High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Agawam (1863) was a double-ended, side-wheel gunboat of the United States Navy that served during the American Civil War. She was a powerful ship of approximately 1,000 long tons (1,000 t), with powerful rifled guns and a very fast speed of 11 kn (13 mph; 20 km/h). She served the Union Navy in the Union blockade of the rivers and other waterways of the Confederate States of America.