The Confederate government under the leadership of Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory embarked on an ambitious shipbuilding program that included construction of about 50 ironclad gunboats, 22 of ...

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 ...

A Civil War ironclad ship used by the Confederacy has a new home in eastern North Carolina. The CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center, now open in Kinston, displays what’s left of the ship. The ...

KINSTON, N.C. (WNCT) – People are learning more about history at the CSS Neuse Museum in Kinston. Saturday marked the first year anniversary of opening. Workers gave demonstrations and lectures to ...

For almost all of human history, boats were made of wood. Sure, today we've got amazing ships built from steel and composites, but people have been sailing for thousands of years, so almost every ship ...

The end of the Civil War paved the way for some of the freedoms we see in our country today. In this week’s Amazing America 250, we take a trip to Kinston, where a Civil War warship sits in the heart ...

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, 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 ...