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Cottonclad Catastrophe: How a Boiler Turned Confederate Pride to Wreckage
Cottonclad Catastrophe: How a Boiler Turned Confederate Pride to Wreckage
The boiler exploded without warning, sending fourteen scalded men into the Mississippi and turning sixty-two days of hurried conversion into a decisive disaster that helped end Confederate control of the river. What combination of poor design, rushed conversion, and uncertain armament made a former towboat into a vessel whose one catastrophic hour would change a campaign?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led from a civilian towboat to the CSS General Beauregard’s fatal morning on the Mississippi…
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