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• The “City of Louisiana”: A Floating Hospital in the Civil War

  

  By Gregg Andrews In 1857, the St. Louis and Keokuk Packet Line added the City of Louisiana, a sidewheel steamboat, to its growing fleet on the Upper Mississippi. Built expressly for passengers rather than freight, and named for the town of Louisiana, Missouri, the boat’s hull was built in Madison, Indiana, and towed to St.…

  Gregg Andrews

  April 7, 2025

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  Civil War Hospitals, civil-war, history, St. Louis and Keokuk Packet Company, Steamboats, Western Sanitary Commission