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

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

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

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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 fer"documents the life and career of Joseph Brown, a miller and steamboat captain who built three ironclad gunboats for the US War Department"ocious 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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