Several Mackinaw boats moved anglingly across the current from the other shore, and a keelboat glided down the river for New Orleans, or to turn up the Ohio for Pittsburg, helped in the current by a dirty, square sail.
"Bring Me His Ears"
Clarence E. Mulford
I wonder where that little keelboat is by now?
"Bring Me His Ears"
Clarence E. Mulford
Here, the arms lie within a wreath as prescribed for Regular general and staff officers in 1832. The entire specimen is cast in brass; the wreath, sun, arrows, canal wall, and hull of keelboat are silvered.
"American Military Insignia 1800-1851"
J. Duncan Campbell