NEW CLUE IN MYSTERY Rebel sleuth hunts for gunboat
Posted: September 26, 2009 at 6:25 a.m.
William Stevens holds a copy of a print of the Lizzie Simmons, a riverboat converted into a Confederate gunboat during the Civil War and renamed the Pontchartrain.
William Stevens has played the part of a Confederate soldier during Civil War re-enactments. Now he's playing detective, hoping to find remains of a Confederate gunboat burned in the Arkansas River just before Little Rock fell to Union troops.
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