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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 ...
On Dec. 12, 1862, naval history was made when the Union ironclad USS Cairo, involved in the campaign against Vicksburg, was sunk in the Yazoo River in Mississippi in 36 feet of water by an ...