Ironclads
Ironclads
The Mississippi River system was the highway of the western part
of the Confederate and United States. At the beginning of the
war, the South controlled the Mississippi from Cairo, Illinois,
where the Ohio emptied into the Mississippi, to New Orleans.
There were several important rebel strongholds along the Mississippi,
including Memphis, Island Number Ten, on the Tennessee-Kentucky
border, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Union realized that controlling
the Mississippi River system was essential to their …showed first 75 words of 1768 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1768 total…Confederacy. The
reason that the Union ironclads had more impact lies both in
their greater numbers and their greater quality, and the results
of these advantages are shown in the Union victories due to
ironclads, like Island Number Ten and Memphis, and the lack of Southern
victories due to ironclads. Although ironclad ships did not
dominate every battle in which they were used, they were essential
to determining the outcome of the American Civil War.
