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CSS Texas was the third and last Columbia-class (or Tennessee-class according to some sources [1]) casemate ironclad built for the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Not begun until 1864 and intended to become part of the James River Squadron, she saw no action before being captured by Union forces while still fitting out.
After having been a territory first of Spain and then of Mexico and later an independent republic, Texas was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on 29 December 1845. CSS Texas, a...
CSS Texas , a 217-foot long ironclad ram, was launched at Richmond, Virginia, in January 1865. She was still fitting out when Federal forces captured the Confederate capital city in April 1865. The incomplete Texas was captured and taken to the Norfolk Navy Yard where she was sold in October 1867.
The Battle of Hampton Roads, also referred to as the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (rebuilt and renamed as the CSS Virginia) or the Battle of Ironclads, was a naval battle during the American Civil War.
In July 1862 one of the most epic naval engagements of the Civil War took place when the 165-foot ship, clad with railroad T-rails, steamed down the Yazoo, running the Union ironclad Carondelet aground and chasing two wooden gunboats out into the Mississippi.
CSS Texas was a Columbia-class casemate ironclad built for the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Not begun until 1864, she saw no action before being captured by Union forces while still fitting out. The keel for CSS Texas was laid down at Richmond, Virginia.
CSS Texas CSS Texas was the last ironclad built at Richmond, though she was never completed due to lack of iron for her casemate and suitable cannon. Her design with its shortened casemate and only four cannon, characterizes the increasing desperation of the Confederate Navy as the war wore on.
