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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Medal
Sidewheel Steamer:
Built at New Orleans, LA., in 1861, as a ferry or towboat
Converted to a warship on the ways by John Hughes and Co.
In January 1862 she was taken up the Mississippi River to Columbus, Ky., to be fitted for service
During much of 1862 she operated in the vicinity of Island No. 10, with CDR.. R. F. Pinkney, CSN, in command
Livingston formed part of the flotilla, at one time numbering 17 vessels, under command of Brig. Gen. M. Lovell, CSA.
She ascended the Yazoo River in Mississippi where she was burned by the Confederates on 26 June 1862 to prevent capture
Midshipman James M. Morgan, CSN, who served in her described her as follows:
"There had also been built (from designs by a locomotive roundhouse architect, I suppose) the most wonderful contraption that was ever seen afloat, called the
Livingston; she carried 6 guns, 3 for'd and 3 abaft the paddle boxes, and she was almost circular in shape. She was so slow that her crew facetiously complained that
when she was going downstream at full speed they could not sleep on account of the drift logs catching up with her and bumping against the stern."
Specifications:
Displacement unknown
Length 180'
Beam 40'
Draft unknown
Depth of Hold 9'6"
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Armament
two 30-pdr rifles
four shell guns
Propulsion steam
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