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Bookmark or Share- CSS Mobile Ironclad | Naval War - At Sea & Along Inland WaterwaysDesign; I. N. Brown. Builder: I. N. Brown, Yazoo City Navy Yard Conversion started late 1862, not completed Ordered to Yazoo City to be converted to a two- gun casemate ironclad. However, it is more likely that I. N. Brown would have converted her to his Eastport plan for speed and ease of construction and to use the materials at hand.
- Confederate ironclads: started but not finishedIn Chris E. Fonvielle's recent To Forge a Thunderbolt: Fort Anderson and the Battle for Wilmington (NC Starburst Press, 2015), he indicates that Wilmington was being constructed at the "Confederate Navy Yard" on Eagles Island across from Wilmington (p. 109); elsewhere, he notes that the "Confederate Navy Yard" was a nickname or alternate name for Benjamin W. and William L. Beery's shipyard ...
- This date 1865 with the Army of TennesseeWASHINGTON, D. C., January 21, 1865. (Received 29th.) - Maj. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN, Commanding Military Division of the Mississippi: When Hood had crossed the Tennessee, and those in pursuit had reached it, Thomas had not much more than half crossed the State, from whence he returned to Nashville to take steamer for Eastport.
- History of the 2nd Mississippi Infantry RegimentStone had been a clerk in the mercantile establishment of Colonel Price, the largest landowner and merchant in Eastport, Mississippi, on the Tennessee River. Eastport at that time was the home of wealth and culture, the head of all year navigation on the Tennessee River, and freight from all points for east Mississippi and west Alabama came to ...
- ME - Eastern Cemetery, Portland Maine | Civil War Cemeteries: Where ...Sabine Emery February 8, 1834 – March 24, 1868 Born in Searsport, Maine' Sabine Emery was a resident of Eastport, Maine when he enlisted in the Union Army. He mustered in as Captain of Company A of the 9th Maine Infantry Regiment in September of 1861 at Augusta, Maine.
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