Tag: side-wheeler White Cloud

Photographed at Vicksburg, MS in February of 1864.

Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868 says: WHITE CLOUD; sidewheel steamer; 345 tons; 380 tons. Chartered Feb 19-22, 1862. Expedition to Fort Donelson; transported prisoners, Mar 1862. Expedition to Pittsurg Landing – Shiloh, Apr 1862. Utilized on White River expedition in June of 1862. Chartered Oct 1-13, 1862; Nov 13-Dec 23, 1862; Mar 3-5, 1863; Aug17-Sept 3, 1863; Mar 9-13, 1864; Mar 23-Apr 6, 1864. Pressed Apr 15-19, 1864. Chartered May 28-30, 1864. Pressed June 1-July 6, 1864. Participated in expedition against Marmaduke in June 1864. Pressed July 15-Oct 31, 1864.