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BOAT DESCRIPTION: SidewheelBOAT TYPE: Packet/Hospital boatBUILT: 1857 at Louisville, KentuckyFINAL DISPOSITION: Sold to A.M. Carpenter on November 29, 1865; never ran againOWNERS: Confederates; U.S.OFFICERS & CREW: Captain W. Strong (1860)RIVERS: Missouri River; Mississippi RiverOTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4701; As a packet she ran Nashville-New Orleans, teamed up with the James Johnson and the James Woods in 1860. She was called "Fife Major's boat". On November 7, 1861 she was acquired by the Confederates, serving at Columbus, Kentucky and then at Island 10. She was hit by a shell at Island 10 and taken ashore and tied. After the Carondelet ran the batteries and U.S. forces had taken Island 10, the Red Rover was discovered moored to the Tennessee shore. She and three other steamers were taken by the U.S. Mechanics from the Mound City repaired the Red Rover and later at St. Louis she was made into a hospital boat. She received bathrooms, laundry, two kitchens, a 300-ton ice box, gauze blinds on the windows, operating room, elevator from main to cabin deck, bedding, furniture, sanitary stores, and a medical dispensary. Her first job as a hospital boat was to go to the aid of the Mound City which had been hit by a shell at St. Charles, Arkansas; man

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