Class Year
2018
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
Spring 4-12-2017
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
When the American Civil War ended in 1865, the United States government sold off naval vessels as the country transitioned to Reconstruction. One of those vessels, the CSS Stonewall, traveled to countless and unexpected locations. The CSS Stonewall never fought in the American Civil War as it was intended to do, but instead was destined to fight in the civil war between the Japanese shogunate and emperor as the first ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Andrioli, Alexandria J., "King Cotton and the Rising Sun: The Japanese Navy’s Confederate Ironclad" (2017). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 241.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/241
Comments
This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College.