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| | The Cottonclad Gunboat "Uncle Ben" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The only known picture of the "Uncle Ben" was one drawn by a Union war correspondent which later appeared in the "Harper's Weekly" for Oct. 10, 1863, but the pictures outlined almost no details of the vessel. |
 | | Magruder sent the steamers "Josiah H. Bell" and "Uncle Ben" to the Levingston shipyard at Orange, Tx., where they were outfitted as gunboats, a task superintended by Capt. Charles Fowler, the chief of Confederate gunboats in Sabine Lake. |
 | | The loss of the "Uncle Ben" in 1867 was a blow to the Sabine River trade, but other steamboats soon replaced her. |
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