KINSTON, NC (WECT) - Most people are aware of the many ground battles that took place between 1861 and 1865, but both the Union and Confederate armies had a variety of naval warships. Before the war ...

KINSTON, N.C. (AP) – Rarely seen artifacts such as a shipping crate for U.S. muskets will go on view as part of a new exhibit at the CSS Civil War Interpretative Center in Kinston. The exhibit titled ...

KINSTON, N.C. (WNCT) – “We house the only remaining commissioned Confederate Ironclad above water,” noted Matthew Young, site manager for the CSS Neuse Interpretive Center in Kinston. Sitting at 158 ...

KINSTON —The remnants of the Confederate ironclad CSS Neuse sit in a climate-controlled facility in downtown Kinston, a far cry from the bottom of the Neuse River. How it got there is explained in a ...

This week, an archaeological team is expected to set out to see if they can find remains of the CSS Neuse, a battleship that met a watery grave near Kinston, NC, during the Civil War. Now, many of you ...

Matthew Young’s love of ships, the navy and the Civil War as well as his desire to preserve history while making these available to the public has led him on a four-year questto make the CSS Neuse ...

In the waning months of the Civil War, a young gunner from Virginia floated outside Kinston aboard the CSS Neuse, lamenting the cold, mourning the rebel cause and writing love-struck tributes to a ...

Using her talent as an artist, Natalie Dail has written herself into the long history of the Civil War gunboat CSS Neuse. The South Lenoir High School senior won a contest sponsored by the CSS Neuse ...

Calling all Civil War history buffs and lovers of all things nautical: The CSS Neuse Center in downtown Kinston will be hosting a program Saturday that will teach visitors the skills needed, and ...

“Heirlooms, Antiques, and Militaria” is a free program aimed to answer questions about family trinkets. “We wanted to do something like “Antiques Roadshow” said CSS Neuse Site Manager Matthew Young in ...

The CSS Neuse Civil War Museum opened to the public on Saturday with limited capacity after being closed for almost six months amid the COVID-19 pandemic. With new procedures in place, the museum ...