From Wikipedia.
After the CSS Queen of the West and CSS Webb forced the surrender of the USS Indianola on the Mississippi River below Vicksburg on February 24, 1863, her Confederate career did not end.
On April 11, 1863, she was attacked on the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana by the Union ships USS Estrella, USS Calhoun and USS Arizona.
A shell from the Calhoun set fire to the Queen of the West's cotton and her burning wreck drifted down the river for several hours before she grounded and exploded.
Ninety members of the Confederate crew were captured and 26 killed.
--Old B-R'er
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