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Ironclad school to open in Kinston Kinston soon will have a school to train ironclad cadets to serve on the CSS Neuse II.
The School of the Ironclad is being established by the Last Firebase Veterans Archives Project and will train cadets in the skills needed to provide living history demonstration to visitors at the Confederate gunboat replica. Cadet candidates will be required to learn about the American Revolution and the faith of those who founded the United States, as well as the history of the American colonial military and how it evolved into a force that won our nation's independence. After becoming ironclad cadets, maritime history and skills such as knot tying, ship navigation, boat rowing and cutlass and musket use will be introduced. Activities will be conducted as they would have been in the Union and Confederate military during the Civil War. Regional Civil War re-enactors will teach the classes. Open enrollment for the first class of 25 begins June 1. For more information, call (252) 527-0442, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday-Friday. |
