"The Glendy Burke (Foster omitted the e in his song) was an actual steamboat, built in 1851, that worked the Mississippi out of New Orleans" (Richard Jackson, Stephen Foster Song Book, Dover, 1974, pp. 174-175); "an actual steamboat which plied the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from Pittsburgh to New Orleans" (A Treasury of Stepen Foster, Random House, 1946, p. 131).
~Masato