KINSTON, NC (WECT) - Most people are aware of the many ground battles that took place between 1861 and 1865, but both the Union and Confederate armies had a variety of naval warships. Before the war ...

On October 17, 1862, the contract was signed to build the Confederate ironclad gunboat CSS Neuse. The vessel was needed to bolster southern naval defenses and to prevent Union occupation of the ...

The construction, short life and destruction of the Confederate ship CSS Neuse was the topic of Andrew Duppstadt lecture at Museum of the Albemarle on Wednesday, July 2. Duppstadt, who is the ...

KINSTON —The remnants of the Confederate ironclad CSS Neuse sit in a climate-controlled facility in downtown Kinston, a far cry from the bottom of the Neuse River. How it got there is explained in a ...

KINSTON, N.C. (WNCT) – “We house the only remaining commissioned Confederate Ironclad above water,” noted Matthew Young, site manager for the CSS Neuse Interpretive Center in Kinston. Sitting at 158 ...

This week, an archaeological team is expected to set out to see if they can find remains of the CSS Neuse, a battleship that met a watery grave near Kinston, NC, during the Civil War. Now, many of you ...

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Matthew Young’s love of ships, the navy and the Civil War as well as his desire to preserve history while making these available to the public has led him on a four-year questto make the CSS Neuse ...

In the waning months of the Civil War, a young gunner from Virginia floated outside Kinston aboard the CSS Neuse, lamenting the cold, mourning the rebel cause and writing love-struck tributes to a ...

The CSS Neuse Civil War Museum opened to the public on Saturday with limited capacity after being closed for almost six months amid the COVID-19 pandemic. With new procedures in place, the museum ...