High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Choctaw (1856) was a was a large (1,004-ton) steamer built for the merchant service, but acquired by the Union Navy during the second year of the American Civil War. Choctaw, with her crew of 106, was outfitted by the Navy as a ram with heavy rifled guns and was used both as a gunboat and as a ram on the rivers of the Confederate States of America. Choctaw, a sidewheel steamer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Choctaw Indian tribe, formerly of Alabama and Mississippi, now resident in Oklahoma.

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