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 ...

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 ...

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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, N.C. (WNCT) – At the corner of Gordon and Heritage Streets in downtown Kinston lies something extraordinary. “It’s the only full-scale replica of an ironclad in the world. We’ve got people ...

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 ...

Calling all Civil War history buffs and lovers of all things nautical: The CSS Neuse Center in downtown Kinston will be hosting a program Saturday that will teach visitors the skills needed, and ...

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 ...

Teachers now have the opportunity to bring more eastern Carolina history into the classroom. Lenoir County history teachers swapped places with their students for a day to learn from the CSS Neuse ...

“Heirlooms, Antiques, and Militaria” is a free program aimed to answer questions about family trinkets. “We wanted to do something like “Antiques Roadshow” said CSS Neuse Site Manager Matthew Young in ...