Tag: steamboat El Cid

Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868 says: EL CID; steamer; 679 tons. Chartered Dec 7, 1863-Aug 5, 1864; Aug 8, 1864-June 3, 1865. 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.