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Interview with Matthew Young, current Site Manager at the CSS Neuse Civil War Museum. We will be discussing the only remaining COMMISSIONED Confederate Ironclad on display in the world, the CSS Neuse!

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Music by the talented Joe Stevens. 

This week we discuss the sinking of the Russian monitor Rusalka in 1893, leading us eventually to one of the most unique shipwrecks of all those we've covered so far. 

**correction**
- Towards the end of the episode Tanner mistakenly says that Rusalka sank during the reign of Nicholas II; he did not become Tsar until 1896. Rusalka sank during the reign of his father Alexander III.

This error was made presumably because Tanner does not respect the Romanov monarchy.

*Originally released 12/6/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/27/22

Sources:

"Battleships Rusalka and Charodeika." Rustrana, 11 Oct 2007.

Chikin, V.O. "The Mystery of the Disappearance of the Rusalka."  Priroda, 2004, no. 4.

Delgado, J. "The Wreck of the Mermaid." Archaeology, 2008, vol. 61, no. 5.

Nikonov, A.  "Rusalka Found!" Priroda, 2004, no. 10.

Nikonov, A. "From Rusalka to Kursk." 2003

Vanner, A. "The wreck of the Rusalka 1893." Dawlish Chronicles,  24 March 2015.



*Video of diving on the Rusalka"

A civil war cracked off in the New World that would last four years and rip the Republic asunder. For more than 1400 days, brother fought brother, father killed son, friend cut down friend. Not for a minute did the suffering stop, whether for the soldiers or the noncombatants. Disease, privation, hunger, petty violence, rape, and pillage roamed the land from the swamps of S.C. to the P.A. forests. From the Mississippi to the Mountains of Appalachia, 10k and more battles were fought of every size, from glorified bar brawls to clashes of cataclysmic scale. By its end, over a million lives had been snuffed out and millions more ruined. The butcher's bill on both sides included lowly privates and brilliant generals, statesmen and lawmakers, farmers, women, shopkeepers, teachers, children, slaves, a president, and everyone in between.

"In every battle, there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins." - Grant's statement is not just a bit of battlefield wisdom. He could just as readily have been describing North and South in the lead up to the American Civil War. Or throughout the War itself. Or any of the thousands of battles that took place during the War. Lincoln, self admittedly no military man, understood the dogged nature needed to win the drag em out drop em down type contest that this War was going to become. "Our success or failure at Donelson is vastly important and I beg you to put your soul in the effort" he wrote to his Western commander. Finding the type of man that would attack even after he thought he'd already lost proved difficult, but not impossible. It was on the rivers of the Western theater that the War would shift for good. Where the man and the mind Lincoln and the Union most needed would mature into a singular force. Let's go back to February 1862, to the winding calm of the Cumberland River. New bizarrely beetle-like and inky black but deadly ironclad beasts are chugging upstream to pound two forts into submission. One will fall quickly, and with little fight, the other will take days and see savage combat. Where a determined Brig General is preparing to show his family, his country, and himself that he's no failure, he can, in fact, succeed, maybe even excel. Where a group of cold but confident confederate soldiers is readying to defend their new country no matter the cost. Let's go back to the battle of Fort Donelson.

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Sources - Grant by Ron Chernow and The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville  by Shelby Foote and The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan

Music:

Battle Hymn of the Republic by The U.S. Army Band

When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Air Force Band of Liberty

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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