High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Colonel Kinsman (1862) was a gunboat captured by the Union Army during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Army with Navy officers as a gunboat until transferred to the Union Navy, when she continued her work as a gunboat until she hit a snag and sank. Colonel Kinsman — a sidewheel steamer — was captured by the Union Army at New Orleans, Louisiana, and fitted out as a gunboat at the direction of Major General Benjamin F. Butler for service in the rivers and bayous of Louisiana. At Butler's request, Rear Admiral David Farragut assigned naval officers to command the Army gunboats; Acting Volunteer Lieutenant George Wiggins was given command of Colonel Kinsman in October 1862.

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