United States. Army. Western Flotilla

found: NUCMC data from Duke Univ. Libr. for Eltinge-Lord families papers, 1856-1871(name not given; Mississippi Squadron)

found: U.S. Naval Academy. American Sea Power Since 1775, c. 1952(on Oct. 1, 1862, the Army turned over to the Navy the gunboats of the Western Flotilla, the command called the Navy's Mississippi Squadron)

found: Dict. of Amer. Hist.,v. 2, p. 384 (Army's Western Flotilla after Oct. 1, 1862 became the nucleus of the Navy's Mississippi Squadron); v. 4, p. 375 (Mississippi Squadron; By the end of July 1861, the Union Flotilla in the Western Waters consisted of three wooden gunboats converted from river packets, under orders from the War Dept. Expansion of the fleet by the addition of ironclads and monitors necessitated its transfer to the Navy Dept., and on Oct. 1, 1862, it was rechristened the Mississippi Squadron)