Exploring A Civil War Gunboat
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USS Cairo was the lead ship of the City-class gunboats and named for Cairo, Illinois. In June 1862, she captured the Confederate garrison of Fort Pillow on the Mississippi, enabling Union forces to occupy Memphis. As part of the Yazoo Pass Expedition, she was sunk on 12 December 1862, while clearing mines for the attack on Haines Bluff. Cairo was the first ship ever to be sunk by a mine remotely detonated by hand.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all are having a great day!
Happy Thanksgiving, Chris. This is fascinating. We learned about these ships back in junior high school. Back when schools still taught history.
Happy T-Day to you as well. This was so fascinating. I knew they had gun boats back then, but had no idea what they looked like. Thank you for yet another educational video. Will you remember us when the Discovery Channel hires you full time?
Happy Thanksgiving to you. Thanks for the videos.
Been there a couple of times. The museum is awesome also.and.....it’s free
For those on the east coast, In downtown Kinston NC, there is a reconstruction of the CSS Neuse to scale.
Not bad. She's come a long way. My father was primary diver and first to touch her, and I was present to witness the intact raising of the pilot house. As it turned out, the first/best location to view the smaller items brought up each day seemed to be my father's home in Bolton. So, piece by piece over months, home became a very crowded and amazing first-hand collection of pristine history. Every day, if possible, my father and others including Ed Bearss, author, historian and story-teller extraordinaire and representative of the National Park Service, would view the latest find over sour-mash in the kitchen. I was under the table. Much of that displayed in the Cairo museum, at one time, adorned every corner of the house, evolving over the years of my childhood until eventually finding home with the Park Service. Photographs in the original frames, letters and diaries, all manner of personal items including firearms, and several stands of 32-pounder artillery projectiles. The salvage operation commenced under primitive conditions. There were few roads and they were muddy. And it was dangerous, claiming at least one man to drowning. The first real attempt to raise the ship in once piece involved 3 cables positioned under the hull and only cut the mud laden hulk into pieces. The bits were eventually moved to Pascagoula, to begin rehab. 55 years ago.
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Very interesting. I bet your dad had some great stories! Thanks for sharing that with us.
Ed Bearss is the freakin' man. God rest his soul. So cool that someone so close to this project came across this video. What a fabulous and fortuitous venture the raising of this vessel was.
Thank You for sharing.
My home town. I remember watching them raise it up from the Yazoo river . Thanks for showing it to the world.
We would drive through Vicksburg every summer, headed from Texas to the AL Gulf Coast for vacation. My father was the best story teller, loved history, and was brimming with facts. Standing in front of one of these gunboats, we figured my dad would impart some very interesting information. He started pointing to the wood and said, "The old wood is old and the new wood is new." My sister and I, being teenagers, just stared at him and said, "that's great, Dad." He was hanging his head, knowing he would never live the comment down. Ofc, he was pointing out the difference between the colors of the old and new wood (at that time, the color and condition of the new wood had not mellowed to what you now see in the video). Anyway, the old wood phrase became a family joke we enjoyed for the next 30 years. My dad's been gone for 7 years now, so sending my sincere appreciation for bringing back such a happy memory of a truly wonderful man.
It's pronounced Kay-row as it's named after the Illinois town.
That's the South Georgia pronunciation too.
Actually, those of us who live down here in Southern Illinois pronounce it "Kare-oh."
@@bernardpaul441 What he said
The English language is very complex, there's no 'correct' way to pronounce words, regions will all be different.
Thank you! I was looking to see if anyone has said that before I posted it lol.
Great camera work and narration. Thanks!
AMAZING VIDEO..AND DETAILED!
When I was a kid people would go up there and picnic on the river bank and we would all watch them working on getting it out of the river.
Just imagine how hot and noisy it must have been inside the ship.
Nothing lets you feel more freedom than sitting in a small box and the last thing you did before getting killed, was inhaling the smell of fifty dirty men the whole day.
Being a Civil War buff, this is an awesome clip. You never get tired of learning history.
I'll send you a link check it out blow your mind
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You should go you want regret it.
same here love the history of the Civil War! We need to pay attention these days its almost like history repeating itself.
How does one become a Civil War Buff?
Very cool! Thanks for the tour of something I may never get time to visit.
make time. it's worth it.
just pack up your car and go see it .no problem
Greetings from Clay County, Missouri!
Thank you! Haven't had a chance to see this in person.
One of my Mother's relations was aboard the USS Cairo (for Ka-roe, Ill) from 30 Jan 1862.
Peter O. Hill was Captain of Mess No. 4, which included immigrants from not only Norway, but also Sweden, Denmark and Germany. His spoon is among the artifacts.
He survived the war, but was killed by runaway horses in Lee county, Ill., around 1890, aged 55.
Thanks again! Peter O. Hill (Peder O. Hidle) Co. "I", 4th Illinois Cavalry
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Man the sounds, heat and the taste in the air while being aboard such a thing in the peaks of battle. Insane
Reminds me of the iron clad in the movie “Sahara”
The paddle wheel wasn't armored because it was inside the armor protection of the ship.
Cool that so much of it survived.
Really nice video, as a Navy veteran I love this kind of history.
My ancestors fought at Vicksburg. My great x3 uncle John Austin Dolson was a captain in a company in the 21st Iowa, one of the regiments that made the only penetration in the defenses around the city during the siege.
I have been there a dozen times. When my girls were young they hated driving out on vacation, because the trip included a visit to the USS Ciaro and a lecture on the civil war and naval warfare.
And the ships name is pronounced not Ki-ro, as in the city in Eqypt. But rather Kay-ro, as in the brand of corn syrup.
Actually, those of us who live down here in Southern Illinois pronounce it "KARE-oh."
Cairo, Egypt came first, pal.
My father was friends with the gentleman that actually rediscovered it. As a 12 year old I went there with my dad, who was a famous professional photographer, and watched them bring up pieces of the Pilot house. I took my grandchildren to see the finished museum. As a veteran, and follower of the civil war history, I understand how important history should be. You did an excellent job with this video. Thank you.
Of the thousands of videos like these I've watched, this man has some of the finest. Very detailed shooting but I especially love having him weave in the history as well as videos (when available) from the place in it's heyday for a reference. Top shelf stuff to subscribe to. Thank You!
The ship is named for the city in southern Illinois. Local pronunciation is "KAY-ro."
Damn. This is like the first “visit a museum” video I’ve ever seen that isn’t awful. It facts it’s great! Thank you!
my relative CAPTAIN JAMES BUCHANAN EADS built them for PRESIDENT LINCOLN
You visit some of the best and most underrated locations! One of the best TH-camrs 👍
Amazing Civil War technology especially the industrialized North in adapting and manufacturing these warships. The sloped armor design was understood then but was then rediscovered by the 20th Century again for turret design on the Dreadnaught style battleships. The sloped armor was important for tank design also because like on battleships all the rounds were powered by modern explosive propellants and projectiles traveling at higher velocities with better penetrating power. The American Civil War was observed by the Europeans especially by the British who started to develop modern steel battleships by the 1880s along with other European powers. The American Civil War revolutionized naval technology for the world. Sloped armor and the revolving turret were some of the inventions that all naval ship engineers did copy.
The battle of the north's USS Monitor against the south's CSS Virginia is one of my favorite naval battles. Both sides had different takes on how to build a ironclad gunboat, and fought to a stalemate. Eventually elements of both designs would be implemented in various warmachine from that point on.
Thanks for taking the time to post this, the naval side of the civil war has always fascinated me.
All the best from nz
Whereabouts did they build these ironclads, thank you for your amazing video.
The U.S.S. Cairo was built in the shipyards at Mound City, Illinois, just up the Ohio River from the city of Cairo, Illinois. Two others were also built there, and four more were built at Carondelet, Missouri (now part of south St. Louis) on the Mississippi River. The Cairo was accepted by the U.S. Navy on January 17, 1862.
Thank you Bernard . Your information very much appreciated.
Actually, torpedoes weren't called mines back then; mines were called torpedoes. The self-propelled weapons that we now refer to as torpedoes did not begin to appear until a few (four) years after the Cairo was sunk.
I grew up going to this Battlefield Park and Cairo Museum. A real gem in the town of Vicksburg. Every few uears Ill return to this battlefield which "iron"-ically, occurred and came to a climax the same day as Gettysburg. Its a beautiful place. Go n see for yourself if traveling along I-20 thru Mississippi, you wont be disappointed.
The ironclad turtle ship is actually a Korean turtle ship. In the historical records of Korea, the iron-clad turtle ship and the iron-clad warship of the steam engine existed even during the reign of Emperor Gojong in 1885.
English is separated from the ancient 🇰🇷 Korean alphabet. After that, Sanskrit and Chinese characters (thousand characters) are created by ancient Koreans. All pronunciations of terms such as English and Anglo-Saxon are in Korean. English means phonetic characters. All of them are in Korean terms. Anglo-Saxon refers to a tribe that uses a script or a tribe that has tattoos with writing. All of them are in the indigenous language of Korea. Tomahawk means 🪓 cutting wood, not an axe. 🇰🇷 This is the Korean term 《토막=tomak》.
🇰🇷 Koreans know that all we have learned is colonial history in the 1800s. The truth is revealed.
Korea's territory was larger than China and Russia combined.
Have a good time 😃
《The world’s first Korean alphabet restoration & the world’s first English alphabet production principle and etymology restoration》
철갑 거북선은 사실 한국 거북선입니다. 한국의 역사기록에는 1885년 고종 때에도 철갑거북선과 증기기관 철갑함이 존재했다고 한다. 《세계 최초의 한글복원과 세계 최초의 영문자 제작원리와 어원 복원》
영어는 고대 🇰🇷 한글과 분리되어 있습니다. 그 후 산스크리트어와 한자(천자)는 고대 한국인에 의해 만들어졌다. 영어, 앵글로색슨 등 모든 용어의 발음은 한국어로 되어 있습니다. 영어는 음성 문자를 의미합니다. 모두 한국어로 되어 있습니다. 앵글로색슨족은 문자를 사용하는 부족이나 문신을 새긴 문자를 사용하는 부족을 말합니다. 모두 한국 고유의 언어입니다. 토마호크는 🪓 도끼가 아니라 나무를 베는 것을 의미합니다. 🇰🇷 한국어 《토막=토막》입니다.
That was cool and all . But to let you know the USS Cairo was a gun boat not. Battleship.
Back in that day I was a battleship
Now this is really really cool!!! Thanks
That was amazing! Love history, and never knew of this, thank you, and Happy Thanksgiving! (from a pilgrim descendant of Edward Doty).
Chris nice video! My best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving! Take care of yourself.
Thanks Mark, Happy Thanksgiving
i actually really like how they "restored" this vessel. left it all as they pulled it up and only built the frame so it could hold itself up.
Absolutely incredible. Though my favorite Ironclad from that era will always be the USS Monitor.
They did a great job reconstructing it I can imagine it on the water with the canons firing !
Happy Thanksgiving Chris. And thanks for this video. Good piece of nautical history there man.
Happy Thanksgiving
Very cool! I'm guessing she's named for Cairo, IL. (So maybe USS "kay-ro"?) Have you done any videos of Cairo? It's a town with a pretty tragic history. Maybe worth a trip upriver?
Holy crap I didn’t know that existed. Thanks for sharing that that was well done!!
If you are still in Ms. check out the Windsor ruins and the Emerald Mound.
I am blown away with how much work and care was put into building this exhibit, well done!
I believe that it is pronounced "kayro".
Came here looking for this comment. Ironically I only know it should be said "K ROW" instead of "KAI ROW" because of the audio book version of American Gods LOL.
I think he isn't aware Cairo, IL is pronounced kayro - but still a very informative video
Actually, those of us who live here in Southern Illinois pronounce it "KARE-oh."
Absolutely amazing...what a great tour... Keep them coming..... we are losing so much of our past...
Thank you so much sir, that was extremely fascinating.
I guess you’d be more fascinated seeing a civil war submarine that may have destroyed this ship( haven’t read its history in years but it’s fascinating).
Great video! The Cairo was sent to Ingall’s shipyard in Pascagoula for preservation/restoration before being brought back to Vicksburg. That must’ve been a very rewarding job!
I live here. My family and I still go because we love history! Great to see you here!
I live where there is another original ironclad, the C.S.S. Neuse in Kinston NC.
thanks pard for sharing; I was in Vicksburg this last summer and also toured the US Cairo. *LIKED* and *SUBSCRIBED*
Must visit to see, thanks for sharing.
This is so awesome! I've never seen an ironclad warship, inside and outside. Just amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your adventures with us all like this. Please keep the incredible videos coming and God bless you, my friend!
Meridian, then Vicksburg. Looks like your heading westbound along I 20. Can’t wait to see if you made a stop in Shreveport.
I was there back in the 90s I am so impressed with how far it is, and how much of the ship has been restored. It was just a work-in-progress in those days.. good job.
"Battleship" and "warship" are NOT synonyms!
Thanks for the video !! I was able to see this while on one of my "Civil War " vacations several years ago, when my wife and I went to Vicksburg to study the battleground. A very memorable trip.
Historians: The USS Texas is America’s oldest battleship
USS Kay Row: am I a joke to you?
I just wrote a comment explaining why most ironclads shouldnt really be considered battleships, they were pretty different from the battleships that would come decades later.
Yeah the Kay row is a iron clad the USS Texas is a dreadnought style Battleship they are completely different battleships are not iron clads
@@F-powerstrokeFord I do have a small comment on this. The original specifications for the USS Roanoke called for I believe 4 turrets with 2 guns each, with uniform 12" smoothbore guns, which was quite impressive at the time (granted, I say 12 inch but they would have been nowhere near the quality of true battleship era guns. Muzzle loaded I believe, maybe black powder too.)
In reality, it got only 3 turrets and gun shortages led to mixed armanent of a couple 12 inchers and a few other guns, which was still enough armanent to almost certainly damage the ship on salvo fire (it could barely sail without capsizing from the weight shifting too.)
But if we want to be technical here, it could be, or at least the original design could have, been the first true armored battleship
Edit: wiki also says they wanted it to have the capability to fit 15" guns too.
Day R actually if we want to be realistic than the first true iron clad was the French made Glorie. She had her lower hull coated in iron.
@@swordlogic1157 no no no, I was saying that the USS Roanoke could have been considered the first *battleship, not ironclad.* it had plans for uniform, extremely large calibre guns (fitting into the motto of "all big gun ship"), and had plans for enough of those guns that it would have actually been (on paper, flaws aside) pretty formidable even by standards decades later.
Unfortunately, nobody knew just how big of a ship it would take to be able to wield them. So it came out far overgunned for her size, even after downgrading and removing a turret. My entire argument earlier is that ironclad does =/= battleship always
I hope that it was thoroughly saturated with propylene glycol and then sealed with a plasticizing emulsion.
It's like historical asmr this should not be so nice and satisfying to listen to as it is but it really is
Thanks for sharing! I will put this on my bucket list for a place to visit.
How much does the go fund me want to fully restore it?
Can we give them money to restore it?
Will they restore it if we pay for it?
chris smith maybe make a reproduction but probably not fully repair it.
Amazing, navy Brazil 🇧🇷 have a monitor ship.
Navigating the Amazon River.
In the active navy of Brazil 🇧🇷.
this is very fascinating. rather surpising you don't hear much about ironclads other than the battle of the Merrimack and the Monitor
Thanks 4 going to vicksburg. I hope you had a good time.
The Vicksburg National Military Park is the only American Civil War battlefield I've been to. It is fantastic. Oh, and btw, Yazoo is not pronounced Yah-zoo (rhyming with Yahoo), it's pronounced Yazz zoo (rhyming with 'bash who').
Someone asked in comments where these were built at. James Eads shipbuilding built these in Carondelet (St. Louis) Mo, and Mound City Illinois. There were seven built: St. Louis (later Baron DeKalb), Carondelet, Mound City, Cairo, Cincinnati, Louisville, and the Pittsburg.
Great video. Ive been trying to get there for years too see this museum. This will hold me over until I make it there!
There was no American civil war dumbass.
It was Lincoln’s war!
Booth should have killed the scum in1860!
1:06 Nice use of what looks to be small gauge Railroad Rails, inverted to give a better surface to mount the vertical pieces of iron cladding (why they're called "Iron clads"). This ship was built in 1861, and by using the rails (with existing tooling or stocks) that no doubt speed up the process of building the ship. Great video, and GREAT restoration.
Good detail about the mines being called "torpedoes" back then. Admiral Farragut's famous cry, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" as he drove his Union flotilla into Mobile Bay [Alabama] to shell the Confederate fort there is often misinterpreted.
You gotta say one thing they built things to last back in the day
😇🙏 Well, thank God the Soviets "invented sloped armor" in the early 1940s with the T-34 tank! If not for that invention, the Confederates and Union navies wouldnt have been able to travel 80 years forward in time, to learn about sloped armor, so that they could then return back to 1860s America to install it on their own warships!! ✌🙄🤞
1. It is not a Battleship. 2. It is a city class Iron clad
So interesting! Thanks, Chris!
@Mobile Instinct >>> Great video!
One slight correction: I believe you called this a _"battleship"._ I think the correct name would be _"gunboat"._
Going from that to aircraft carriers in less than 100 years???????? I don't see that a possibility without some kind of intellectual intervention.
Hey I grew up there!
Wow. Thanks for sharing this history with us. Very well presented. I wish you could have shown us the artifacts in the museum. Maybe next time your nearby you can grab a few pictures for us. Side thought: Imagine all the gunpowder and explosives they must have had to carry. They are lucky the mine didn't rupture the boilers or catch the black powder on fire. I'm guessing with just the mine sinking it there were survivors. Just guessing.
Awesome love the history. Great find love how you give the story
The C.S.S. Jackson at the naval museum in Columbus Georgia is also amazing. A lot of the wooden structure of the hull remains along with the giant propellers. It is located inside along with various naval artifacts from both the Union and Confederate navies, including a boat from Admiral Farraguts Flagship. I have seen both the Cairo and the Jackson and both are awesome. It is amazing what our ancestors could build with the technology they had available to them. I fully recommend the Naval Museum in Columbus Georgia to anyone who hasnt been.
Been there and done that. While your there visit the battlefield and museum. Vicksburg was blockaded and under siege by the Union for a considerable number of months. Basically starved them into surrender and took control of the Mississippi River. That was the beginning of the end.
What a great video! My great uncle commanded her sister ship Mound City during the Vicksburg campaign.
Those planks are probably preserved from all the countless hours of scrubbing the sailors had to give them. (Busy sailors didn't have time to think about their condition.) It probably wasn't too bad in the winter-but oh my imagine the stifling hellish existence it was in the summertime! The poor sailors were basically inside a steam oven of smelly coal smoke and sweating bodies but they probably didn't mind those iron plates when the cannonballs started flying. This ship showcases the overwhelming industrial might of the North that the South simply couldn't survive against.
Sure looks too sophisticated for a bunch of simple men from the 1800's. The fact it was covered in mud tells me another story. Check out JonLevi for some incredibly interesting historical musings
Went and toured Vicksburg this past spring and was very disappointed with the complete lack of upkeep of the battlefield. All the grass was completely over grown and weeds were out of control. Just to walk around and see stuff we had ticks climbing on us. The visitors center was in disrepair and closed. This Cairo exhibit was completely closed. In fact, the entire thing was roped off with cheap big box store nylon tape but we went in, anyway. Hell, there were no, and i mean ZERO rangers anywhere in the park to give a crap that we were in there.
There was nothing and nobody to stop degenerates from applying graffiti or damaging things on that battlefield. Covid is no excuse for the state of complete neglect and disrepair the whole Vicksburg site was in.
Amazing how *BIG* that thing is! Also, note the boilers very similar to *Titanic's* boilers...
Very well narrated, excellent stabilisation of this interesting piece of American history, such a very sad war with American against American, and a part of the history of the United States.
Thanks so much for a most interesting walk around this historic craft.
I haven't been to Vicksburg since 2004. They were not as far on that display at that time, I don;t think it was covered yet, but the wheel and a few of the guns were around along with some of the catwalk.
The whole battlefield museum is a nice day trip, lots of memorials and interesting history about the battle. Some beutiful views of the river too, especially at sunset.
You did a kick ass job explaining this, I very much enjoyed watching this video thank you and I will be subscribing to your channel brotha.
I can't believe you didn't show the rest of the park, it's filled with monuments and battlefields and cemeteries, a real wasted opportunity.
the first BATTLE SHIP of it's day!
Both the battlefield and the USS Cairo are very interesting, and Vicksburg is too a lot of history there
I Thank you for all of your historical videos. History is a passion of mine. I can't travel to the places you have been so it's nice to go along with you and feel like I'm there with you. Thank you again.
It's amazing that it's in that good of condition. That's for the history and a awesome video !
Could you imagine being a Confederate solder in a wooden fort seeing that behemoth bearing down on you with those 3 forward facing canon looking at you. Guaranteed to be an OH SHIT moment.
I live about two or three hours west in Shreveport, and we went there once on a boy scout trip and walked the entire park trail, not an easy walk, exhausting, saw the ship and took some polaroids ( it was the 80's ), I don't remember going as close to it as you're getting, it may not have been as acessible then but you could see it then,but the museum around it may not have been built. There are some beautiful monuments in that park.
That is truly fascinating. I wonder if my sister saw this when she was living there.
Cool vid, Fascinating to see. Good job.. 😏💯👍🏼
Really excellent documentary. Great presentation. Thank you.
Awesome , we have to preserve our history!!!. Don't let the loopy modern left distort it to fit their deranged narratives.
Cairo, Illinois. Ha! That name alone shows the boat's age.