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24/12/2014 2:58 pm
I found some interesting reading about steamboating on Arkansas' White River, and wanted to share the link:
Life in the Leatherwoods, by John Q. Wolf
25/12/2014 3:08 pm
Thanks, Steve! I have some friends at home who will be interested in this, too.
04/02/2015 1:37 am
White River during the Civil War
Thanks for the White River link. John Quincy Wolf, Sr wrote an interesting local history of river transportation on the White River. Born in 1864, he lived through much of the time he wrote about. I find those accounts fascinating.
Missing unfortunately was the river traffic during the Civil War. There was at least one incursion by Union steamboats in Jan 1863.
An array of 30 steamboats transported 18K troops from Helena or Napolean. Finding no fight the fleet returned to Vicksburg for the purpose of another attack.
Fran Nash