CS Bayou City

C.S. Bayou City captures the USS Harriet Lane during the Battle of Galveston.

C.S. Army Gunboat Bayou City (1861–1865) was a 165-foot side-wheel steamboat built for commercial use at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1859.

Serving as a mail boat between Galveston and Houston, Texas, the ship was chartered on 26 September 1861 by Comdr. W. Hunter, CSN, commanding the Texas Marine Department, from the Houston Navigation Co.[1]

  1. ^ "Bayou City". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Retrieved 17 June 2010.