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PS ''Alice Dean'', which had a capacity of 411 tons, was a side-wheel, wooden-hulled packet steamer. It was launched from Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1863, running a scheduled route between Cincinnati and Memphis, Tennessee. Its captain was James H. Pepper. In June 1863 the Alice Dean served as a Union troop transport, carrying Federal forces from Memphis to join General Ulysses Grant's siege of Vicksburg.〔Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (German language edition), New York, 27 June 1863〕 In July of that year, Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan and his cavalry undertook a large scale raid from Tennessee through Kentucky and then across Indiana and Ohio. While crossing the Ohio River into Indiana at Brandenburg, Kentucky, the raiders captured the ''Alice Dean''. Using the ''Alice Dean'' as a ferry, Morgan's troops were transported to Morvin's Landing, near Mauckport, Indiana. Morgan's Raiders had already appropriated a small packet named ''John T. McCombs'' and used her as a decoy to hail down and capture the ''Alice Dean''. After using the two boats for their purposes, Morgan's men burned the ''Alice Dean''. The ''McCombs'' was spared because its owner/captain was a friend of Morgan's second-in-command, Basil W. Duke. The machinery was salvaged in the fall of 1863 and auctioned off to the C.T. Dumont Co. for $4,500. Part of the ''Alice Dean'' is on display at the Battle of Corydon battlefield.〔(Riverboat Dave's: Riverboats Starting With A )〕 A towboat accident at Leavenworth, Indiana in August 1959 caused the water of the Ohio River to drop five feet, which exposed the hull of the ''Alice Dean''. Local history buff took pieces of wood as plaques to commemorate the raid.〔Ramage, Jame. ''Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan'' (University Press of Kentucky, 1995) p.257〕 Associated with this affair was "Sherman's Ride," in which a self-appointed Paul Revere, Jacob Sherman, mounted a horse and galloped upriver to head off the down-bound ''Grey Eagle'' to prevent her from falling into the hands of Morgan. He succeeded. The grateful owners of the ''Grey Eagle'' presented a bell to the citizens of Mauckport in appreciation, and it still is there.〔''S&D Reflector'', June 1976〕 Following the loss of ''Alice Dean'', a second steamboat with the same name was built to replace her. ==See also== * PS ''Alice Dean'' (1864) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PS Alice Dean (1863)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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