Service With The Confederacy
Tom Sugg -- a wooden-hulled side-wheel steamer built in 1860 at Cincinnati, Ohio -- was outfitted as a side-wheel gunboat and served under the name Tom Sugg. She operated as a merchant river boat in Arkansas on the White River carrying cotton and general cargo. After the outbreak of the Civil War, she transported arms and horses for Confederate troops near the White River.
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