side-wheeler Wauhatchie

Photographed at Chattanooga, 1863-1864.

Gibson and Gibson, Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868 says: WAUHATCHIE; 3rd class sidewheel steamer; 59 ton; 89 tons. Built by Quartermaster Department in Bridgeport, Alabama, at a cost of $9,000. Located at Chattanooga as of June 30, 1865; condition rated as good.