{"id":1269,"date":"2013-12-08T09:38:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T14:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:52:12","slug":"new-york-times-disunion-pook-turtles-armorclads-and-the-civil-war-on-the-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"New York Times &#8220;Disunion&#8221;: Pook Turtles, Armorclads and the Civil War on the Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/07\/pook-turtles-armorclads-and-the-civil-war-on-the-rivers\/?_r=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1270 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 4px 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/07disunion-ironclad-blog427-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"07disunion-ironclad-blog427\" width=\"180\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/07disunion-ironclad-blog427-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/07disunion-ironclad-blog427.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Pook Turtles, Armorclads and the Civil War on the Rivers&#8221;, my fourth piece for the New York Times &#8220;Disunion&#8221; feature, deals with the ironclads on the western rivers.\u00a0 Little know, these warships truly helped shorten the war <!--more-->by working in conjunction with the Army to retake and control the Mississippi river and her tributaries.<\/p>\n<p>The direct link to this piece on the New York Times website * can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/07\/pook-turtles-armorclads-and-the-civil-war-on-the-rivers\/?_r=0\">HERE<\/a>.\u00a0 Links to the rest of my NYT pieces and my other writing information is on my website <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?page_id=10317\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pook Turtles, Armorclads and the Civil War on the Rivers&#8221;, my fourth piece for the New York Times &#8220;Disunion&#8221; feature, deals with the ironclads on the western rivers.\u00a0 Little know, these warships truly helped shorten the war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-ironclads-and-gunboats","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pha1lg-kt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10806,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/10806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}