Background
Bearss, Edwin COle was born on June 26, 1923 in Billings, Montana, United States. Son of Omar E. and Virginia (Morse) Bearss.
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Fort Smith; little Gibraltar on the Arkansas,
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Rebel Victory at Vicksburg
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Decision in Mississippi: Mississippi's important role in the War Between the States
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"The essential conclusion it is hoped the reader will reach is that strategically the campaign and capture of Vicksburg were the decisive military events of the Civil War." —from the Foreword
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Fort Smith: Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas
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No history of the West is complete without the story of Fort Smith, the fort that “refused to die.” Established in 1817, Fort Smith was repeatedly abandoned and reoccupied during the following fifty years, eventually becoming the mother post of the Southwest. The original fort was installed on the Arkansas River by Major William Bradford and a company of the Rifles Regiment. Bradford’s mission was to stop a bloody war between the Osages and the Cherokees, a conflict discouraging the emigration of eastern Indians to the lands west of the Mississippi and thereby interfering with the government’s removal policy. During the Civil War, Confederate armies at Wilson’s Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove were supplied from Fort Smith, and the Rebel force that crushed Opothleyoholo’s band marched from Fort Smith. The fort was taken by Federal troops in September 1863 and served as a Union base for the remainder of the Civil War. In 1871 the army again abandoned the fort, but the Federal Court for the Western District of Arkansas soon moved in. Under Judge Isaac Parker, the renowned “Hanging Judge of Fort Smith,” the court became a force for law and order in much of Indian Territory.
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Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo
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On the morning of December 12, 1862, the Union gunboat Cairo, nosing her way up the Yazoo River north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, triggered two Confederate demijohn mines. Within minutes the 512-ton ironclad had sunk six fathoms to the muddy bottom with no loss of life -- the first armored war vessel ever downed by an electronically activated mine. A whole new era of naval warfare had begun. In Hardluck Ironclad Edwin Bearss tells how he and two other Civil War historians discovered the Cairo almost a century later -- still intact at the bottom of the Yazoo, her big guns loaded and ready to fire, much of the gear aboard just as it was that December morning when the crew abandoned her -- and how, almost miraculously, she was later salvaged and restored.
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Hardluck ironclad: The sinking and salvage of the Cairo by Bearss, Edwin C (1980) Hardcover
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Edwin COle Bearss
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Science, Georgetown University, 1949. Master of Arts, Indiana University, 1955.
Career
Historian, Vicksburg National Military Park, 1955-1958; regional research historian, from 1958; research historian National Park Svc., unites states department Interior, 1965-1972; supervisory historian, unites states department Interior, 1972-1981; chief historian, unites states department Interior, 1981-1994; special assistant to director, since 1994.
Achievements
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Decision in Mississippi: Mississippi's important role in the War Between the States
("The essential conclusion it is hoped the reader will rea...)
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Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo
( On the morning of December 12, 1862, the Union gunboat ...)
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Fort Smith: Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas
( No history of the West is complete without the story of...)
- Rebel Victory at Vicksburg
- Fort Smith: Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas
- Decision in Mississippi
- Fort Smith; little Gibraltar on the Arkansas,
- Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo by Edwin C. Bearss (1980-06-01)
- Hardluck ironclad: The sinking and salvage of the Cairo by Bearss, Edwin C (1980) Hardcover
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Decision in Mississippi: Mississippi's important role in the War Between the States
Membership
Served with United States Marine Corps, 1942-1946, PTO.
Connections
Married Margie Riddle, July 30, 1958. Children: Sara Beth, Edwin Cole II, Mary Virginia.
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American