This is the story of the Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle, and it's ultimate demise.
Sources (Put together by Dustin)
https://portoplymouthmuseum.org/about-port-o-plymouth-museum/the-css-albemarle/
https://www.historynet.com/css-albemarle-confederate-ironclad-in-the-american-civil-war/
https://www.marinersmuseum.org/2020/05/cornfield-ironclad-css-albemarle-emerges/
https://www.marinersmuseum.org/2020/06/battle-of-albemarle-sound-css-albemarle-remains-
defiant/
https://www.marinersmuseum.org/2020/06/without-fear-the-loss-of-css-albemarle/
https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/edward-j-houghton
https://www.nps.gov/vick/learn/historyculture/city-class-ironclads.htm
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-
alphabetically/d/destruction-of-css-albemarle-report-of-lieutenant-william-barker-cushing.html
https://archive.org/details/abrahamlincolnba03newy/page/n385/mode/2up (p. 432-439)
https://archive.org/details/navalhistcivilwar00portrich/page/478/mode/2up (p. 478)
https://psu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?bookMark=eNrjYmDJy89LZWHgNDQwMd
M1srC05GDgKi7OMjAwNDKxsORkEPDMS0stykvMUfBNTM7IzEvlYWApKSpN5YVQ3Awabq4hzh6
6BUX5haWpxSXxuZnFyak5OYl5qfmlxfFGxgZm5uYWhpaWxiQoBQD69Su0
