she accidentally rammed on 8 March 1864 after a confusion in whistle signals, causing the latter ship to sink quickly as a total loss. Accompanying the Red River expedition as far as Alexandria, Louisiana, General Price returned to the mouth of the river on 6 April convoying transports. She then took up regular cruising station on the lower Mississippi River, protecting transports, landing reconnaissance parties, and keeping the river free from Confederate guerrillas. While on this duty, she engaged a Confederate battery off Tunic Bend, Louisiana, on 19 May forced it to withdraw, and landed a shore party which burned the Confederate headquarters. General Price continued her patrol duties between New Orleans, Louisiana and Donaldsonville, Louisiana, until the end of the war. She decommissioned at Mound City, Illinois, on 24 July 1865 and was sold on 3 October 1866 to W. H. Harrison. See also Bibliography of early American naval history References History central Naval History of the Civil War April 1863 Naval History of the Civil War May 1863 Naval History of the Civil WarJune 1863 Naval History of the Civil WarJuly 1863 Cottonclad rams of the Confederate States Navy Paddle steamers Ships built in Cincinnati 1856 ships Shipwrecks of the American Civil War Shipwrecks of the Mississippi River Maritime incidents in June 1862