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CSS / USS Little Rebel

Built by: R. E. and A. N. Watson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Launched: 1859

Acquired: January 1862

Commissioned: 1862

Fate: Captured, 6 June 1862

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Union Service

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Acquired: 6 June 1862

Commissioned: 9 January 1863

Decommissioned: 24 July 1865

Fate: Sold into Merchant Service

29 November 1865

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Characteristics

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Type: Cotton-clad Ram

Displacement: 161 tons

Draft: 12 ft.

Propulsion: Steam Engine, screw propolled

Speed: 12 Knots

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Armament

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3 x 12-pounder guns

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Battles

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Confederate Service

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Battle of Fort Pillow

Plum Point Bend

First Battle of Memphis

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Union Service

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Red River

Fort De Russey

Mississippi River Squadron​

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