The CSS Arkansas
Smith, Myron J.![The CSS Arkansas](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/984/9840318/CHSBZCOP039840318.jpg)
While the Merrimack and Monitor are the most famous of the Civil War ironclads, the Confederacy had another ship in its flotilla that carried high hopes and a metal hull. The makeshift CSS Arkansas, completed by Lt. Isaac Newton Brown and manned by a mixed crew of volunteers, gave the South a surge of confidence when it launched in 1862. For 28 days of summer, the ship engaged in five battles with Union warships, falling victim in the end only...