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Vicksburg National Military Park
USS Cairo Gunboat
USS Cairo Gunboat
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USS Cairo Gunboat
USS Cairo

Ironclad River Gunboat: City Class

Commissioned: January 16, 1862

Torpedoed and Sunk: December 12, 1862

Raised: December 12, 1964
 
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Confederate President Jefferson Davis made his antebellum home in Warren County, just south of Vicksburg.

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