Laurent Millaudon (steamboat)

Laurent Millaudon
History
private
Name	Laurent Millaudon
Launched	1856
Confederate States
Name	CSS General Sterling Price
Commissioned	1861
Fate	Sunk 6 June 1862 at the First Battle of Memphis
USS General Price off Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 18 January 1864
United States
Name	USS General Price
Commissioned	30 September 1862
Decommissioned	24 July 1865
Fate	Sold 3 October 1866 to W. H. Harrison
General characteristics
Displacement	633 tons
Length	182 ft (55 m)
Beam	30 ft (9.1 m)
Draft	9.2 ft (2.8 m)
Propulsion	steam engine
Armor	4-inch oak sheath with a 1-inch iron covering on her bow double pine bulkheads filled with compressed cotton bales

Laurent Millaudon was a wooden side-wheel river steamboat launched at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856 operating in the New Orleans, Louisiana, area, and captained by W. S. Whann. At the beginning of the American Civil War she was taken into service by the Confederate Navy as CSS General Sterling Price. On 6 June 1862, she was sunk at the First Battle of Memphis. She was raised and repaired by the Union army, and on 16 June 1862 was moved into Union service as USS General Price and served until the end of the war.^[1]