Photo. Steamer, John B. Smith (formerly the U.S.E.D. Alabama, and Burke Line, Capitol) turning into the mouth of the Tennessee River, from the Ohio, 1939.
The Joe Wheeler was built in 1898 at Chattanooga, Tennessee and spent most of her life on the Upper Tennessee River. Her dimensions were:- 155.8 x 33.5 x 3.5 feet. Tonnage: gross and net, 192 tons. In 1902 she was owned by the Tennessee River Navigation Company: W. C. Wilkie was the manager. They also ran the N. B. Forrest, Gasconade and Sam Davis. The Joe Wheeler was the last packet to run out
at Clifton, Tennessee, on the Tennessee River, she was totally destroyed by fire on February 20, 1903. The fire started near the forward main stairway from some unknown cause. She was valued at $30,000. Ascending the Mississippi River she struck a hidden obstruction on September 23, 1901, and sunk in 9 feet of water. She was raised and repaired; cost, $3,500. Damage to cargo, $4,000.
Printed at Kennedys Franklin House, Third Street Opposite the Post Office, 1851. Chart of distances broken down by river and tributary. "This Chart has been the result of much labor, time and trouble, and is confidently presented to the public as containing the most correct River Distances yet published. It has been carefully compiled from Congressional Documents, and other reliable sources. The
Commissary store boats. Landing cannon. Interior of a sanitary steamer. The general hospital at Hamburg. Moving siege guns to our lines., From Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.