CSS Texas
CSS Texas was a twin-screw ironclad in an outfitting berth at Richmond which her builders failed to blow up before evacuating the Navy Yard in the Confederate capital on 3 April 1865. Launched about mid-January, Texas was seized by Union forces who moved her to Norfolk Navy Yard, where she was sold 15 October 1867. A sister to Columbia with shortened casemate, she is generally regarded as one of the most valuable hulls ever constructed for the Confederacy.
Part of the text is incorporated from the United States Navy's Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, a work in the public domain.
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