Steamboat: Louisville and Memphis Packet, U. S. Mail, Des Arc [graphic]. 1864.

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Gillet, Orville, 1832-1914. Steamboat: Louisville and Memphis Packet, U. S. Mail, Des Arc [graphic].

Steamboat: Louisville and Memphis Packet, U. S. Mail, Des Arc [graphic]. 1864.

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According to STEAMBOATS AND FERRIES ON WHITE RIVER: A HERITAGE REVISITED, by Duane Huddleston, Sammie Rose and Pat Wood (Conway, Ark.: UCA Press; 1995), this is the "steamboat DES ARC on fire near De Valls Bluff during the Civil War. GUNBOAT 25 is hovering nearby. DEC ARC was 200' long and 30' wide and one of the superb White Rive steamboats. Her construction was started in 1860 at Paducah by A. L. Davis, who failed to complete her. Capt. Hicks King finished the job. She arrived at Memphis in late 1862, but the war prevented her entering the White River then, so she ran in the Louisville and Memphis trade. She was later brought to the White River where she partially burnt. She was rebuilt at a cost of $50,000 and placed in the Vicksburg trade until 1866, then was bought by Martin and R. P. Walt for White River. They sold her to the Elliots, who ran her in White River until she was dismantled in 1871."

1 negative : b&w 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.)

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