Hi,

Many thanks for your insights. The Yankee and the C.S.S. Jackson were one in the same. She is no problem.

I am fairly convinced from studying the erastas US Army gunboats used on the Cumberland River for example that a number of undocumented vessels were in play in the 1861-1863 period. You are right, the names are all over the map. Newspaper and OR accounts re: Equality, the 90-tonner are fairly right on and I would believe that she was not a total loss, but was restored and became the second unnamed gunboat referred to in the Rodgers and Walke dispatches printed at the time of the Columbus takeover and after. She is consistently listed in different newspaper accounts as being present at the time Polk took Columbus. The Jeff Davis is the trickiest of all. She was supposedly captured and sold out with several other ex-Rebel vessels after the battle of Memphis, but that's about all there is on her--that and what's noted in the DANFS.

This whole question of US and Confederate army gunboats deserves alot more study.

Best regards.