The coastal merchant steamer <i>Calhoun</i>, built in New York in 1851. Briefly employed by the Confederacy as a privateer and blockade runner during the American Civil War, <i>Calhoun</i> was captured by the Union in 1862 and commissioned as the gunboat USS <i>Calhoun</i>. From 1864, the vessel served as the US Army transport <i>General Sedgewick</i>, before returning to merchant service under the name <i>Calhoun</i> in 1866.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:James_Bard" class="extiw" title="w:en:James Bard"><span title="American marine artist (1815-1897)">James Bard</span></a>
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Anthony J. Peluso Jr.; The Mariners' Museum (1997). <i>The Bard Brothers: Painting America Under Steam and Sail</i>. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated. p. 67.