 Pork-barrel funnels containing burning smudge pots were the final touch added just before the strange craft was cast adrift to float past Vicksburg on the night of "Indianola"s surrender.Word of this "ironclad" panicked the salvage crew working on "Indianola", causing them to set off the ship's magazines to prevent her recapture.After Vicksburg fell, and following long and difficult struggle, "Indianola" was refloated on 5 January 1865 and towed to Mound City, Illinois, 17 January, where she was sold.