Prolific author Myron J. Smith, Jr., is emeritus library director and professor at Tusculum University, Greeneville, Tennessee.
“an excellent account...highly recommended”—Choice; “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”—Civil War Books and Authors; “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”—America’s Civil War; “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”—Civil War News.
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