The Eclipse was a river steamboat of the United States. Her boilers exploded on the Tennessee River at Johnsonville, near Paducah, Kentucky, on January 27, 1865, resulting in 38 killed. The deaths and severe injuries resulting from the explosion essentially wiped out a U.S. Army unit, the 9th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery.
There were at least 13 American steamboats that were called Eclipse.
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References
- Ullrich, Dieter (2020). "The Explosion of the Steamer Eclipse". West Tennessee Historical Society Papers. Faculty Research at Morehead State University. 74: 54–72.
- Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts of Military and Other Events, Month by Month. McFarland. 2014-01-10. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-7864-8567-3.
- "THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST.; Steamboat Explosion and Loss of Life Capture of a Band of River Depredators. Railroad Accident". The New York Times. 1865-01-30. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
- Gudmestad, Robert (Fall 2012). "A History of the Steamboat Eclipse". Ohio Valley History. 12 (3): 21–42. Project MUSE 571613.
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