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The National Park Service (NPS) was formed on August 25, 1916, and
is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many
national monuments, and other conservation and historical
properties with various title designations. The National Park
Service publishes various reports and documents each year about
environmental issues, park safety, and specific parks around the
country. These publications include titles like: Vegetation of
Shark Slough, Everglades National Park, Status of Woody Species in
Big Cyprus National Preserve, and The Nest Environment of the
American Crocodile.
For 11 years, I was closely associated with the Cairo project, and
I know how difficult it is to place the undertaking in its proper
perspective and to dispassionately evaluate its historical
significance. I was accordingly delighted to learn that Virgil
Carrington Jones, who needs no introduction to readers interested
in Civil War partisan operations and action afloat, had agreed to
chronicle the story of the Cairo and her rendezvous with destiny on
the Yazoo in December 1862; and that Harold L. Peterson, whose
publications on arms and armament are legion, would survey,
describe, and evaluate the thousands of artifacts recovered. Jones
and Peterson, as the readers of this booklet will discover, have
written of the Cairo and her treasure trove of artifacts with keen
insight and understanding. Their accounts will spark the reader's
interest, and, in conjunction with the salvaged objects themselves,
lead to a better understanding of how bluejackets lived and fought
in our Civil War. Edwin C. Bearss Chief Historian National Park
Service
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