois, Joseph Brown made his pre-Civil War fortune as a miller and steamboat captain who dabbled in riverboat design and the politics of small towns. When war erupted, he used his connections (including a friendship with Abraham Lincoln) to obtain contracts to build three ironclad gunboats for the U.S. War Department--the Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia. Often described as failures, these vessels were active in some of the most ferdocuments the life and career of Joseph Brown, a miller and steamboat captain who built three ironclad gunboats for the US War Departmentocious river fighting of the 1863 Vicksburg campaign. After the war, Captain Joe became a railroad executive and was elected mayor of St. Louis. This book covers his life and career, as well as the construction and operational histories of his controversial trio of warships.

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