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NH 74054 Steamship Planter (1860-1876)

Photo #: NH 74054 Steamship Planter (1860-1876)
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Title: Steamship Planter (1860-1876)
Description: Loaded with 1000 bales of cotton, at Georgetown, South Carolina, probably in 1860-61 or 1866-76. She was a side-wheel steamer, built at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860. In Confederate Army service in 1861-62, she was turned over to the Federals by her pilot, Robert Smalls, on 13 May 1862 and served in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army before returning to commercial use in 1866. Courtesy of E.D. Sloan, Jr., 1971. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 74054
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