but northern laborers also converted a few existing steamboats into armored vessels. The Union used this cutting-edge naval technology to attack Confederate forts at places like Tennessee’s Fort ...

As a Civil War historian who has been researching the ... to march overland toward Vicksburg and elsewhere, they depended on steamboats for supplies. The Confederates created mobile ambush squads ...

Related HDSI Episode: The Sultana Investigation It was April of 1865. The Civil War was newly ended, and steamboats were regularly traveling up the Mississippi River to take soldiers back to their ...

BY ROBIN MIMNA Among the notable figures of Enterprise history, few command attention like Harriet “Hattie” Brock. She was ...

In that June 1863 raid, Tubman used intelligence she had gathered to direct three Union Army steamboats up the Combahee River ...