side-wheeler Planter

Photographed at White House Landing VA, in May of 1864 and City Point, VA 1864-1865.

Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868 says: PLANTER; steamer; 386 tons. Chartered Jan ?, 1862, for unknown period; Feb ? 1862, for unknown period; July ?, 1862, for unknown period; Aug 15, 1862-Mar 12 1863; Apr 21, 1864-June 12, 1865. Used as hospital ship and medical supply vessel during Grant’s drive on Richmond, May 1864.