The Eclipse was a river steamboat of the United States. Her boilers exploded on the Tennessee River at Johnsonville, near Paducah, Kentucky, on January 27, 1865, resulting in 38 killed.[1] The deaths and severe injuries resulting from the explosion essentially wiped out a U.S. Army unit, the 9th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery.[2][3]
There were at least 13 American steamboats that were called Eclipse.[4]
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References
- ^ Ullrich, Dieter (2020). "The Explosion of the Steamer Eclipse". West Tennessee Historical Society Papers. Faculty Research at Morehead State University. 74: 54–72.
- ^ Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts of Military and Other Events, Month by Month. McFarland. 2014-01-10. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-7864-8567-3.
- ^ "THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST.; Steamboat Explosion and Loss of Life Capture of a Band of River Depredators. Railroad Accident". The New York Times. 1865-01-30. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
- ^ Gudmestad, Robert (Fall 2012). "A History of the Steamboat Eclipse". Ohio Valley History. 12 (3): 21–42. Project MUSE 571613.