General Sterling Price engaged a Confederate battery which had fired on transport steamer Mississippi near Ratliff's Landing, Mississippi. Lafayette and General Bragg converged upon the battery, and the three heavy steamers forced the Confederate gunners back from the river, enabling the transport to proceed. After the war, Lafayette'' decommissioned on 23 July 1865 and was laid up at New Orleans until sold there on 28 March 1866. See also Seth Ledyard Phelps (commander in Mississippi River Squadron) References Steamships of the United States Navy Ships built in St. Louis Ships of the Union Navy 1862 ships