High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Indianola, an ironclad river monitor propelled by both side wheels and screw propellers, was built in Cincinnati, Ohio by Joseph Brown. The danger that Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, whose troops had reached Covington, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River, would capture Cincinnati, prompted Major General Lew Wallace to take Indianola from the contractor before completion September 2, 1862 and have her launched 2 days later. Acting Master Edward Shaw was placed in command of the ship September 18, and she was reported in commission 9 days later.

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