Word: greenbriered
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...weather was wicked. It rained and blew as the President, after dedicating a monument at Cincinnati, proceeded down the newly-canalized Ohio River. The river steamer Mississippi, especially equipped for the President's ride to Louisville, went aground, forcing him to embark on the less comfortable lighthouse tender Greenbrier. Whipped by enormous winds, the yellow waters rose up into unwonted waves which battered and buffeted the President's craft most disrespectfully...