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"CSS Arkansas, Yazoo City, Mississippi. This rare tinted photograph hangs in the Chancery Clerk's office, Yazoo City. The CSS Arkansas, an ironclad Confederate ram vessel, was the terror of the Yankee fleet until her engines failed trying to break the siege of Vicksburg, at which time her captain ordered her blown up to prevent capture." View of CSS Arkansas. Side 2.
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"CSS Arkansas, Yazoo City, Mississippi. This rare tinted photograph hangs in the Chancery Clerk's office, Yazoo City. The CSS Arkansas, an ironclad Confederate ram vessel, was the terror of the Yankee fleet until her engines failed trying to break the siege of Vicksburg, at which time her captain ordered her blown up to prevent capture." View of CSS Arkansas. Side 2.
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- Item: 522
- Description: "CSS Arkansas, Yazoo City, Mississippi. This rare tinted photograph hangs in the Chancery Clerk's office, Yazoo City. The CSS Arkansas, an ironclad Confederate ram vessel, was the terror of the Yankee fleet until her engines failed trying to break the siege of Vicksburg, at which time her captain ordered her blown up to prevent capture." View of CSS Arkansas. Side 2.
- Creator(s): Collins, Commander Robert W.
- Date: 196-
- City/State: Yazoo City, Mississippi
- County: Yazoo County
- Call Number: PI/2008.0001
- Filename: 123310-photo-2.tif