Tag: side-wheeler General Hooker

Photographed at Port Royal, VA at the end of May, 1864.

Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868 says: GENERAL HOOKER; sidewheel steamer; 226 tons. Chartered Apr 22, 1864-Nov 14, 1865. In mid 1864 was supporting Grant on the James River. Was assigned to the Department of the South as reported Feb. of 1865. One of 99 vessels engaged in the supply of Sherman’s army after reached the sea at Savannah, Georgia, in Dec of 1864, and later during the Carolina campaign of early 1865.