Built in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1863
Stockdale -- a wooden, side-wheel steamer built in 1863 at West Brownsville, Pennsylvania -- was purchased by the Navy on 13 November 1863 at Cincinnati, Ohio, from B. T. Laughlin, et al., under the name J. T. Stockdale, and commissioned at Cairo, Illinois, on 26 December 1863, Acting Ensign John Lowrie in command.
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