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Meet the unstoppable Mr. Smalls
He would go on to share intelligence with the U.S. Navy, fight in 17 naval battles, rise to the rank of major general, overcome illiteracy, publish a newspaper, win state and congressional offices, serve as a U.S. collector of customs and become master of his master’s plantation house. But first he had to hijack a Confederate steamer.
By Gerald S. Henig, America's Civil War Magazine
This famous Navy warship sank on New Year’s Eve
"Our little vessel was lost, and we, in months gone by, had learned to love her, felt a strange pang go through us as we remembered that never more might we tread her deck, or gather in her little cabin at evening."
By Olav Thulesius, Civil War Times Magazine
The Navy’s big green monster!
It wasn't the last expensive Navy project to suffer long delays before flopping during operations at sea.
By Ron Soodalter, America's Civil War Magazine
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