Built in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1863
Cricket No. 4 -- a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamer built in 1863 at Cincinnati, Ohio -- was purchased there by the Union Navy from Stephen Morse et al. on 23 January 1864. Renamed Tallahatchie on 26 January and designated "tinclad gunboat no. 46," the sidewheeler was held at Cincinnati for a fortnight by ice in the Ohio River before she could be moved downstream to Cairo, Illinois, to be fitted out and lightly armored.
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