The story of the Mound City now includes a casualty list of those who died and/or were injured aboard the Mound City in 1862 when a Confederate cannon ball pierced her boiler on June 17, 1862 on the White River and scalded her crew to death.

Boiler Explosion on the Mound City.
     Union Army Civil War tragedy, June 17, 1862.

List of Casualties on Board the U.S.S. Mound City.
     Official report of the dead and wounded.

Engraving Source:

Harper's Weekly,
May 10, 1862
Page 300
Sketched by M. Alexander Simplot