September 2011
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Historical Nonfiction: Eliza Battle: Steamship, Pleasureboat, and Grave →
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Launched in Indiana in 1852, the Eliza Battle was a luxury wooden-hulled paddle steamer. It was regularly used to entertain Presidents and other VIPs. Disaster struck on a cold night in February 1858, when the steamer navigated the Tombigbee. A fire started on cotton bales on the main…