Tag: side-wheeler Westmoreland

Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868 says: WESTMORELAND; sidewheel steamer; 301 tons; 350 tons. Purchased or built by the Quartermaster Department on July 30, 1864, at New York City; cost of vessel $27,000. Record indicates vessel was owned by the United States on Oct 15, 1864.