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The CSS Neuse, a gunboat in a cornfield

Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina · 1865

The CSS Neuse, a gunboat in a cornfield

The Confederacy built an ironclad on the Neuse River at Kinston and the river mostly refused to carry it: the Neuse ran aground on its first sortie and was burned by its own crew in 1865 as the town fell.

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