Gunboat Eastport

Ironclad gunboat Eastport, a Union warship anchored in the Mississippi River at Helena (Phillips County); 1864.

Large iron boat with chimneys flagpoles and sailors viewed across wall of floating barrels.

Courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives

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