Mingo was a 228-ton stern-wheel steamer built at California, Pennsylvania, in 1859. She was converted to a ram in the spring of 1862 by Colonel Charles Ellet as a unit of his ram fleet. During the naval battle off Memphis, Tennessee, on 6 June 1862, she covered the rear of Ellet's force and saw no combat. Thereafter, she operated in the Mississippi River area until November 1862, when she sank accidently at Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
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24 March 2000