The USS Cairo, a Civil War-era “ironclad” gunboat, was raised from the Mississippi River in 1964—but if its wood decay problem goes unaddressed, it may sink again.

On the cold morning of Dec. 12, 1862, Lt. Cmdr. Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr., the skipper of the federal ironclad, USS Cairo, led a small flotilla up the Yazoo River, north of Vicksburg, to destroy ...

The Vicksburg National Military Park (VNMP) announced some changes at the park due to the ongoing government shutdown. The ...

the uss cairo was built in mound city il.she was commissioned 1/25/1862 she was on tour in the yazoo river and hit a confederate mine and sunk 12/12/1862.she was raised 8/13/1964 out of the yazoo ...

Over that past 15 to 20 years there has been a revolution in U.S. ship docking tugs. Larger container ships and tankers made obsolete the conventional single and twin propeller tugs that could serve ...

The Vicksburg National Military Park will let Mississippians get an up close and personal look at the USS Cairo Saturday during a special evening candlelight tour of the Civil War ironclad.The event ...

My grandmother had a saying, "Sometimes big things come in small packages." I believe this applies to Mound City, Illinois, when it comes to its impact on helping the Union Army win the Civil War. To ...

Thomas O. Selfridge Jr. was a career U.S. Navy officer who commanded vessels operating around Arkansas during the Civil War and was indirectly responsible for the later destruction of the Mississippi ...