...On 12 December 1862, while clearing mines from the
river, the USS Cairo struck a torpedo detonated by Confederate
volunteers hidden behind the river bank and sank in twelve minutes; there
were no casualties. Cairo became the first armored warship sunk by
an electrically detonated mine....
December 8, 2009
Jim Lewis - Stones River, Tennessee
January 12, 2010
Tim Smith - Shiloh, Tennessee
February 12, 2010
Friday Night!
Note Date Change
Jack Davis - The Siege of Charleston,
South Carolina
March 9, 2010
James McPherson -
Richard Barksdale Harwell Book Award.
Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief: Tried by War
April 13, 2010
Jeffery Wert - The Stonewall Brigade vs.
The Iron Brigade
