Confederate Navy Yard

The yard ended in a Union river campaign. In May 1863 a flotilla pushed up the Yazoo, and the gunboat Baron DeKalb, in the force there from May 20 to 23, is recorded as helping to destroy the works. She did not leave unscathed. On July 13, 1863, about a mile below Yazoo City, DeKalb struck a Confederate mine, then called a torpedo, and sank. Vicksburg had fallen on July 4, yet the river was still being fought over, and the Yazoo remained a passage both sides contested.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — 1.6 mi
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.
• Blue Front Cafe — 14 mi
  A cinder-block juke joint in Bentonia, opened in 1948 by Carey and Mary Holmes, home of the Bentonia school of blues and a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail.
• Delta National Forest — 21 mi
  The only bottomland hardwood forest in the national forest system, some 60,000 acres of oak, ash and cypress in Sharkey County, run with the state as Sunflower Wildlife Management Area.

More markers nearby

• Starling-Wilburn House — 0.7 mi
• C.S.S. Arkansas — 1.2 mi
• The Oakes House — 1.3 mi
• Bethel A.M.E. Church — 1.4 mi