USS Montgomery (1861)
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| Name: | USS Montgomery |
| Launched: | 1858 |
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| Commissioned: | 27 May 1861 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 June 1865 |
| Fate: | Sold, 10 August 1865 |
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| Type: | Steam gunboat |
| Displacement: | 787 long tons (800 t) |
| Length: | 201 ft 6 in (61.42 m) |
| Beam: | 28 ft 7 in (8.71 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine |
| Speed: | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
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The third USS Montgomery was a wooden screw steamer in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
Montgomery was built at New York in 1858; chartered by the Navy in May 1861; purchased at New York 28 August 1861; and commissioned 27 May 1861 at New York, Comdr. O. S. Glisson in command.
From June to November, Montgomery blockaded Apalachicola, Florida, off which she captured Finland, lacking proper papers, 29 August. In November, she began patrolling the coast from Washington to Cape Fear River, and on the 8th had a running fight with Tallahassee, the Confederate iron propellor. After temporary duty off Ship Island 2 December, she was attacked off Horn Island Pass two days later by Florida and Pamlico, but was not damaged.
Joining the East Gulf Blockading Squadron 20 January 1862, Montgomery reported off Ship Island three days later. She took schooner Isabel (formerly W. R. King) off Atchafalaya Bay 1 February, then carried dispatches to Tampa, Florida before joining the West Gulf Blockading Squadron to hunt for schooner Columbia off San Luis Pass, Texas, 5 April. Finding the schooner abandoned, Montgomery burned her, then captured a large sloop. Cruising the Mexican and Texas coasts, she helped free American citizens held in Mexico the latter part of April and took British schooner Will o’ the Wisp of the Rio Grande 3 June.
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