STC354387 The First Ironclad Gunboat built in America, 1861 (b/w photo) by Brady, Mathew (1823-96) & studio; Private Collection; (add.info.: The USS St. Louis, later renamed the USS Baron de Kalb, was used by the Union Navy in the American Civil War; it was built by Samuel M. Pook (1804-1878) and launched on the 12th October 1861 from Carondolet, Missouri; she was sunk on 13th July 1863 by a Confederate mine in the Yazoo river of Mississippi;); The Stapleton Collection; American, out of copyright.