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USS Sallie Wood (1860)
USS ''Sallie Wood'' (1860) was a 256-ton steamer captured by the Union Navy during the early years of the American Civil War.
She assigned by the Union Navy during the blockade of ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America to a number of duties: as a tugboat, a dispatch boat, a troopship, and as an ammunition ship, mostly on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
== Captured by Union forces in 1862 ==
''Sallie Wood'' was a wooden steamer built in 1860 at Paducah, Kentucky. Early in the Civil War, she was acquired by the Confederate government and used as a troop transport on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
After a Union naval force under Flag Officer Foote captured Fort Henry, Tennessee, on 6 February 1862, Lt. S. L. Phelps, in , led gunboats, and , up the Tennessee River seeking Confederate shipping. On the 8th, they seized steamers, ''Sallie Wood'' and ''Muscle''. The former was laden with iron intended for shipment to Richmond, Virginia. Moreover, the sweep of the Union gunboats had compelled retreating Confederate forces to burn three other Southern vessels lest they be captured.
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