Jefferson City ironclad yards, New Orleans
Naval works, New Orleans (Jefferson City), Louisiana.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Naval works
- Where
- New Orleans (Jefferson City), Louisiana
- Years
- 1861-1862
JEFFERSON CITY IRONCLAD YARDS
Nelson and Asa Tift built the ironclad CSS Mississippi at their yard here, beside E. C. Murray's yard building CSS Louisiana. Mississippi was launched unfinished and burned on April 25, 1862, as Farragut's fleet arrived. Louisiana was destroyed by her crew after the forts below the city surrendered.
Then
Nelson and Asa Tift built the ironclad CSS Mississippi at their own yard in Jefferson City, beside E. C. Murray's yard building CSS Louisiana. The ram CSS Manassas was converted across the river at Algiers.
Mississippi was launched unfinished and burned on April 25, 1862, as Farragut's fleet arrived. Louisiana was destroyed by her crew after the forts below the city surrendered on April 28, 1862.
Now
Lines owned by Norfolk Southern, smaller railroads and CSX run through New Orleans (Jefferson City) today.
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