I assume it was named for Mansfield Lovell who was the CSA commander in New Orleans during the conversion of the steamboats into rams. I believe I read that it was Lovell who ordered Montgomery to select the boats he wanted and to tell the captains to select their own crews from among the idled boatmen in New Orleans, adding "they are not at liberty to refuse." My third great grandfather was the pilot on the Colonel Lovell. No one in the family knew this until I recently started researching the First Battle of Memphis. When Ellet's Queen of the West rammed the Lovell, Ellet jumped out of the pilothouse to inspect the damage. According to a letter written by a member of the Queen"s crew (to correct an earlier published account) and published on 28 June 1862, Capt. William H. Cable, pilot of the Lovell, shot Ellet. The Monarch then rammed the Lovell, freeing her from the Queen and sending her to the bottom in deep water. The master of the Lovell, Capt. Delancy swam to shore. Capt. Cable, an old riverman, was shot through the head by a sharpshooter while struggling in the water. (Other accounts vary.)