K. L. BRUCE, see KATE L. BRUCE

KAHUHA, see KAHUKEE

KAHUKEE

StTug:
t. 100;
l. 95';
b. 17';
s. 9 k.

KAHUKEE, also called KAKAKEE, and KAHUHA, was a Confederate Army screw 
tug in service at Norfolk, where she was purchased by the Confederate 
Navy in July 1861. She was sent on 5 September to join the forces under 
Commander Sinclair, CSN, at New Berne, N.C., and assist in the attempt 
to drive Union forces from Hatteras Inlet. She became a cause celebre in 
inter-service rivalry

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between Capt. W. F. Lynch, CSN, and Brig. Gen. H. A. Wise, CSA, when the 
former charged that he had been treated badly by the Army in the 
acquisition of KAHUKEE. KAHUKEE probably was built at Wilmington, Del., 
in 1855. and homeported at Plymouth, N.C.

KAKAKEE, see KAHUKEE

KANAWHA VALLEY

Str

KANAWHA VALLEY served in the Mississippi River as a Confederate watch or 
hospital boat. She was present at Madrid Bend, Mo., in March 1862, when 
Union gunboats entered the area.

KASKASKIA

SwStr:
t. 49

KASKASKIA, built in 1859 at Cincinnati, Ohio, was used by the 
Confederates as a tow boat and troop transport in the White River and 
Little Red River area. On 14 August 1863 USS CRICKET captured KASKASKIA 
and the steamer TOM SUGG, the only means of river transportation 
remaining to the Confederates in that vicinity. She was then placed in 
Federal service.

KATE BRUCE, see KATE L. BRUCE

KATE GREGG, see STAG

KATE L. BRUCE

Sch:
t. 310;
dr. 10'

KATE L. BRUCE, also known as KATE BRUCE and K. L. BRUCE, sailed under 
the English flag as a blockade runner from Havana to Apalachicola, Fla., 
during 1861 and early 1862. During the latter half of 1862 she was 
converted to an armed steamer at Columbus, Ga. She was later sunk to 
obstruct the CHATTAHOOCHEE River.

KEENE see MARY E. KEENE

KENTUCKY

SwStr:
t. 500

The name KENTUCKY being commonly used on the Mississippi, we have not 
been able to determine the origin, main particulars, length of service 
or fate of the specific KENTUCKY that rendered distinguished service to 
the Confederacy as a troop transport in November 1861 and March 1862. On 
the former occasion, her Captain Lodwick "exhibited fearlessness and 
energy deserving of the highest praise" for ten hazardous days and 
nights ferrying Major General Leonidas Polk's troops and some Union 
prisoners between Columbus, Ky. and Belmont, Miss., frequently under 
fire, and may have been a decisive factor in winning a battle. Again at 
Madrid Bend early the following March, when Brigadier General J. P. 
McCown sought to hold Island Number 10 at all costs, KENTUCKY dodged 
shells to get the battalions through. The rest of her career is not 
recorded in official records.

It seems clear that KENTUCKY fell into the hands of the Western Gunboat 
Flotilla at Memphis, 6 June 1862-not at Island Number 10, as some 
records state. Although a U.S. Navy survey at Memphis, 10 June had found 
her "very much out of repair," she was being considered for refit as a 
receiving ship at St. Louis the end of October: "She is now advertised 
for sale," having been "turned over a few days ago to the U.S. Marshal," 
the document continues.

A U.S. Army report of 30 June 1862 notes KENTUCKY as "returned to 
owners." The same source erroneously states that the transport was 
captured at Island Number 10. Whether she saw commercial service in the 
interim or not, another entry three years later briefly alludes to the 
tragic end, perhaps from a boiler explosion, of a transport KENTUCKY 
between the mouth of the Red River and Alexandria, La., sometime during 
June 1865, in which at least 30 "paroled rebel soldiers" met death. This 
may have been the same KENTUCKY.

KING (schooner), see WILLIAM B. KING

KING (steamer), see HENRY J. KING