Lizzie Simmons

According to Way's, #3542 a sidewheel wooden hull packet 454 tons. 204 x 36.5 x 6.5. Ran New Orleans-Ouachita River, Capt. George Hamilton Kirk in 1860. In 1862 NO-Memphis, Capt. W.B.Richardson, with W.C.Porter, clerk. Team up with the Mary E Keene in tha trade. Converted into a gunboat by the Rebels and renamed Pontchartrain. She was destroyed at Little Rock Sept. 10, 1863 by the US gunboat General Price.
Sorry it doesn't give a description, but maybe you can find more under the other boat names.

Here is what I have on Lizzie Simmons. If you have questions about any of it, please ask. To date I have found no drawings or physical descriptions of her.

LIZZIE SIMMONS
OrELIZA SIMMONS, renamed CSS PONTCHARTRAIN
SW p, 154 or 454 (?) tons, 204x36.5x6.5. Blt. 1859, New Albany, Ind. First homeport NO. On Red R. '59-'63. Operating NO-Ouachita R.'60. Arr. NO from Grand Lake landings, ca. Sep '60. Adv. for Ouachita & Black R.s, '60. Ad. in French. NO-Memphis teamed w/ MARY E. KEENE, '62. Memphis-NO packet '62. Purchased by CS at NO, 12 Oct '61 or '62 (probable) Converted to CS gunboat and renamed CSN PONTCHARTRAIN, commissioned Mar
'62. 7 guns, at least 2- 32 pdr rifle. 10' draft w’ armor and guns. Served on Miss., Red & White Rivers. Capt. & crew captured w/ army at St. Charles, Ark. 17 Jun '62. Laid up until following summer. Continued to operate on Red R. until destroyed in Oct '63. Destroyed to prevent capture, Oct '63 or burned opposite Little Rock, Ark. by USS GEN. PRICE , 10 Sep '63 or 9 Oct '63.
Masters: Ashbury , Geo. H. Kirk, W. B. Richardson, Lt. J. W. Dunnington CSN.

Reference sources: "Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1994" Nos. W3542, W4546. , Revised Edition, Dictionary of American Navy Fighting Ships, “Mississippi River Gunboats of the American Civil War 1861-65”, "Steamboats on Louisana's Bayous, A History and Directory", "Advertisements of Lower Mississippi River Steamers, 1812-1920", Index to the “Wooldridge Steamboat List,” “Steamboats on Red River: A History of Waterborne Commerce and an Assessment of Steamboat Losses along the Red River, Louisiana and Arkansas”, “Encyclopedia of American Shipwrecks”, “Fifty Years on the Mississippi”

Will Stevens;17116 wrote: I am looking for a picture, drawing, blueprint and/or physical description of a sidewheeler named the "Lizzie Simmons". She was built in New Albany, Indiana in 1859. I have her dimensions, but I don't have much concerning what she actually looked like. Can anyone help?

I have located an image of the vessel! Thanks to those who replied to my thread.

Is it possible to share the image with us?

Lizzie Simmons Image

Will Stevens;17116 wrote: I am looking for a picture, drawing, blueprint and/or physical description of a sidewheeler named the "Lizzie Simmons". She was built in New Albany, Indiana in 1859. I have her dimensions, but I don't have much concerning what she actually looked like. Can anyone help?

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Lizzie Simmons Drawing

I have attached a copy of the image I found of the Lizzie Simmons. The image comes from a bill of fare that was located in the archives of the Ohio Historical Society.