Purchased At Cincinnati, Ohio
Prairie Bird, a” tinclad” wooden steamer purchased as Mary Miller at Cincinnati, Ohio, 19 December 1862, was fitted out at Cairo, Illinois, renamed Prairie Bird and commissioned in January 1863, Acting Master J. C. Moore in command.
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