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Image ID: ANOL

Credit:

by Bixby (George H.)

Date:

1864

Negative Size:

stereo

Equipment:

flag

Locations & Lines:

Mississippi River

Military Units:

US Navy

Transports:

stern-wheeler; USS Cricket – 6

Sources:

Library of Congress; Naval History and Heritage Command

Library of Congress says: U.S. gunboat Meteor [i.e. Cricket]. Mississippi River Fleet.

Naval History and Heritage Command says: USS Cricket (1863-1865, Tinclad # 6) Tied up at a Western Rivers city, during the last years of the Civil War, with a barge astern and a river steamboat in the distance. Note the identification number (6) painted on her pilothouse.

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