Banks Expedition

“The Banks Expedition- scene on the levee, Baton Rouge, La. Contrabands unloading military stores from the United States transport North Star, over the Mississippi steamer Iberville. The Iberville had quite a history in connection with the military operations on the Mississippi. She was taken possession of by the United States authorities on the surrender of New Orleans, and was engaged as a transport during the expedition. She several times ran the gantlet of Confederate batteries and guerrillas. On one occasion she sustained a running fire from a battery of six guns for at least twenty minutes, while passing Donaldsonville, having four men killed and four wounded, one of her engines disabled and her upper works riddled."— Frank Leslie, 1896

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