USS Indianola: Deluded People Cave In
Presenter:
John V. Quarstein
Director emeritus of the USS Monitor Center
About the lecture:
USS Indianola, a lightly armed casemate ironclad, patrolled the Mississippi below Vicksburg alongside Queen of the West. After Confederate rams captured Indianola, Admiral D.D. Porter launched an audacious deception: a fake ironclad known as Black Terror. The ruse panicked Confederate forces, prompting them to scuttle Indianola and leaving Vicksburg’s defenders with severely reduced naval support.
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Image Credit: Sketch “Deluded People, Cave In!” From Harper’s Weekly. Courtesy Naval History and Heritage Command, NH 95021