From Wikipedia.
One of the sources I used for research on the Leeds Foundry in New Orleans, said that this foundry was going to be used for the two Confederate ironclads at New Orleans, the CSS Louisiana and the CSS Mississippi. I was writing about the Leeds Foundry in my Saw the Elephant: Civil War blog in connection with cannons they produced for the Confederate Army.
The CSS Mississippi was a projected Confederate ironclad. Her design was unusual as she was to be built according to house-building techniques. Whether this would have worked or not was never proven as she was not complete when New Orleans fell to Union ships under Flag Officer David G. Farragut on 25 April 1862.
Rather than let her fall into Union hands, Captain Arthur Sinclair, CSN, ordered her to be hastily launched and burned.
Despite the delays in construction that left her unfinished and untried, her mere existence, together with that of the CSS Louisiana, raised hopes of the Confederate defenders of New Orleans. For the Union, it caused unfounded fears.
--Old B-Runner
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