This page is by no means meant to be comprehensive. I will add to it as I come across boats mentioned as having Civil War service or incidents to do with that conflict. My hope is that it may help researchers, just a little.
Articles on Riverboats and the Civil War
Millitary Life and Steamboats
Cotton Clad Gunboat Uncle Ben
Bits and Pieces About Riverboats in the Civil War
Civil War On The Coosa River
Diary of a Confederate Mail Runner
Letters From Three Soldiers
ALONZO CHILD, 1862, May, Southern Troop Transport, Little Rock-Memphis. ALLEGHENY BELL NO. 4, Briefly in U.S. service ALPFRETTA Confederate troop transport on the Coosa River. ARKANSAS, Confederates set on fire to keep from Union troops. ATLANTIC, U.S. troop carrier AUGUSTUS McDOWELL, Was with Gen. Grant's fleet on Tenn. R. BAYOU CITY, Gunboat in Tex. CARRIE, U.S. Supply boat (St. Louis-Ft. Benton) when snagged CHEESMAN (Possibly Chessman? -D 1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman CAYUGA, U.S. gunboat, Gulf of Mex. 1863, March, Mouth of Sabine R., Tex. CHEROKEE Confederate troop transport on the Coosa River. 1. CITY OF MEMPHIS, 1862, Apr, Converted into hospital boat. Took sick and wonded from ft. Donelson to St. Louis, made three trips to Keokuk with wounded, total of 928 soldiers: brought 350 fron Tennessee R. to Cincinnati early May 1862. CITY BELLE, USQMC boat, troop and supply carrier. CLIFTON, 1863, Sept. 1, Galveston, Tex. was Union gunboat. COLONEL LOWELL, Confederate Cotton Clad, June 6, rammed and sunk in battle. CONESTOGA gunboat for Union Navy during Civil War. CONVOY, U.S. Boat during Civil War. CONTINENTAL,1862, impressed into U.S. service as a troop carrier and was in Grant's Tennessee River campaign. 1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman 1864, St. Louis, was as hospital boat. CONVOY NO. 2, U.S.Quarter Master.Division. boat. acquired 1964, Jan. 12. CORA (No. 4), 1861, went to Confederate Registry. COVINGTON, U.S. TINCLAD #?, 1863, Feb. 13, taken over by U.S.. DAN, 1862, Union gunboat, Sabine R., Tex. DE SOTO, Union cotton-clad. DES MOINES U.S. appropriated during Civil War to transport troops and supplies. DE SOTO( the 3rd one)/GENERAL LYON/ALABAMA(the 3rd one) 1862, Apr., Captured by U.S. Forces at Island 10 Miss. R. and made into a tinclad. DIADO Union troop carrier. DIXIE, Confederate Transport DORRANCE, EASTPORT A confederate Ironclad that was captured. Blown up to avoid recapture. Also see - The History and Archaeology of Two Civil War Steamboats: ELIPSE, USQMD ELFIN See Raising the Gunboats. Gunboat EMPERESS, 1862, Impressed into U. S. Service transporting wounded and hosp. supplies. FLETCHER 1865 Lower Ouachita R. and Little River carring troops, corn and other supplies for the Confederacy GENERAL BRAGG, Confederate Cotton-clad GENERAL STERLING PRICE/GENERAL PRICE are same boat GENERAL STERLING PRICE, Confederate tinclad, captured by U.S. to become the GENERAL PRICE, U.S. gunboat GENERAL VAN DORN, Confederate ironclad GRANITE CITY, 1864, May, U.S. Gunboat, Sabine R. Tex. GROSBEAK, U.S.S. Union gunboat HARTFORD Union gunboat, Farragut's flagship HARVEST MOON, Union Gunboat HARRY JOHNSON, Union boat. HAZEL DELL, 1862, Jan. Was Union transport for 2nd Kentucky Regiment, Charleston - Jeffersonville 1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman HENRY CLAY, 1863, Apr. 22, burned and lost while running batteries at Vicksburg J.B. ADAMS, 1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman J.F. CARR, 1863, Confederate cottonclad on Sabine R., Tex. J.M. SHARP, 1860, Dec., enrolled in Confederacy list At New Orleans IDAHAO, chartered to haul U.S. Army supplies. JAMES WATSON, U.S. troop and supply service. JOHN D. PERRY, Union boatJOHN WARNER Union Boat, 1864, May 5, sunk by rebel fire. see Account went to rescue of tinclad # 19 above ft. Donelson where Rebels attacked.. JOHN J. ROE, 1862 Supported Ulysses S. Grant's forces at battle of Shiloh. JOSIAH H. BELL, Went to confederate registry in 1861. Was a gunboat, then a blockade runner. KATE CASSEL, 1863-64, U.S. troop transport KENTON, *1862, Jan. Was Union transport for 2nd Kentucky Regiment, Charleston, W. Va. - Jeffersonville, Ind. KEY WEST No. 3, 1863, Mar. 16 -64, Nov. 4, owned by U.S. Navy as Tinclad #32 KEY WEST No. 4, 1864?, was sold to U.S.. LAURA MOORE Confederate troop transport on the Coosa River. LUMINARY, 1863-5, in U.S. service as troop carier and supply boat. 1863, Apr. 2, MARMORA, *1862, Jan. Was Union transport for 2nd Kentucky Regiment, Charleston, W. Va. - Jeffersonville, Ind. MARY E. FORSYTH, U.S. Transport MARY WILSON, 1862, July 1, Was Southern troop transport, Mobile Bay. MOSES McLELLAN, U.S. supply boat NASHVILLE, At outbreak of war was converted to U.S. Hospital Ship NASHVILLE, U.S. Supplies carrier NAUMKEAG, U.S. service NEVADA, U.S. service, hospital ship. NIAID, TINCLAD #53 OHIO VALLEY, U.S. Navy tinclad #10. OLIVE BRANCH, Union. Carried stores to Randolph and Ft. Pillow during war. PARTHENIA, Impressed into U.S. service. 1863, burned by Rebels. PEOSTA became U.S. Navy TINCLAD #36 PRAIRIE ROSE, *1864, June 4, In U. S. service, was fired into by guerrillas near Waverly Missouri. PETRELL, U.S. tinclad. 1864, Apr. 22, captured and burned by Confederates. RED ROVER, Acrquired by South. Dammaged, taken by North to become hospital ship. RUTH, U.S. boat. 1863, Aug. 4, 6 mi. below Cairo, Ill., was burned by Robert Louden, Confederate spy. She was carring military stores and had 2.6 million in greenbacks in her safe. 30 lives were lost. SACHEM, 1863, Sept. 9 was a captured Union gunboat, Sabine R. Tex. SALLIE LIST 1862, April, Tenn. R., was under command of Union Gen. Wm. T. Sherman. SIGNAL TINCLAD #8, 1862, Sept. 22, bought by U.S. Navy, in escort of JOHN WARNER when fired upon. Red River. ST.CLAIR/TINCLAD #19, U.S. troop/supply carrier. 1863, Apr. 2, was assisted by LUMINARY, above Ft. Donelson where Rebels attacked her. SUNSHINE, 1851, Captured by Confederates for troop transport. 1863, Recaptured by Union. 35TH PARALLEL,1862, Apr 27, Southern troop transport, Little Rock-Memphis. TIGRESS, One of General Grant's dispatch boats. UNCLE BEN, Confederate, cotton clad gunboat, Sabine R. Tx. UNIVERSE,1862, April, Tenn. R., Troop transport under command of Union. WESTFIELD, 1863, Jan. Union gunboat, Galveston Bay, Tex. Gen. Wm. T. Sherman V.F. WILSON, Was one of General Grant's dispatch boat out of Vicksburg. WAVE, 1864, May, Union gunboat, Sabine R. Tex.HERBS FOR HEALTH
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