High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Catskill (1862) was a monitor that served the United States Navy during the American Civil War in the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. She continued to serve the Navy after the war's end until decommissioned in 1898 after the completion of the Spanish-American War. Catskill reported for duty at Port Royal, S.C. on 5 March 1863, and for the remainder of the war operated intensively on the blockade off Charleston, S.C.. Catskill was damaged by Confederate gunfire during the 7 April attack on Fort Sumter that demonstrated both the strengths of well-defended fortifications and the limitations of monitor-type ironclads. That began the lengthy series of operations against the strongly-fortified and stoutly-defended harbor.

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