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Argo

(StwStr: t. 99)

Argo was built in 1856 at Freedom, Pa. She operated on the Yazoo River, Miss., during the Civil War and may have been under the control of Comdr. I. N. Brown, CSN, commanding Confederate ships on the river. Argo was burned near the middle of 1863, 75 miles up the Sunflower River, Miss., by the Federal ship Linden of the force of Acting Rear Adm. D. D. Porter, USN.