Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads: The USS Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia

by Myron J Smith Jr. and Myron J. Smith Jr.

A Scottish immigrant to Illinois, Joseph Brown made his pre-Civil War fortune as a miller and steamboat captain who dabbled in riverboat design and the politics of small towns. When war erupted, he used his connections (including a friendship with Abraham Lincoln) to obtain contracts to build three ironclad gunboats for the U.S. War Department--the Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia. Often described as failures, these vessels were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786495766
• ISBN13: 9780786495764
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher