The Civil War turned the Mississippi into a highway for Union gunboats. By 1870, when the steamboat Robert E. Lee beat the Natchez (and J.M. White’s record), the glamour was fading like smoke ...

Cancel anytime. A popular drawing of the great steamboat race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez. The boats were never side-to-side in their race June 30-July 4, 1870, which the Lee won by ...

The German U-boat fired upon the American steamboat as it approached the mouth of the Mississippi ...

Robert E. Lee and McIntosh’s middle name, Reuben. In Newport Harbor, the paddler serves as an architectural antithesis to sleek neighboring yachts. A stack of beige squares with red trim ...

The Senator is joined by the Sprague, the Bessie Smith, the G.W. Hill, the Hudson and even the legendary steamboat Robert E. Lee — not docked on the levee, but on display on the main floor of ...