Tinclads in the Civil War

Prolific author Myron J. Smith, Jr., is emeritus library director and professor at Tusculum University, Greeneville, Tennessee.

Table of Contents



Abbreviations      viii

Introduction     



1. Rivers and Steamboats     

2. Insurgents and Gunboats     

3. The Coming of the Tinclad     

4. Early Rounds, August–December 1862     

5. Tinclad River Guardians, January–April 1863     

6. Guerrilla Attacks and Morgan’s Raid, May–December 1863     

7. Troubled Rivers, January–March 1864     

8. Fort Pillow, the Petrel, and Red River, April 1864     

9. The Big Guns of Brig. Gen. Major, Col. Greene, and Capt. Creuzbauer, May 1864     

10. Long, Hot Summer, 1864     

11. Decatur and Johnsonville, October–November 1864     

12. Nashville and Beyond, December 1864–April 1865     

13. Winding Down, May to the Fall of 1865     



Appendix I: Tinclad Acquisition Chronology, 1862–1865     

Appendix II: Tinclad Postwar History, 1865–1876     

Chapter Notes     

Bibliography     

Index