Seven of Hearts

The C.S.S. Stonewall Jackson/Gunboat

The C.S.S. Stonewall Jackson was involved in the battle of New Orleans and destroyed the Varuna (Union Navy) before it was burned.

• The C.S.S. Selma, engaged during the Battle of Mobile Bay, was taken prisoner by the U.S.S. Metacomet and converted to a Union Navy ship.
• The U.S.S. Housatonic was destroyed by the C.S.S. Hunley, whose torpedo spar sank the gunboat on Feb. 17, 1864.
• The U.S.S. Lexington sieged Paducah and Smithland, KY, stopped the Confederate Army offensive in KY, and was invilved in the Red R. campaign.

...Many of these ships were refitted with heavy oak timbers and iron plating that protected the paddle wheelers and gunports...