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The Union takes over the island of Galveston, Texas, and the Confederates aim to take it back with quite possibly some of the dumbest armored ships the world has ever seen.

SOURCES:

R. Thomas Campbell. Fire Over Texas: Galveston in the Civil War. April 2006. Military Heritage. Volume 7, no. 5

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1983/january/battle-galveston

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/magruder-john-bankhead

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/great-hanging-at-gainesville

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/galveston-battle-of

https://web.archive.org/web/20011115111011/http://history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-ag/bayou-ct.htm