Thanks for the information. The boat was involved in an incident at Bridgeport that my great-grandfather writes of in one of his diaries. His entry is dated July 27, 1863 and his unit was the 7th Miss. inf. Here is what he wrote...

"... I have just returned from the river. I found no boys there. All the detail had gone up the river on the boat. I will tell how it all happened. Our boys had crossed over the river on the boat and the boat was a'wooding and our detail was out in an old field knocking around when some 15 Yankee cavalry dashed up and began to fire at our boys and the boat. They all run and got on the boat and she shoved off and a company of our sharp shooters begun to fire on them pretty tight and they all run off in as big a hurry as they came up. We lost nary a man. One of the sharp shooters got wounded though slightly. We found blood on their retreat though found none killed..."

I have a friend who is a professional artist and I'm hoping to get him to paint or even sketch me a rendering of this action. If it ever gets done I'll post it here.