 Casemate ironclad

The casemate ironclad was a type of iron or iron-armored gunboat briefly used in the American Civil War by both the Confederate States Navy and its adversary, the Union Navy.Compared to the turreted ironclad warships that became standard, the casemate ironclad did not have its individual (often paired) cannons encased in a separate armored gun deck/turret, but instead had a single (often sloped) casemate structure, or armored citadel, on the main deck housing the entire gun battery.