Hardluck Ironclad; The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo by Edwin C. Bearss - 1966

Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University P. Fine copy. 1980. Revised ed.. softcover. 8vo, 222 pp. .

Louisiana State University Press. LSU Press 1980, Paperback. Previous owner name on full title page. Book Condition: Good . 1980. TRADE PAPERBACK.

Paperback. Very good. Louisiana State University, 1980, 222 pages, a nice trade paperback, no underlining or owner's mark, light wear.

LSU Press, 1980-06-01. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. Later printing. Text and images unmarked. The wrapper has a few scratches on the back cover. 8vo. xiii, 222pp.

LSU Press, 1980-06-01. Paperback. Very Good. Signed & inscribed by author to previous owner on title page, trade softbound, later printing, pages have a slight waviness at top margin- reads fine, a few pages creased at top corner.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. 1993 5th printing of 1980 revised edition. Wrappers lightly rubbed. xiii, [1], 222 pp. Black-and-white photographs. On the morning of December 12, 1862, the Union gunboat Cairo, nosing her way up the Yazoo River north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, triggered two Confederate demijohn mines. Within minutes the 512-ton ironclad had sunk six fathoms to the muddy bottom with no loss of life -- the first armored war vessel ever downed by an electronically activated mine. A whole new era of naval warfare had begun.In Hardluck Ironclad Edwin Bearss tells how he and two other Civil War historians discovered the Cairo almost a century later -- still intact at the bottom of the Yazoo, her big guns loaded and ready to fire, much of the gear aboard just as it was that December morning when the crew abandoned her -- and how, almost miraculously, she was later salvaged and restored.