USS Indianola Epilogue

From Wikipedia.

The USS Indianola was built in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1862 and commissioned September 27, 1862.  It was a 174 or 175 foot casemate ironclad mounting 2 eleven-inch Dahlgren smoothbores and 2 nine-inch Dahlgren smoothbores. 

After the Black Terror frightened off the CSS Queen of the West, the Confederates aboard the Indianola trying to raise it might have been intoxicated and threw the nine-inch guns into the river and pointed the eleven-inch ones at each other muzzle-to-muzzle and fired them and then burned the rest of the ship to the waterline.

The remains of the Indianola were raised  on January 5, 1865, and she was towed to Mound City, Illinois, where the remains were sold on January 17.

--Old B-R'er