Four of the gunboats -- USS St. Louis, Carondelet, Louisville and Pittsburg -- were built at the Carondelet Dry Dock. The remaining three -- USS Cairo, Mound City and Cincinnati -- were built at ...

(Carondelet Historical Society) A crane lifts the armored pilot house of the Union gunboat USS Cairo from the Yazoo River on Sept. 15, 1960, after rediscovery of the wreck. The Cairo was sunk on ...

One of his original Mound City gunboats, the USS Cairo, sank near Vicksburg in 1862. Rediscovered in 1956, the Cairo's remains and a treasure in artifacts are part of the national battlefield ...