Tag: side-wheeler Hudson

A steam barquentine, photographed at Alexandria Virginia in December of 1863.

Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868 says: HUDSON; sidewheel steamer; 761 tons. Chartered Oct 28, 1863, for unknown period. Purchased by Quartermaster Department on Jan 1, 1865, at New York; cost of vessel $80,000. One of 99 vessels engaged in the supply of Sherman’s army after it reached the sea at Savannah, Georgia, in Dec of 1864, and later during the Carolina campaign of early 1865.