High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Bienville (1861) was a 1,558 long tons (1,583 t) (Burden) wooden side-wheel steamship acquired by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War. She was outfitted with heavy guns and assigned to the Union blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States of America. She was commissioned in October 1861 and soon participated in the expedition that seized future Naval bases at Port Royal and Beaufort, South Carolina. Bienville operated off the Confederacy's Atlantic coast for more than a year, taking part in the capture of positions along the Georgia and Florida shore as well as ending the careers of several blockade runners, among them the steamers Stettin (later USS Stettin) (taken on 24 May 1862) and Patras (27 May 1862).

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