It is one thing to take an elite ship and crew into action against impossible odds. It is quite another level of bravery to take a ship which is deficient in almost every way, with broken down engines, thin armor, second hand guns, a green crew, and defective ammunition into such a battle, and win.
40 artillery men from Missouri volunteered to take it from Yaazoo to Vicksburg and 30 of them were dead by the time it got there. It took an absolute beating from boats as well as the entire siege structure on the banks. And the ship itself didn’t take any damage it was just the gunner openings that got them killed because of how much beating they were getting hit with, the Arkansas only fired back a few times. All in about 36 hours, one of the most hellish things I’ve ever read about
My ancestor was on the union ironclad St. Louis/Baron de Kalb and saw service from Paducah, Ft. Donelson, Island No. 10, Vicksburg and the Yazoo expedition and afterward. His life after the war was marked by a reputation for simmering belligerence which tore apart his family and alienated his wife and daughter until his death in 1926. If he wasn't deaf from the cannons he definitely suffered from PTSD.
This was the best ironclad the confederacy built. It only fought in two engagements but it scared Farragut into the gulf. No other ironclad withstood the beating this thing took. The assault on Baton Rouge was a mistake. It’s remains sit in a breaking yard in baton rouge to this day but it’s probably not worth salvaging because it’s rotting away in a pile of ancient barges. You wouldn’t know even what you were dredging up.
Thank you! I’ve been listening to Shelby Foote’s Civil War Trilogy, and I’ve always had a hard time visualizing the various naval actions covered in the book. This helps greatly!
Happy Friday Warhawk crew I hope y'all are well! I was so happy to this up when I woke this morning! Captain Brown, wow! Always admired him and his crew's bravery! Arkansas needed Brown or she never would have left port! The bravery displayed from these sailors and all the people of this time never ceases to inspire me especially in regards to alot of the southern commanders! Thanks and y'all have a great weekend, catch ya soon!
11:52 USS Kennebec and Katahdin, both named from the great state of Maine. Kennebec is one of our Counties and Katahdin (Kah-tah-din) is the highest point in Maine. Maine Uber Alles!
I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the Arkansas, admittedly in part because it looks like a child's drawing of an ironclad. One of the strangest looking ships of the war.
It's hard to imagine being a stoker on any of these ships, filling the boilers with coal or wood or anything combustible, working in the stifling heat and unbreathable air. The conditions for those sailors were bad enough, but when you combine the time required to refill a ships coal bunkers and the logistical challenge of maintaining the massive number of bases needed to keep ships full of coal, you start to see why navies were eager to power ships with oil.
What is the front and side armor on the CSS Arkansas? Only the stern 1-inch boilerplate is mentioned. There is plenty of information of the wooden and cotton backing behind the armor but no mention of the front and side armor.
@@footballnick2 oh cool you got the name of it by chance? I have a small library of American Civil War books ranging from the different Generals and officer biographies to the Confederate Marine Corps and diaries but none about the Union and Confederate Navies.
@@rc59191 "History of the Confederate Navy" by Raimondo Luraghi is a solid one, same with a similar book by J. Thomas Scharf. There's also books dealing solely with the CSS Arkansas, CSS Florida, CSS Alabama, CSS Shenandoah etc. Also biographies on figures like Raphael Semmes are available.
You know, watching this, I’m reminded of the level in the video game, Civil War Generals 2 , the Vicksburg Naval Action. I remember trying to research all I could because I could never successfully complete that level in the game’s campaign.
It says everything about Confederate fortunes in the West that by 1862 their plan had been reduced to „we have one ironclad* of questionable quality and if we fight really hard we can go up against the entire union fleet of 5 Ironclads, 2 rams and half a dozen sloops“. ‘Fight really hard‘ is always the fallback for armies that have no way to actually win. The only time that ever works is if you outnumber the opposition. *or not so iron-clad
Another amazing video!!! If I may put forward a suggestion, for the officers you take quotes from but have no pictures for, put on some hair and perhaps a mustache to make it more of a stereotypical look of Civil War Officers.
I has learnet Farragut tried to occupied Vicksburg in 1862 for some months, but how he gave it up was not expleined exactly. So everything remained for Grant.
why'd you stop before the end of the Arkansas though? It was just a little bit more (even if there was no fighting) but instead it ends on a cliffhanger. Would've been a fitting closure to the narrative.
I know that this isn't entirely related but this makes me wonder why after Hampton roads the csa blew up the Virginia it could have gone up the James river as far as Richmond and been safe and could have helped to protect the city and maybe stop grant from crossing the James in 1864
The virgina had a draft of 23 feet. The pilots said it could be no more than 18 feet to go up the james. They managed to do so exposing the hull below the sheild. The pilots then said the wind was blowing the wrong way and the draft still to much. The army abandon Norfork with out notifieing the virgina and with no time to either Ballesteros for battle or try to lighten the ship any more since the plan depended on crossing Hampton roads in the dark she was taked to cranny Island west of the Elizabeth River so the crew could retreat to Confederate lines and burned. Fire reached the magazine while the crew walked to drewerys bluff
I just found your channel and I'm enjoying your content, however, I'm not seeing the Revolutionary War content or WW2 content that you mentioned in your channel description. Is it on another channel, by chance, or is it still on the "to do" list?
Awesome video. I've been waiting for an episode about Arkansas for a long time, and it was worth it. A ship that defied all odds. Such a shame that she was made by the confederacy and not the union. Also fun fact: her steam engines were takes off of two twenty-year-old locomotives that were i belive kept for spare parts. I'd also like to mention, that Carondelet's story is as intresting as Arkansas's
this Porter guy seems useless. We probably never hear about him again. The CW is just such a ballet of bravery and incompetence on all sides, especially early on. But also on all sides a unbelievable bickering and infight between Generals. And of innovations that just have find their way yet. It also shows the wisdom of seperating your army from your navy. IF you can get beyond the aforementioned bickering and infight and make them work together (hopefully) to their best abilities..
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Show more sweet sweet USS Cincinnati actions 20:25
The bravery by both of these fleets, but especially the Arkansas. They were really ready to sink the entire union fleet alone or die trying.
It is one thing to take an elite ship and crew into action against impossible odds. It is quite another level of bravery to take a ship which is deficient in almost every way, with broken down engines, thin armor, second hand guns, a green crew, and defective ammunition into such a battle, and win.
Being in those ironclads sounds like hell.
All those guys definitely had severe PTSD for the rest of their lives.
40 artillery men from Missouri volunteered to take it from Yaazoo to Vicksburg and 30 of them were dead by the time it got there. It took an absolute beating from boats as well as the entire siege structure on the banks. And the ship itself didn’t take any damage it was just the gunner openings that got them killed because of how much beating they were getting hit with, the Arkansas only fired back a few times. All in about 36 hours, one of the most hellish things I’ve ever read about
My ancestor was on the union ironclad St. Louis/Baron de Kalb and saw service from Paducah, Ft. Donelson, Island No. 10, Vicksburg and the Yazoo expedition and afterward. His life after the war was marked by a reputation for simmering belligerence which tore apart his family and alienated his wife and daughter until his death in 1926. If he wasn't deaf from the cannons he definitely suffered from PTSD.
This was the best ironclad the confederacy built. It only fought in two engagements but it scared Farragut into the gulf. No other ironclad withstood the beating this thing took. The assault on Baton Rouge was a mistake. It’s remains sit in a breaking yard in baton rouge to this day but it’s probably not worth salvaging because it’s rotting away in a pile of ancient barges. You wouldn’t know even what you were dredging up.
Let it rot.
I don't envy the men who had to work on the early ironclads. Regardless of which side they were on. Because it was just so dangerous.
Thank you! I’ve been listening to Shelby Foote’s Civil War Trilogy, and I’ve always had a hard time visualizing the various naval actions covered in the book. This helps greatly!
This video is the definition of the Free Bird guitar solo
Totally, a certain meme channel could help us out with that
Listen, God had never made something more terrifying than a pissed Kentucky man with a lot of guns. This is just that on the river.
you might be right!
You mean SATAN 666
Babe wake up. New Warhawk
You ok baby? You haven’t finished your Warhawk video yet
Happy Friday Warhawk crew I hope y'all are well! I was so happy to this up when I woke this morning! Captain Brown, wow! Always admired him and his crew's bravery! Arkansas needed Brown or she never would have left port! The bravery displayed from these sailors and all the people of this time never ceases to inspire me especially in regards to alot of the southern commanders! Thanks and y'all have a great weekend, catch ya soon!
You’re welcome Derek!
21:00 More like some were courageously complaining and others cowardly kept silent.
These are so good I give a like before I even watch..
glad to hear that!
11:52
USS Kennebec and Katahdin, both named from the great state of Maine. Kennebec is one of our Counties and Katahdin (Kah-tah-din) is the highest point in Maine.
Maine Uber Alles!
I saw the names and said Maine when I saw them
Odd how you didn't mention during the entire fight the Freebird solo could be heard playing from the Arkansas
Dang I forgot go add it!
Ah yes the battle of Vicksburg so quick so naval
Keep up the amazing work dude love your channel!!!
very wow much epic
Nothing like a Warhawk video when you should be sleeping. lol
Beautiful as always!
Thanks Soulkiller! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Another great video....I've been putting your videos on at work and watching one after another.
I use to tell this story when I lectured on the Civil War in the Western Theater.
I never once had a kid that knew of this before hand
I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the Arkansas, admittedly in part because it looks like a child's drawing of an ironclad. One of the strangest looking ships of the war.
Hope you enjoyed the video!
Not to mention it was weird reddish-orange-brown instead of grey
Boats. In the River. With Guns. River Gunboats.
knock knock
It's hard to imagine being a stoker on any of these ships, filling the boilers with coal or wood or anything combustible, working in the stifling heat and unbreathable air. The conditions for those sailors were bad enough, but when you combine the time required to refill a ships coal bunkers and the logistical challenge of maintaining the massive number of bases needed to keep ships full of coal, you start to see why navies were eager to power ships with oil.
I only clicked on this because there are 4 people waiting for this video to come out at 10am and it’s 6am…..one dedicated fan base
quite so, we release vids at 9am CST
Excellent job , again
Thanks again Alan!
this is some good stuff thank you for your hard work
thanks Enalb!
Grant is close to going sicko mode
Soon soon
Those men were beasts, great video
Much appreciated!
Really well done.
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice to see the western theatre back, cannot wait too see Grants manoeuvring around Vicksburg. I believe some Swedish officers served under him.
I’m excited for it too! My hometown regiment soon will be whipping any yankee attack against their entrenchments when we get there
amazing work
What is the front and side armor on the CSS Arkansas? Only the stern 1-inch boilerplate is mentioned. There is plenty of information of the wooden and cotton backing behind the armor but no mention of the front and side armor.
Love your content! Please keep up the great work.
Wish there was more videos out there about the brown water Navy on both sides there's none about the the timber clad ships that were used.
There are good books on the navies of the Civil War.
There will be more to come!
@@footballnick2 oh cool you got the name of it by chance? I have a small library of American Civil War books ranging from the different Generals and officer biographies to the Confederate Marine Corps and diaries but none about the Union and Confederate Navies.
@@WarhawkYT awesome thank you for messaging back look forward to it as always!
@@rc59191 "History of the Confederate Navy" by Raimondo Luraghi is a solid one, same with a similar book by J. Thomas Scharf. There's also books dealing solely with the CSS Arkansas, CSS Florida, CSS Alabama, CSS Shenandoah etc. Also biographies on figures like Raphael Semmes are available.
"Plantation owners volunteer their enslaved workmen." That's an interesting way or wording that....
Quite so, they were voluntold to go work on the ship
Excellent show, thank you 😊
Thanks Sparkey!
Can't wait until we get to the cruise of the Indianola.
The Ironclad is a deathtrap
You know, watching this, I’m reminded of the level in the video game, Civil War Generals 2 , the Vicksburg Naval Action. I remember trying to research all I could because I could never successfully complete that level in the game’s campaign.
I’m glad you enjoyed Cavalier!
I’m fairly certain that the Arkansas gave the Union fleet quite a big surprise.
Quite so
Just curious do yiu have a video on the invasion of Vicksburg?
Awesome work as always! Gonna have to fire up Grand Tactician Civil War this morning.
Thanks RC!
@@WarhawkYT you're welcome thank you for all the work you do!
It says everything about Confederate fortunes in the West that by 1862 their plan had been reduced to „we have one ironclad* of questionable quality and if we fight really hard we can go up against the entire union fleet of 5 Ironclads, 2 rams and half a dozen sloops“.
‘Fight really hard‘ is always the fallback for armies that have no way to actually win. The only time that ever works is if you outnumber the opposition.
*or not so iron-clad
Another amazing video!!! If I may put forward a suggestion, for the officers you take quotes from but have no pictures for, put on some hair and perhaps a mustache to make it more of a stereotypical look of Civil War Officers.
Thanks, I’ll consider that for future videos
I has learnet Farragut tried to occupied Vicksburg in 1862 for some months, but how he gave it up was not expleined exactly.
So everything remained for Grant.
Oh yeah, it’s all coming together
why'd you stop before the end of the Arkansas though? It was just a little bit more (even if there was no fighting) but instead it ends on a cliffhanger. Would've been a fitting closure to the narrative.
I know that this isn't entirely related but this makes me wonder why after Hampton roads the csa blew up the Virginia it could have gone up the James river as far as Richmond and been safe and could have helped to protect the city and maybe stop grant from crossing the James in 1864
The Virginia got stuck trying to do just that and they had to destroy lest she be captured by the union
The virgina had a draft of 23 feet. The pilots said it could be no more than 18 feet to go up the james. They managed to do so exposing the hull below the sheild. The pilots then said the wind was blowing the wrong way and the draft still to much. The army abandon Norfork with out notifieing the virgina and with no time to either Ballesteros for battle or try to lighten the ship any more since the plan depended on crossing Hampton roads in the dark she was taked to cranny Island west of the Elizabeth River so the crew could retreat to Confederate lines and burned. Fire reached the magazine while the crew walked to drewerys bluff
Another fine film ! I would love to see General Forrest’s campaigns done by you. It would be a wonderful series !
Thanks Steven, we’ll get there soon enough!
I just found your channel and I'm enjoying your content, however, I'm not seeing the Revolutionary War content or WW2 content that you mentioned in your channel description. Is it on another channel, by chance, or is it still on the "to do" list?
Those are on the to do list, however WW2 might be coming out really soon
Let's go Porter!
Let’s goo!
McBlair is secretly D.H. Hill 😉😃
The confederate navy was fighting with both hands tied. All they could do was kick has hard has the could.
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Do we have a winner?
Ironclads ❤🥵
They about blow
Awesome video. I've been waiting for an episode about Arkansas for a long time, and it was worth it. A ship that defied all odds. Such a shame that she was made by the confederacy and not the union.
Also fun fact: her steam engines were takes off of two twenty-year-old locomotives that were i belive kept for spare parts.
I'd also like to mention, that Carondelet's story is as intresting as Arkansas's
Only a shame if you are from the Northern states 😉
Thanks for the extra info Slyfox!
Clive Cussler's versions of these two ships' stories make for absolutely gripping reading
@@talamioros Well...where do you think i have first read about them? X3
@@MrSlyFox I guessed as much but couldn't be sure so I tested xD
Is this guy a robot? lol
Cannot compute… initiate self destruction in 3… 2… 1…
this Porter guy seems useless. We probably never hear about him again.
The CW is just such a ballet of bravery and incompetence on all sides, especially early on. But also on all sides a unbelievable bickering and infight between Generals. And of innovations that just have find their way yet.
It also shows the wisdom of seperating your army from your navy. IF you can get beyond the aforementioned bickering and infight and make them work together (hopefully) to their best abilities..
well said Diesunddas!
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