High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Benton (1861) was an ironclad river gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for American senator Thomas Hart Benton. In the spring of 1862, she was present at the captures of Island Number Ten, Fort Pillow and Memphis, Tennessee. During the summer, Benton was in action with the Confederate ironclad Arkansas near Vicksburg, Mississippi, and participated in an expedition up the Yazoo River. She was transferred to the Union Navy in October 1862, and continued her service as the Mississippi Squadron's flagship into 1863.

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