![]() David Dixon Porter ordered New Era to take on board, from Baron de Kalb and Cincinnati, men wounded during the expedition for transportation to a hospital ship at the mouth of the White River then to proceed to Island No. William Tecumseh Sherman, to capture Fort Hindman. On 3 January 1863 she headed downstream again and the next day, with ten other Union gunboats, got underway up the White River in Arkansas, with Union army troops under Gen. When the threat subsided, she returned to Cairo, Illinois. Confederate possession of Columbus would have seriously disrupted the flow of supplies to the Union fleet and troops then operating against Vicksburg, Mississippi. New Era arrived off Columbus, Kentucky, 24 December 1862 to support the Union army garrison there threatened by a large Confederate force. Louis, Missouri, in December 1862, with Acting Master Frank W. ![]() New Era, a wooden stern-wheel steamer built at Wellsville, Ohio, in 1862, operated on the Ohio River out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until purchased by the Navy at Cincinnati, Ohio, 27 October 1862. New Era was also a name initially carried (until 1861) by a timberclad (later ironclad) USS Essex. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. ![]() USS New Era was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. For other ships with the same name, see New Era (ship).
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