Hispanopedia WikiPS Alice Dean, which had a capacity of 880 tons, was a side-wheel, wooden-hulled packet steamer. It was launched from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, in 1863, running a scheduled route between Cincinnati and Memphis, Tennessee. Its captain was James H. Pepper.
In June 1863 the Alice Dean served as a Union troop transport, carrying Federal forces from Memphis to join General Ulysses Grant's siege of Vicksburg.[1] In July of that year, Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and his cavalry undertook a large scale raid from Tennessee through Kentucky and then across Indiana and Ohio. While crossing the Ohio River into Indiana at Brandenburg, Kentucky, the raiders captured the Alice Dean. Using the Alice Dean as a ferry, Morgan's troops were transported to Morvin's Landing, near Mauckport, Indiana. Morgan's Raiders had already appropriated a small packet named John T. McCombs and used her as a decoy to hail down and capture the Alice Dean. After using the two boats for their purposes, Morgan's men burned the Alice Dean. The McCombs was spared because its owner/captain was a friend of Morgan's second-in-command, Basil W. Duke. The machinery was salvaged in the fall of 1863 and auctioned off to the C.T. Dumont Co. for $4,500. Part of the Alice Dean is on display at the Battle of Corydon battlefield.[2]
A towboat accident at Leavenworth, Indiana in August 1959 caused the water of the Ohio River to drop five feet, which exposed the hull of the Alice Dean. Local history buff took pieces of wood as plaques to commemorate the raid.[3]
En 1965, el Club Cívico de Heth hizo una colecta y sobornó a un contratista local para que trasladara su grúa al lugar donde se encontraba el Alice Dean en un intento de recuperar el barco. El barco fue atacado y se recuperaron varios camiones cargados de madera. Existe un video poco común de la expedición.
Este asunto estuvo asociado con el "Sherman's Ride", en el que un autoproclamado Paul Revere , Jacob Sherman, montó a caballo y galopó río arriba para interceptar al Grey Eagle que se dirigía hacia abajo y evitar que cayera en manos de Morgan. Lo logró. Los agradecidos propietarios del Grey Eagle obsequiaron una campana a los ciudadanos de Mauckport en agradecimiento, y todavía está allí. [4]
Tras la pérdida del Alice Dean , se construyó un segundo barco de vapor con el mismo nombre para reemplazarla.
Véase también
Referencias
- ^ Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (edición en alemán), Nueva York, 27 de junio de 1863
- ^ Riverboat Dave's: Barcos fluviales que comienzan con A
- ^ Ramage, Jame. Rebel Raider: La vida del general John Hunt Morgan (University Press of Kentucky, 1995) p.257
- ^ Reflector S&D , junio de 1976
