Operating As A Confederate Transport
Alfred Robb — a wooden-hulled, stern-wheel steamboat built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1860 — operated on the Ohio River and the other navigable streams of the Mississippi watershed system until acquired by the Confederate Government at some now-unknown date during the first year of the Civil War for use as a transport.
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