When a Union gunboat anchored off Greenville, Mississippi in December 1863, nobody imagined what would happen next. In just 48 hours, an entire thriving river town vanished—every building, every home, every church reduced to ash. But this wasn't a battle. It was something far more disturbing.
Lieutenant Commander Thomas McElroy's actions that winter revealed a dark truth about warfare: the lines between military necessity and personal vengeance can disappear entirely when authority goes unchecked. What happened to Greenville's 800 residents wasn't collateral damage. It was systematic. Deliberate. And completely unauthorized.
This investigation uncovers the shocking reality of how a single naval officer's decision erased a Mississippi community from the map, and why the truth was buried for over a century.
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SOURCES & FURTHER READING:
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies
Mississippi River Squadron Reports, 1863-1865
Washington County Historical Archives
Confederate Testimony Collections
Naval Court of Inquiry Records, 1864
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