title: The CSS Arkansas: A Confederate Ironclad on Western Waters
author: Myron J.
description: "an excellent account...highly recommended"--<i>Choice</i>; "an incredibly detailed chronicling of the river gunboats's career from construction to self-destruction...the ship's 23 day operational career is meticulously recounted...the most thorough, and best by far, treatment for the vessel's history"--<i>Civil War Books and Authors</i>; "If it sailed on the brown water of America's Western rives during the Civil War and flew the Stars and Stripes of the Union Navy, Myron Smith more than likely knows about it"--<i>America's Civil War</i>; "Smith provides a well-written and thoroughly engrossing account of this extraordinary vessel...this is a truly outstanding book, essential to any student of naval warfare...it highlights the essential role played by the Union and Confederate navies on the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers in 1862"--<i>Civil War News</i>.
zlib_text: The CSS Arkansas
  
  ALSO BY MYRON J. SMITH, JR.
  The USS Carondelet: A Civil War Ironclad on Western Waters (2010)
  Tinclads in the Civil War: Union Light-Draught Gunboat 
  Operations on Western Waters, 1862–1865 (2010)
  The Timberclads in the Civil War: The Lexington, Conestoga
  and Tyler on the Western Waters (2008)
  Le Roy Fitch: The Civil War Career of a 
  Union River Gunboat Commander (2007)
  The Baseball Bibliography, 2d ed. (4 volumes, 2006)
  
  The CSS Arkansas
  A Confederate Ironclad 
  on Western Waters
  Myron J. Smith, Jr.
  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
  Jefferson, North Carolina, and London
  
  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
  Smith, Myron J.
  The CSS Arkansas : a Confederate ironclad on
  western waters / Myron J. Smith, Jr.
  p.    cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-4726-8
  softcover : 50# alkaline paper 
  1. Arkansas (Confederate ram)  2. Mississippi River 
  Valley—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Naval operations,
  Confederate.  3. United States—