The USS Cairo ship and museum at Vicksburg are also very cool. Thanks for this stop on the tour. Having served in the Navy, I love ships. One hundred and twenty years later, our life was still guided by the bell.
So much history in one ship. She’s beautiful just the way she is. Love this video. Well done guys. This is one part of history that we hear so little about. Thank you for bringing it to life. 👍😁
Just visited the museum this weekend. Definitely worth the time. As good as the video is, it’s definitely more meaningful to see it in person. If you visit on a Saturday, there’s a full-scale recreation a block behind the museum you can visit. Also worth the visit.
There’s 2 confederate iron clads still intact in the mouth of the Spanish river along mobile river in mobile Alabama. CSS Tuscaloosa and CSS Huntsville. Both were scuttles on their way to demopolis Alabama after mobile fell to yankee hands
The CSS Neuse design was based on CSS Albemarle, and it was economical, effective and even elegant, putting two big guns in a short sloped casemate so that minimal armor was required. The hull design was quite simple, needing mostly carpentry skills rather than proper shipbuilder ones, and so could be build a cornfield. Things would have been very interesting had the Confederacy built a number of these ironclads in 1862 rather than 1864.
all they needed for their independence is what they needed a few generations before, the french. the world would have been so much better off without the federal government we have now, I only wish people could have seen what is now coming before it was too late.
Yes, exactly. The Confederate government signed a contract with teenager Lt. Gilbert Elliott of Elizabeth City NC, a member of a family that operated a boat yard and constructed boats on the Albemarle sound before the War and also a law clerk in the office of Colonel (later General) James G. Martin of the 17th NC Infantry Regiment, to build the Albemarle in the cornfield. As construction took place, Confederate naval officials documented its design and set that design as the plan for building the Neuse. (The Neuse was already planned and partially under construction at Whitehall - now Seven Springs, NC --- but construction was much delayed and final construction of the boat was to the Albemarle design). Contemporary documents in 1864 - 65 call the CSS Neuse an "Albemarle-class" gun boat.
Absolutely fascinating. I want to add where he said it was the only one you could get a gun deck level he is wrong. In the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Ga they have the remains of the CSS Jackson with very similar upper-level tubing denoting the casemate and Gundeck. If you have not gone you need to go check it out. And now the CSS Neuse is on my bucket list. I wanted to tell the Battlefield Trust guy to be quiet and let the guy who runs the place give the tour.
I think (amidst the "enthusiasm"), that the description of the "gun level" available in the CSS Neuse museum for the public to see was for the modern replica of the casemate and gun deck. As with the CSS Jackson, the original upper levels of the Neuse were destroyed or deteriorated with time. A modern replica is far from the real thing, but I think that the public can get an idea of the shape and use of the gun deck from the replica and imagine it in its place in the "framework" around the original hull as shown by the tubing forms. Does the Georgia museum have a similar modern replica of the casemate/gun level?
Amazing video, so many questions: who designed it who was its captain what action did it see how did it compare to the union ships why didnt the soldiers salvage the tools/cannons/Iron before its scuttle
The Neuse was built by the shipbuilding company of Thomas Howard and Elijah Ellis of New Berne, NC. Since New Berne was in Union hands, Howard and Ellis set up a temporary boat yard on the banks of the Neuse near present day Seven Springs, NC. Because there were few small ironclad gun boats in the Union navy, its design was mostly "off the cuff" to a general plan of construction laid out by Confederate authorities; this design had added design features set during the similar construction of the CSS Albemarle in northern North Carolina. The commissioning of the boat was under the auspices of Commander Robert F. Pinckney, an Annapolis graduate of about 1831. He resigned his commission in the US. Navy after about 30 years, was commissioned into the Confederate navy, and served as commander of various Confederate vessels in Louisiana, Georgia, and Virginia before taking command of the Neuse. He was recognized by Secretary of the (Confederate) Navy Mallory as an "efficient officer". The first active captain was William Sharp, a lieutenant in the Confederate Navy but the slow progress in building the Neuse meant that he was posted to another vessel as the Neuse was being completed. Confederate Navy Captain Benjamin Loyall served as commander during it's completion and during a abortive attempt to use the boat to support a Confederate invasion at New Bern in 1864. Loyall was transferred to the command of a Confederate vessel in Virginia, being replaced by Captain Joseph Price who had been serving in the Confederate Navy in Savannah, Georgia. Price, a native of Wilmington, NC, served as captain until the sinking of the boat. The boat was floated to Kinston in an unfinished condition in mid-1864 and work continued there. It was used as a "floating battery" as part of the action related to Battle of Wyse's Forks (a Union invasion from New Berne, seeking to meet up with Sherman's troops at Goldsborough) but was not usefully engaged and then burnt, blown up, and scuttled near Kinston, NC. It was destroyed by its own crew as Union forces moved from Wyse's Forks to Kinston. There was little time for anything but incidental items to be removed from the boat before it was destroyed to keep it from falling into the enemy's hands. I hope that this is helpful.
Let Garry be Garry, and those who want him to slow down can use the UA-cam playback speed settings to slow him down to their speed. 😉 That, or you can make him go even faster. 😉🤣
Neat video and tour! Thanks for that. You say that the CSS Neuse is the only confederate ironclad above water, but what about the CSS Jackson in the National Civil War Museum in Columbus, GA?
I think that the reference was to the replica casemate and gun room at the museum. It's not a part of the original boat but it gives museum visitors an idea of the layout and scale of that part of the boat. The remains of both boats are similar, with differences in size and armament (the CSS Jackson has six guns versus the Neuse's two). Mostly the remains of both vessels are the hulls having been somewhat preserved by underwater mud over the years.
Not shown in the video is if they would have opened up one of the exterior doors just outside the museum is a 1:1 scale replica of the Neuse...beautiful. You can go aboard, inside of it, and see everything. Too bad Garry didn't go check that out.
The 1:1 scale reproduction of the Neuse (a marvelous effort, clearly showing the huge mass of the original boat) has been built by a local historical group in Kinston. Being not a part of the N. C. Department of History -- the museum for the original boat is an official N. C. Historic Site - it seems that there is not much of a relationship between the two sites. It's a shame since both provide valuable context to understand the original boat, the strategic location and purpose of Kinston during the War, and the various campaigns in eastern North Carolina; it's just that they do it each in a different way.
Did they say what happened to the Iron top part of the ship? In another video of the replica across the street from this.. they mentioned the locals knew where it was in the river and often would fish off of it, and even some people dived inside it and recovered some artifacts. So what happened to the top part of the ship.
The salvage company from New York took as much of the iron plate as they could for iron scrap. This was in the 1800s. Also, when the boat was originally scuttled in 1865, it was burned as much as possible so that Union troops couldn't take anything to use against the Confederate forces. The wood on the upper section was partially burned and when the iron was removed, the remnants rotted away quickly. Also, the salvage company wanted to remove the engines (there are newspaper accounts from Kinston newspapers in the late 1880s describing the engines being stored before they were loaded on railway cars to be shipped away. It's unclear if they were sold for use as engines or if the were scrapped) and the only way to get to them was to tear large holes in the upper decking. Similar damage was done to the wooden structure to remove the rifles. All this meant that soon after the boat was scuttled, the upper level was pretty much trashed. Then it sat in the water for 60 - 70 years; the keel and lower hull was mostly preserved by a thick layer of river mud but the upper level -- having already been burned and wrecked -- continued to disintegrate. When the salvage operation in the 1960s found a much bigger amount to attempt to recover, they destroyed remnants from the top so that they could cut the hull and keel into four parts, which were then pulled out of the river by bulldozers. All this meant that by the time that the State of North Carolina began to conserve and document what was left, there was little of the upper part of the boat. All this goes to describe the condition of the items you see here. BTW, I have used the parlance of the time, calling the vessel a "gun boat" or a "boat". There was a naval bureau within the forces of the Confederacy which included many men formerly from the US Navy or previously merchant sailors and the bureau and its personnel used traditional naval terms. As WWII's US Navy called a PT-boat (and a submarine, as a "submersible torpedo boat") a "boat", I believe the proper naming during the War and today for the CSS Neuse is as a "boat" not a ship.
I have to be honest and give some constructive criticism, Not the greatest host with the hat and blue shirt on…Boy he sure is jumpy. He’s too busy jumping all over the place trying to be the director telling the presenter where to look. That would be really frustrating. The presenter doesn’t need his direction. Let it be a organic and natural presentation. He doesn’t need to be always looking into the camera. The main presenter talking about the ship did a fantastic job. I’m sure being live has its challenges. Super cool video! Thank you. 👍
@@charlescollins9413 There are records of some of the iron from railroad rails from the NC and Atlantic railway (the railroad from Raleigh, through Goldsboro, Kinston and New Bern to the NC port now called Morehead City) being taken to Tredegar Iron Works at Richmond to be rolled into plate for the "Neuse" and the "Albemarle". I don't know if Tredegar made guns as large (and technologically advanced) as Brooke rifles but at least some cannon were manufactured there.
This is hilarious. CCS NEVER FLOATED! The only purpose it ever served was for a temporary dry dock when my grandfather's sidewheel steamboat "Phillips" was holed and he used the empty hull to make repairs! I remember going to the site where they were trying to recover what was left!
Crazy how the people most willing to throw their freedom away to the federal government care soo much about slavery when it was so much worse in the north than in the south to be a slave.
@@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272, they never tell that side of history. Even Ken Burns retold his story of The Civil War on the 2nd showing. He stated and showed for fact, New York had more slaves per capita on the original PBS broadcast.
Noise during the battle???! What battle was that?! The only battle was trying to float this thing in 3ft of water! Anyone that grew up along the Neuse River will tell you the only time there might be enough water in the river would be springtime when it was scuttled!
There are records of it firing its guns in the direction of Union positions shortly after the Battle of Wyse's Forks (a battle ground arrayed around the junction of the Southwest Creek with the Neuse river). It appears that the plan was for an attempt to return the boat to Kinston to act as a "floating battery" to cover the retreat of D.H. Hill's Confederate forces, it ran aground several times on what original accounts call "sand bars". The description in this video indicates that there was a plan that it was to fire what it could and then be scuttled but my take on original reports on the time was more that it was deemed to be uselessly trapped in the river after the battle and the decision to scuttle was then taken but it's clear that the boat did make it's way down the river so some navigation on the river was possible. PS There are also contemporary reports of "camels", empty air tank being chained to the flanks of the boat to give it more bouyancy thus raising the keel and lower hull of the boat higher in the water. Having grown up near the Neuse in eastern NC, I agree that there's not a lot of water to float a large boat in but it appears that there was at least some navigation possible in the river at that time.
Garry, PLEASE! Calm down! Your hyper presence is very distracting. You're like a kid in an amusement park. The presentation of our country's historical artifacts and locations deserves respect and should be spoken of in a solemn manner.
The USS Cairo ship and museum at Vicksburg are also very cool. Thanks for this stop on the tour. Having served in the Navy, I love ships. One hundred and twenty years later, our life was still guided by the bell.
MORE ENERGY! Loving it!
Excellent. Your presentation, was perfect.
You be you Gary. We love what you do.
Just joined ABT last week, partly because of your great knowledge Gary.
Thanks for all the efforts, you be you!
Gary's energy is so appreciated!. A true patriot!
Well done-glad to see such an important naval ship preserved and displayed. Well done Matthew and Gary!
Don't ever change, Gary. You bring a wonderful energy to every video. Thanks for all you do.
The ed bearrs impression I would give it a 6. Not bad but not great. LOL. Great video fellas.
this is a very well done little museum!
So Amazing to see this ship never heard of her before, Great setup to show her .
Garry's energy is infectious! This man is doing what he loves, not working at a job.
So much history in one ship. She’s beautiful just the way she is. Love this video. Well done guys. This is one part of history that we hear so little about. Thank you for bringing it to life. 👍😁
Hey Matt! All of us in Columbus miss you. Great video.
If you haven’t seen the USS Cairo in Vicksburg, you need to go see it. It is nearly intact in comparison to this ship.
Just visited the museum this weekend. Definitely worth the time. As good as the video is, it’s definitely more meaningful to see it in person.
If you visit on a Saturday, there’s a full-scale recreation a block behind the museum you can visit. Also worth the visit.
You keep jumping, buddy! Enthusiasm is contagious!
There’s 2 confederate iron clads still intact in the mouth of the Spanish river along mobile river in mobile Alabama. CSS Tuscaloosa and CSS Huntsville. Both were scuttles on their way to demopolis Alabama after mobile fell to yankee hands
Great presentation !! Thanks Garry and Matthew there is never much on the Confederate navy. You are filling up a much neglected area.
Amazing find to be able to touch it too.
Looking forward to seeing everything! Had no clue the hull was that thick wow!
The CSS Neuse design was based on CSS Albemarle, and it was economical, effective and even elegant, putting two big guns in a short sloped casemate so that minimal armor was required. The hull design was quite simple, needing mostly carpentry skills rather than proper shipbuilder ones, and so could be build a cornfield.
Things would have been very interesting had the Confederacy built a number of these ironclads in 1862 rather than 1864.
all they needed for their independence is what they needed a few generations before, the french. the world would have been so much better off without the federal government we have now, I only wish people could have seen what is now coming before it was too late.
Yes, exactly. The Confederate government signed a contract with teenager Lt. Gilbert Elliott of Elizabeth City NC, a member of a family that operated a boat yard and constructed boats on the Albemarle sound before the War and also a law clerk in the office of Colonel (later General) James G. Martin of the 17th NC Infantry Regiment, to build the Albemarle in the cornfield. As construction took place, Confederate naval officials documented its design and set that design as the plan for building the Neuse. (The Neuse was already planned and partially under construction at Whitehall - now Seven Springs, NC --- but construction was much delayed and final construction of the boat was to the Albemarle design).
Contemporary documents in 1864 - 65 call the CSS Neuse an "Albemarle-class" gun boat.
Garry, don't you ever change. Love your energy.
Love the inspirational energy!
I really wish I could visit this wonderful museum.
So glad to see the Battlefield Trust right at my home. Thanks
Garry you were like an excited puppy 🐶 lol 😆 great 👍
I wasn't expecting much from this video. Boy, was I wrong. Great job!
Absolutely fascinating. I want to add where he said it was the only one you could get a gun deck level he is wrong. In the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Ga they have the remains of the CSS Jackson with very similar upper-level tubing denoting the casemate and Gundeck. If you have not gone you need to go check it out. And now the CSS Neuse is on my bucket list. I wanted to tell the Battlefield Trust guy to be quiet and let the guy who runs the place give the tour.
I think (amidst the "enthusiasm"), that the description of the "gun level" available in the CSS Neuse museum for the public to see was for the modern replica of the casemate and gun deck. As with the CSS Jackson, the original upper levels of the Neuse were destroyed or deteriorated with time.
A modern replica is far from the real thing, but I think that the public can get an idea of the shape and use of the gun deck from the replica and imagine it in its place in the "framework" around the original hull as shown by the tubing forms.
Does the Georgia museum have a similar modern replica of the casemate/gun level?
Never calm your enthusiasm for what you do Gary 👌
Hey buddy you did well Thank you ... MATT. AND OUR FAV.GUY WE LOVE YOUR JUMPING TALKING ....WELL DONE....
Keep doing what you're doing !! 🇺🇸 ❤ 🎖
Thank you. Great job as always, by the both of you. 10 out of 10.
Truly Awsome to see this wonderful piece of history!
Love the energy! Bounce all you want man! Don't let anyone tell you to dim your passion for history!
Wow! Surprised how modern of a design this ship is.
Love your vids Garry!!! Thank you so much
Please never calm down Gazza
This is fantastic, never heard of her until we had a visit to HMS Unicorn(1824) , afloat at Dundee, Scotland from Matthew from CSS Neuse 👍
Amazing video, so many questions:
who designed it
who was its captain
what action did it see
how did it compare to the union ships
why didnt the soldiers salvage the tools/cannons/Iron before its scuttle
Where were the toilettes?
:)
The Neuse was built by the shipbuilding company of Thomas Howard and Elijah Ellis of New Berne, NC. Since New Berne was in Union hands, Howard and Ellis set up a temporary boat yard on the banks of the Neuse near present day Seven Springs, NC.
Because there were few small ironclad gun boats in the Union navy, its design was mostly "off the cuff" to a general plan of construction laid out by Confederate authorities; this design had added design features set during the similar construction of the CSS Albemarle in northern North Carolina.
The commissioning of the boat was under the auspices of Commander Robert F. Pinckney, an Annapolis graduate of about 1831. He resigned his commission in the US. Navy after about 30 years, was commissioned into the Confederate navy, and served as commander of various Confederate vessels in Louisiana, Georgia, and Virginia before taking command of the Neuse. He was recognized by Secretary of the (Confederate) Navy Mallory as an "efficient officer".
The first active captain was William Sharp, a lieutenant in the Confederate Navy but the slow progress in building the Neuse meant that he was posted to another vessel as the Neuse was being completed. Confederate Navy Captain Benjamin Loyall served as commander during it's completion and during a abortive attempt to use the boat to support a Confederate invasion at New Bern in 1864. Loyall was transferred to the command of a Confederate vessel in Virginia, being replaced by Captain Joseph Price who had been serving in the Confederate Navy in Savannah, Georgia. Price, a native of Wilmington, NC, served as captain until the sinking of the boat.
The boat was floated to Kinston in an unfinished condition in mid-1864 and work continued there. It was used as a "floating battery" as part of the action related to Battle of Wyse's Forks (a Union invasion from New Berne, seeking to meet up with Sherman's troops at Goldsborough) but was not usefully engaged and then burnt, blown up, and scuttled near Kinston, NC.
It was destroyed by its own crew as Union forces moved from Wyse's Forks to Kinston. There was little time for anything but incidental items to be removed from the boat before it was destroyed to keep it from falling into the enemy's hands.
I hope that this is helpful.
Let Garry be Garry, and those who want him to slow down can use the UA-cam playback speed settings to slow him down to their speed. 😉
That, or you can make him go even faster. 😉🤣
What a great video. I want to visit sometime
Keep up the energy. It is contagious
You are crazy energetic. Keep it up.
Great video!
Neat video and tour! Thanks for that. You say that the CSS Neuse is the only confederate ironclad above water, but what about the CSS Jackson in the National Civil War Museum in Columbus, GA?
CSS Jackson was never commissioned. The CSS Neuse was and if I’m not mistaken so was the CSS armebelle
I think that the reference was to the replica casemate and gun room at the museum. It's not a part of the original boat but it gives museum visitors an idea of the layout and scale of that part of the boat.
The remains of both boats are similar, with differences in size and armament (the CSS Jackson has six guns versus the Neuse's two). Mostly the remains of both vessels are the hulls having been somewhat preserved by underwater mud over the years.
MORE MORE MORE THIS IS GREAT...
I think the Brooke rifled cannons were built at the Selma Ironworks and naval ordinance, and a few at Tredegar.
Not shown in the video is if they would have opened up one of the exterior doors just outside the museum is a 1:1 scale replica of the Neuse...beautiful. You can go aboard, inside of it, and see everything. Too bad Garry didn't go check that out.
The 1:1 scale reproduction of the Neuse (a marvelous effort, clearly showing the huge mass of the original boat) has been built by a local historical group in Kinston. Being not a part of the N. C. Department of History -- the museum for the original boat is an official N. C. Historic Site - it seems that there is not much of a relationship between the two sites. It's a shame since both provide valuable context to understand the original boat, the strategic location and purpose of Kinston during the War, and the various campaigns in eastern North Carolina; it's just that they do it each in a different way.
Keep it professional, Gary! That's all I have to say.
He is
Good, Good. (I feel a drinking game coming on) ps. I know I'm late, but love Gary's energy.
No need to chill out, be you and let the knowledge come fourth 😉
More jumping please!!!
Thanks guys beautiful
Did they say what happened to the Iron top part of the ship? In another video of the replica across the street from this.. they mentioned the locals knew where it was in the river and often would fish off of it, and even some people dived inside it and recovered some artifacts.
So what happened to the top part of the ship.
The salvage company from New York took as much of the iron plate as they could for iron scrap. This was in the 1800s. Also, when the boat was originally scuttled in 1865, it was burned as much as possible so that Union troops couldn't take anything to use against the Confederate forces. The wood on the upper section was partially burned and when the iron was removed, the remnants rotted away quickly. Also, the salvage company wanted to remove the engines (there are newspaper accounts from Kinston newspapers in the late 1880s describing the engines being stored before they were loaded on railway cars to be shipped away. It's unclear if they were sold for use as engines or if the were scrapped) and the only way to get to them was to tear large holes in the upper decking. Similar damage was done to the wooden structure to remove the rifles.
All this meant that soon after the boat was scuttled, the upper level was pretty much trashed. Then it sat in the water for 60 - 70 years; the keel and lower hull was mostly preserved by a thick layer of river mud but the upper level -- having already been burned and wrecked -- continued to disintegrate. When the salvage operation in the 1960s found a much bigger amount to attempt to recover, they destroyed remnants from the top so that they could cut the hull and keel into four parts, which were then pulled out of the river by bulldozers.
All this meant that by the time that the State of North Carolina began to conserve and document what was left, there was little of the upper part of the boat. All this goes to describe the condition of the items you see here.
BTW, I have used the parlance of the time, calling the vessel a "gun boat" or a "boat". There was a naval bureau within the forces of the Confederacy which included many men formerly from the US Navy or previously merchant sailors and the bureau and its personnel used traditional naval terms. As WWII's US Navy called a PT-boat (and a submarine, as a "submersible torpedo boat") a "boat", I believe the proper naming during the War and today for the CSS Neuse is as a "boat" not a ship.
@@brucebear1
Thank you for the fantastic detailed information. Really appreciate it.
Thanks.
Incredible
No mention of the Neuse 2?
Braxton Bragg was more of a hinderance than a help to the Confederacy.
i don't remember reading if anyone ever liked him. was he even married? poor woman.
Described as the most useful Union general in the Confederate army!
Let me say this... if a presenter isn't excited about the topic, how is the audience supposed to feel?
Just a note...The video has this location as KINGSTON. Thats incorrect. The CORRECT spelling is K I N S T O N. No "G".
I have to be honest and give some constructive criticism, Not the greatest host with the hat and blue shirt on…Boy he sure is jumpy. He’s too busy jumping all over the place trying to be the director telling the presenter where to look. That would be really frustrating. The presenter doesn’t need his direction. Let it be a organic and natural presentation. He doesn’t need to be always looking into the camera. The main presenter talking about the ship did a fantastic job. I’m sure being live has its challenges. Super cool video! Thank you. 👍
Too much coffee
Haha…Yes maybe. It was still a great presentation. I was just trying to help. I hope I didn’t come off too negative.
He is great. Amped about Civil War history. Watch his Gettysburg videos.
Step back and let the curator have the show.
That’s amazing
Awesome 👌
super cool!!!!!
My father was one of the one's to remove the ship from the River...
Spelled it wrong. It is Kinston
How was it powered?
Not bad on the Ed Bearss
I know one of the South's only cannon factories was in Columbus, GA.
Selma was also one of the main cannon manufacturers
@@charlescollins9413 There are records of some of the iron from railroad rails from the NC and Atlantic railway (the railroad from Raleigh, through Goldsboro, Kinston and New Bern to the NC port now called Morehead City) being taken to Tredegar Iron Works at Richmond to be rolled into plate for the "Neuse" and the "Albemarle". I don't know if Tredegar made guns as large (and technologically advanced) as Brooke rifles but at least some cannon were manufactured there.
tis pronounced wustersher. Well thats how we pronounce it down ere in devonsher anyways.
Just love garys frenetics. Passion in motion so to speak.
Not true. CSS Jackson (Iron Clad) is on display at the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, GA.
10:00. No, sweetie, it's nothing like woven. It's more like plywood - layers with opposing grain.
Oh come on, that's a good Ed Bears imitation.
Lea and Perrins. Which is based on the old Roman Garum sauce.
Did anyone else think about the intro to Sahara
Hey! You said you would show some personal artifacts but did not!
Those iron rams on Civil War ships are leftover from the times of ancient Rome.
See this is how I want the USS Cairo preserved in a climate controlled building like this. The Cairo is just outside and under a big tent.
Ed Bearrs:7👍
Kinston, not Kingston. Great work otherwise 👍
This is hilarious. CCS NEVER FLOATED! The only purpose it ever served was for a temporary dry dock when my grandfather's sidewheel steamboat "Phillips" was holed and he used the empty hull to make repairs! I remember going to the site where they were trying to recover what was left!
Charleston west virgina
lea and Perins
lea and perrins ????
woechester sauce
I haven't researched it, but I would guess slaves were made to work on this ironclad at some point or another.
They tried but the slaves had issues with white men trying to put them on boats.
Who knows who cares. Most of the ironclads were built by private individuals who were white
@@charlescollins9413 Folks interested in history might care.
Crazy how the people most willing to throw their freedom away to the federal government care soo much about slavery when it was so much worse in the north than in the south to be a slave.
@@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272, they never tell that side of history. Even Ken Burns retold his story of The Civil War on the 2nd showing. He stated and showed for fact, New York had more slaves per capita on the original PBS broadcast.
Please donate to American battlefield trust!!!
Worcestershire sauce , pronounced woostershire .
Noise during the battle???! What battle was that?! The only battle was trying to float this thing in 3ft of water! Anyone that grew up along the Neuse River will tell you the only time there might be enough water in the river would be springtime when it was scuttled!
Perhaps the river has changed greatly in depth in the last 160 odd years.
There are records of it firing its guns in the direction of Union positions shortly after the Battle of Wyse's Forks (a battle ground arrayed around the junction of the Southwest Creek with the Neuse river). It appears that the plan was for an attempt to return the boat to Kinston to act as a "floating battery" to cover the retreat of D.H. Hill's Confederate forces, it ran aground several times on what original accounts call "sand bars". The description in this video indicates that there was a plan that it was to fire what it could and then be scuttled but my take on original reports on the time was more that it was deemed to be uselessly trapped in the river after the battle and the decision to scuttle was then taken but it's clear that the boat did make it's way down the river so some navigation on the river was possible.
PS There are also contemporary reports of "camels", empty air tank being chained to the flanks of the boat to give it more bouyancy thus raising the keel and lower hull of the boat higher in the water. Having grown up near the Neuse in eastern NC, I agree that there's not a lot of water to float a large boat in but it appears that there was at least some navigation possible in the river at that time.
Please settle down!
Reaching into displays to touch artifacts is REALLY unprofessional. No wonder people's kids do it.
Garry, PLEASE! Calm down! Your hyper presence is very distracting. You're like a kid in an amusement park. The presentation of our country's historical artifacts and locations deserves respect and should be spoken of in a solemn manner.
Everybody disagrees with ya lol. Shows passion for the subject and not some boring presentation in a classroom
I agree!
I think you need more energy. Jk
Democrat made.
😆
I've been there and went down by the area along the river