The Confederate government under the leadership of Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory embarked on an ambitious shipbuilding program that included construction of about 50 ironclad gunboats, 22 of ...
KINSTON —The remnants of the Confederate ironclad CSS Neuse sit in a climate-controlled facility in downtown Kinston, a far cry from the bottom of the Neuse River. How it got there is explained in a ...
For almost all of human history, boats were made of wood. Sure, today we've got amazing ships built from steel and composites, but people have been sailing for thousands of years, so almost every ship ...
KINSTON, N.C. (WNCT) – At the corner of Gordon and Heritage Streets in downtown Kinston lies something extraordinary. “It’s the only full-scale replica of an ironclad in the world. We’ve got people ...
A Civil War ironclad ship used by the Confederacy has a new home in eastern North Carolina. The CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center, now open in Kinston, displays what’s left of the ship. The ...
The end of the Civil War paved the way for some of the freedoms we see in our country today. In this week’s Amazing America 250, we take a trip to Kinston, where a Civil War warship sits in the heart ...
KINSTON, NC (WECT) - Most people are aware of the many ground battles that took place between 1861 and 1865, but both the Union and Confederate armies had a variety of naval warships. Before the war ...
Almost 150 years after taking part in the Civil War, a Confederate warship settled into a new home Thursday with the opening of a Kinston museum in its honor. Almost 150 years after taking part in the ...
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