Era No. 5
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Era No. 5 — a shallow-draft steamer built in 1860 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — was chartered by the Confederates early in 1863 to transport corn from the Red River to Camden, Arkansas.
As the steamer — laden with 4,500 bushels of corn — proceeded to her destination on 14 February 1863, she rounded a sharp bend Script error: No such module "convert". above the mouth of the Black River, came upon and was captured by the USS Queen of the West.[1] After Queen of the West was lost the same day, her crew fled to Union positions in the Era No.5.[2] Era No. 5 was then assigned to Colonel Charles R. Ellet's river fleet, fitted out with protective cotton baling and used by the Union as a dispatch boat and transport in the Mississippi River.
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- ↑ Queen of the West in DANFS.
- ↑ Spencer Tucker, Blue and Gray Navies: the Civil War Afloat, Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006. Template:ISBN, p.223
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