Tag: side-wheeler New York

Library of Congress says: Federal flag-of-truce boat NEW YORK.

Photographed at Aiken’s Landing, VA, 1864-1865.

Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868 says: NEW YORK; steamer; 995 tons; 1200 tons. Chartered Dec 12, 1861-Mar 10, 1862; July 2, 1862-May 11, 1865. According to Heyl, she spent most of her time at Fortress Monroe being utilized as a POW exchange ship and for the carriage of mail on the James River.